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Thursday, April 2, 2009

Candy and Jim visit Memphis - March 27-30, 2009

I finally got to paint Bacon's room!
Just two walls blue for his airplanes, and the other two will remain light khaki for now.

Here's one wall done, but still has the tape on the corner.

Here are Candy, Jim and Jack in downtown Memphis. You can see the Gibson guitar factory in the background also.

On Beale street.

Monday, March 23, 2009

More snow! - February 28-March 1 2009

It snowed again, and the flakes were huge-many sticking together.

By the end of the day there was quite a blanket going.
These two are our back yard.

This was the view out our front door.

It stuck for about 3 days and they canceled church.

First Week in TN house -February 2009

Packing Paper soon became my nemesis. As we unpacked more things, the sheer volume of paper was overwhelming. I finally ended up making piles of flattened paper everywhere. I do have to admit that it worked. We had very few damaged or broken items, none of which were in packing paper!

Our neighbor, Cybil, brought us dinner one night and it was delicious! Fresh salad and bread with poppyseed chicken and apple pie for dessert!

One of our first improvements was putting in a programmable thermostat. Since we got one that laid flush with the wall, we needed to cut out the drywall behind it.

Our New House in Tennessee!

Here it is!! This is when we were considering it. The old owner's car is out front. Most of the pictures I posted are just after we cleaned, but before the movers came. If there's stuff in them, it's theirs. I am trying to put them in an order that makes a "tour".

As you enter the front door...green is the breakfast nook off the kitchen.

If you were to take a few steps in and look back....arched doorway leads to the "dining room", which will be Bacon's hang out. The white door is a deep storage closet under the stairs.

View into the "dining room"

View from the "dining room" into entryway and kitchen.

Through the kitchen..this one's a little dark.

Kitchen-before they moved out. But here's the fridge we negotiated to keep.

The view from the breakfast nook into the family room.

Opposite view-Breakfast Nook from the family room.

If you turn left after the stairs, there is a half bath and a long hall with laundry leading back to the garage.

If you continue toward the back of the house in that hall it opens into the Master.

The Master Bath. We are spoiled!
Closet and private toilet room on left, storage closet, sinks and tub on right.

If you go upstairs and left, you are looking into Bacon's bathroom and bedroom. Linen closet on right. (These are a few more before they moved out.)

Bacon's room used to be for lifting weights.

View into his small "walk-in" closet.

In the upstairs hall Bacon's room on right, bonus ahead.

Bonus room

In the bonus room, facing back towards the hall

Across the floating walkway looking into the guest room...

Same view during the inspection.
Hi Jack!

Guest bedroom

Guest bedroom closets

Looking down into the family room and breakfast nook.

Heading back down stairs.

The house after that first snow! We were still in the midst of the closing.

I hope you can come in person to see it! As you can tell, we have room for guests!!

Saturday, March 14, 2009

My last day in CA - December 22, 2008

One of the hardest things about the move were all of the goodbyes and knowing I wouldn't see and learn from all of the wonderful people God has surrounded us with in San Ramon.

Here I am with the Bantley family, our neighbors across the street. I stayed with them for my last week in CA. They were so kind to offer and it was a huge blessing to have a place to sleep , relax and rejuvinate when I had so much on my plate and our house was a mess of boxes. Their care kept me sane . Thank you, Bantleys!