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Oh, just go and have a look!

I got Jodie’s Story published and I invite you to go and have a look! It’s linked back to my Family Photo Album, which has a new look as well. In Jodie’s Story, I’ve posted pics of her from her earliest days, her first days with us, activities she’s done with us, and just plain cuteness!

I’ve made more progress on the Janee’s Interiors page. There’s more to do on that. My goal is to get all of the before pics up (mostly done), the during pics posted, the “afters” posted, and then what new things I’ve done lately.

For 2020, this includes our Covid projects: things that we got done because we didn’t spend the time or money traveling this year.

Above is the 2020 arrangement of our Great Room. The sectional in the bottom third of the room is new, we’ve gotten rid of the cupboard and the rust recliner is going to get new life in the bedroom. Jack’s building a new TV stand with a swivel for the TV and display storage.

The top third of the room is another conversation area with our couch, plum recliners, and the little swivel club chair.

The middle area with the circle is our dining/puzzle table. The circle is the round rug on which this furniture lives.

All of the furniture is in place, with the exception of the TV stand which is being built right now. The lighting in the sectional/TV area is very different, very new, and just perfect for us. We will move our ceiling fan from what is now our dining room over to above the TV area. And we will need to reinstall our dining room fixture above the dining room.

I’m also beginning to think about lighting for the conversation area with the couch. We have a kind of arc lamp which we really like, but I’m not sure that it will give us enough light. The interior design class I had spoke very little about lighting.

I really should study lighting more. While I love what we have in the other areas, I just don’t know what to do about the living room.

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More State Capitols Uploaded! Crowds in Awe!

Yes! Check out my Our United States link to see all the progress I’ve made. AFAICT, I have just 18 more states for which I have pictures to post. My latest additions are Illinois, Tennessee, and Rhode Island.

Getting going on a bit of art. Some’s on the computer and some is still in my head.

We’re working more on ideas for our media room lighting. Every time I come up with an idea and bounce it off Jack, he thinks that I’m changing my mind. I have difficulty explaining that I’m developing a plan and formulating ideas, that it doesn’t always just pop out as a finished blueprint on the first lightbulb flash.

Of course, with every idea I mention, he’s talking about how to build it. I’m interested in how to build it, too, because I don’t want to fully develop an idea that’s not possible to execute, but I don’t want him to have the whole thing mentally built before I have my idea fully conceived.

If he read my blog, he’d know more about how my mind works.

I am thinking at this point about installing a wide cedar beam, running horizontally high along the wall. Then, from this beam, we’d have pendant lights hanging down, sort of above and behind us, to act as reading lights.

The individual fixtures would have on/off switches on them and the entire affair would be controlled by a wall switch. I also want some kind of up-lighting from the top of the beam.

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Kentucky is a Commonwealth, not a State!

Yes, I’ll bet you knew that. And so is Virginia. I will leave it to the curious among you to find out the differences between a Commonwealth and a State. Kentucky is now posted! And yesterday, I posted Jack’s pics of Georgia, Virginia, and Pennsylvania.

I’m making headway! As of today, I have 19 of the state capitol pages published. Yay, me! Here’s the link to this project.

I did some adulting yesterday! I had my teeth cleaned, which is, aside from a few trips to Walmart, the most dangerous thing I’ve done, with regards to Covid-19.

I also made an appointment to get Jodie groomed. She’s so tangled and matted that I’m feeling like a terrible dog mom. I don’t know why her topknot gets so matted. Drives me crazy and I just simply cannot comb the mats out without both of us crying.

I still have not gotten brave enough to get my own hair cut.

We’re working a little more on our new living room. I’m setting up a lighting system that I really hope is the answer to our lighting issues. I want lights we can read by, turn off when we are not needing them, and which look great. I want a bit of a repeat of the island lighting fixture with the gas pipe and lights hanging off of it.