I LOVE that wood floor in the third photo and the wall tile in the last one.
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To be fair, it's likely that the pictures Cat¨ªa saw were when I was tiling a shower.? I'm embarrassed then to admit that we had two other showers working at the time, so it wasn't a giant sacrifice.?
We bought a house that needed work, on purpose, because it was big and it wouldn't be so bad if kids messed it up.? Now that Keith and I are the only ones here, we have four working showers and rooms we don't go into.? It's a very empty nest these days.? But because there was room for kids to get some privacy, away from other kids, it was very good for us.
This is the first picture in my series.? I didn't keep (or share, anyway) a photo of the old tile broken and swept up and hauled away.? This is greenboard and early tiling:
The planning of the crazy-quilt layer.? I used leftover tiles from the upstairs bathroom (the brown)¡ªstarted full-size tiles from the ceiling and floor, and filled in a row between.
Wow.? It has been finished for nearly ten years. :-)? That's the shower I use these days.? It's the one nearest the fireplace, so a fave in winter.
Now that I see all my three children living in houses that aren't this one, they are different in their current lives there.? And that could change, for any of them.??
Kirby's has lots of computers and games.? There are clothes wherever the younger girls drop them, and shoes, and blankets.
Marty's is sparser, and quieter.? His work computer is in one bedroom, and Ashlee uses her laptop wherever she is.? Ivan has a tablet, and the Playstation runs the videos.
Holly lives alone.? The house is nicely decorated (in her own style) and full of plants, and quiet.
What is common in all of their homes is contentment.
Keith and I have the dregs of things they didn't take, and of all our hobbies that we're too old for now, or that Covid restrictions disallow.? We're starting to divest ourselves of old projects, papers, supplies, media we can get to online...
Things change and will keep changing, but contentment is good furniture.
Yesterday's Just Add Light is a bit like that.? A nest of thoughts.? Ooh.? "A little birdhouse in your soul"?
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Tangent ("," by They Might be Giants)
Be well. :-)
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Sandra
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Sandra Dodd