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Send Me - live at MHC
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(Lecrae)

a new place for the stuff on the table:

(for Mama to see ...like most of my posts!) Which, as you can see, is by no means out of Greta's reach. :)
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This is she while creating the lovely piece of chalkboard art:

apple green

Apparently it's not safe to take me to the hardware store anymore. :) This time I found a paint called "Granny Smith", and it was perfect for the back stairs. Monday morning, on it went. I love it. (Thanks, Man.)

Sunset on the Lake

{pictures by Caleb}

Van Vac Part V

evening hide-and-seek

Such giggles and squeals of laughter!

September garden

garden bounty

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Greta and I picked these yesterday morning in the garden, and Auntie Livi helped peel them all in the afternoon. Today is tomato soup and salsa bubbling day. :)
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my new paint ~'::

I found this wonderful paint color on Saturday when we were at our local hardware store. It was a lovely gray, with a blue/green color-of-the-sea edge to it. "Ancient gray" they called it. It was just the color I wanted to paint my bedroom. I showed the color to Caleb and said please, and he decided that we could paint our bedroom this weekend since we had Monday at our disposal.



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We picked up the paint that afternoon when we went to the next town to get groceries, and Monday morning, as soon as Greta had us mostly awake, we took things off of the walls and moved furniture out from the walls. Leah and Ethan came over to help and in no time at all my bedroom was transformed. By dinnertime we were done painting, and by suppertime could put everything back.

It is so lovely. The room feels much bigger and airier and cleaner. And I just love the color. (I don't mind the carpet anymore either. :))
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Caleb is wondering why it is taking me so long to post this.
He had told me I could have the computer to post my pictures.
I told him, "Well, it takes a long time for me to do this. I wanted to write a little bit."
(Envision: a tired Greta crawling all over me, ready for bed.)
He wants to know why that takes long. He says to just say, "This is gray paint."
Indeed.
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Marriage milestone marker:
When Caleb was setting up to paint he asked me if we had an old sheet to put over furniture, and we had one! We're officially an old married couple now. ;)

part the fourth

Anyone who doesn't like lots of pictures in one post has permission to skip these... Our week was so full of happy things that going back and looking at pictures helps to soak up the beauties of individual moments and people. ~'::
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my man and my girl, the dock next to the swimming area (...where Dad and Uncle Phil sat with their flashlights to help us see as we tore down the hill from the sauna to jump into the lake!)
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our cabin...seen from the path, love-birds :)

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my petunia, three friends...who accidentally came to supper matching in our jeans and blue plaid flannel :)

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upstairs sunpatch, handwashing clothes in a bucket mid-week

Cloth diapers are a lovely thing...until you have to wash midweek while on vacation and you'd rather not spend most of one day in town sitting in a laundromat putting lots of money in the machines. :) So the alternative is... spending a good deal of one of your days boiling water and soaking and swishing. Mimi did most of the one-by-one scrubbing out at the end. On the line they went at dusk and were crispy clean and dry next afternoon. At least I got to be outside most of the day next to the beautiful lake!

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Greta on my back (good buddy), meal prep

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We got to have a

Bluegrass Concert

midweek by our dear friends with us,

The Bankester Family.

It was so good!

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getting ready for the concert, Mimi and Greta

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These guys sounded so good. Will, Olivia and Ben even got in on some of the fun!

(You can check out the trailer for the Bankester Family's new music video on their website.)
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storytime with Melissa, aforementioned helpful Mimi-scrubbing

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suppertime!

(Van Van '09, part IV)