These are pictures of my mother’s house. Mom is 73 years young and these are shots of her home. I do not know exactly how long she’s lived here, but longer, it seems, than any other place I know of in Spokane. The house is not large by today’s standards, but Ron told me it is around 1400/1500 1800 sq. ft. The lawn is kept up by the community, or did she say she has great lawn service at a reasonable price. I don’t remember. The house itself was custom built for the previous owners. I believe she told me that this other owner was in a wheelchair. I also believe she told me that the wooden floor was found beneath carpet which she and Ron removed. But you know? Details have escaped me. I do not seem to recall things as clearly as I use to. There are vaulted ceilings in the living room and she has wooden shutters made for the front windows. These are lovely.
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Living Room (The fellow looking back in the picture is Ron, my mother’s husband.
Another shot of the living room:
The ceiling in this living room is vaulted. I think mom said they were 16 feet high. (The rest of the house came in at 10 feet high. They were tall.) But what makes these ceilings so amazing is that mom painted them by herself. My mother and heights. You’d never know she had a fear of them. She told me she made Ron hold the ladder while she was up there applying paint. The following picture is a shot of the dining room looking with the kitchen on my right and the living room on the left:
The kitchen; it is pretty smalled compared to my kitchen here. Gave me the feel of being in the little house’s kitchen when she and I were working in it. But for one person cooking and an occassional Coke from the frig, it works just fine. Walls are sage green. Plates over cupboards are N.Rockwell pictures.
The master bedroom is quite large. The two chairs you see in the picture belonged to my mother’s mother. They sat in my grandmother’s living room back in Erie when I was 13 years old. Mom had them reapolstered. I asked mom if she ever used them, ever read in her room sitting upon them. She said no. But they do look lovely.
What would a retired person’s home be without a bathroom. The main bathroom was just your typical bathroom, nothing fancy. I took a shot of it for the color and decor, but decided against posting it. After all, it just looks like a bathroom. The picture below though is interesting for it’s great, big tub. A Philip size tub. The shower to this bathroom is located on the left of the shot. I was unable to get it shot because this room is very large. I do not know if the tub gets used. It looks like it could be very difficult to get in and out of if I were 73 years old. But it is sure a lovely bathroom.
How about a parting shot? Of course, it was taken during the day, not the night like the other pictures. Here’s me and mom. And like you, yes, I love my mother.
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Sam emailed the link to this little critter last night after I told him we might get to ride the monorail into the Seattle Science Center on Monday. The plan? Go see Batman at the iMax theater there. Should be a gas. (Am I dated by that bit of slang?)
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PocketMod: The Free Recyclable Personal Organizer
The PocketMod is a small book with guides on each page. These guides or templates, combined with a unique folding style, enable a normal piece of paper to become the ultimate note card.
You’ve got to see this to believe this. What a fun, widget driven little piece of Origimi to play with. If you’ve got a printer, you’ve got to give this little device a play with. Perfect for people who carry paper scraps with notes written on them in their pocket.
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GuerrillaMail.com » Disposable Temporary E-Mail Address
This website provides you with disposable e-mail addresses which expire after 15 Minutes. You can read and reply to e-mails that are sent to the temporary e-mail address within the given time frame.
Perfect for those forums you think you will only visit once and need to have an email set up where they can send you a registration. That way you do not have to have your real email address floating around in some moderater’s database.
Oh, and if you want that really cool camo background GIF, here it is:
Guerrilla's Background Tile - Click To Download Full Size.
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I never thought it would happen, that I would find pieces of furniture that seem to reflect me. The pieces that have captured my eye are called accent pieces. One of them is done in that antique finish look, very nice. Both pieces feature hand painted details on them. These pieces of furniture are warm and delightful. Now if only my bookcases would show up. I’d be able to unpack this office of mine…
Here is a picture of a Storage Bombe Sette made by Powell. Lovely piece. As you can see, Rex is holding open the seat section. He wants to put guest shoes inside. I’m not so sure I want to do that. Click on the picture will take you to Imageshack where you’ll be able to see a bigger picture.)
Powell Village Garden Storage Bombe Sette
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The close up shows the nice hand painting on this piece:
Storage Bombe Sette Detail
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The next piece is an end table in that antique finish. It was manufactured by Stein World and also has hand painted ornamentation on it. The sage color is close to the color of our Broyhill sofa. Rex and I think the end table will look terrific with this accent table.
Stein World End Table
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I am very tired tonight. I would like to be able to do some work on this site, on the part about the software but right now I’m going to call it quits and just type a few words to my partner in pen and let it go at that…
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