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God's Glorious Handiwork – And Some of Man's Creativity

May 2nd, 2010 · 3 Comments · A Home Complete, Creating A Home, Inspirational, Reflections, Tom & Me

Our spring has been beautiful beyond description.
And since Tom’s been home since his surgery a month ago, we decided to brighten up our back porch and deck with some hanging baskets of flowers, as we sit out there several hours a day, some days.  This is our view from our old white wicker furniture nestled [...]

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Story Tellers 4 – The Rest of the Story

October 26th, 2009 · No Comments · A Home Complete, Families, Story Tellers, Tom & Me, Tom's Family

If you will look below at Friday’s post, you will see the photo of a master potter’s hand-thrown, kiln dried and glazed vase, with lid, given to us by Kay Nguyen, a member of our extended family.  I asked you each to try to guess what the motif is that she carved around the jar.
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Story Tellers 4 – Who Can Guess?

October 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · A Home Complete, Photos, Videos, Reflections, Stories, Story Tellers, Tom & Me, Tom's Family

The beautiful pottery jar with lid below was hand thrown and decorated by Tom’s son-in-law’s sister, Kay Nguyen, a professional potter.  She lives in Houston where she practices her art and works with children and others.
It is kiln fired and glazed.  It has an interesting motif carved in the clay which is carried out [...]

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Story Tellers 2 – View From My Kitchen Sink

September 25th, 2009 · No Comments · A Home Complete, Photos, Videos, Reflections, Stories, Story Tellers, Tom & Me

What is your view from your kitchen sink when you are standing there working?  (Or not working, as the case may be, in the case of you fellas.)
I don’t know about y’all, but I spend a lot of time at my kitchen sink.  A lot.   At least, it seems that way sometimes.
Of course, I used [...]

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Story Tellers 1 – "Texas Angel"

August 28th, 2009 · No Comments · A Home Complete, Reflections, Stories, Story Tellers, Tom & Me

I’m starting a new series today I call “Story Tellers.”  The premise of this series came from a comment Tom’s daughter, Kristine, made one time several years ago when visiting with us in our home.
We were showing her something and telling the story behind it.  She turned to us and said, rather in awe, “It’s [...]

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Good Medical News; Good to be Home

June 24th, 2009 · 7 Comments · A Home Complete, Health, Medical, Perspective, Tom & Me

We’ve just returned Monday evening from five days away and were so happy to be home, you know?  I’ll show you some photos below of some of the reasons we so love coming home.
We saw the neurosurgeon in Birmingham (a gorgeous city, by the way – at least the south side where we were) on [...]

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The Great Road Trip of 2009 – Saturday, April 4, Part 1

June 15th, 2009 · 5 Comments · A Home Complete, Dee's Family, Families, Perspective, Philosophical, Reflections, Tom & Me, View From the 80's

April 4th – The Girls (& Tom) Go Shopping
Saturday was our second full day at home together and another day full of fun, too, thanks as always to Mom.  It was a busy one, but not too.  We tried our best to rest and relax in between "fun stuff," but then, it was all fun!  [...]

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