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Hi y'all. I am writing a quick post here at the yellow house where we are on vacation. We are attempting to remove wallpaper from the master bedroom wall. Wallpaper is of the devil. The person who built this house applied the paper directly on the wallboard. So when we pull the wallpaper off it tears off the wall board.

Did I mention in my frustration with this I ate an entire bag of Peanut M&M's for lunch yesterday? I am awesome I know it.

We worked all day yesterday with that chemical gel stuff and got maybe three wallpaper panels off the wall. At that rate the room might be painted by summer!

Did I mention every bone in my body aches. I told Joe he must have thrown me down the stairs. He said funny he felt the same. We are wallpaper wimps.

I cussed the contractor of this house up one side and down the other. I learned how to do that from working as a nurse in the state prison system. God forgive me.

Did I mention we have house guests arriving for the weekend at four o'clock? I must start cooking very very soon.

The guests are bringing wallpaper steaming stuff! Yay!

Here is a photo of the house in our skimpy snow and then the horrid pink wallpaper and the ugliest curtains I ever saw.

I painted the great room, kitchen, and den last year when we bought this house. We left the two bedrooms that are in cahoots with the devil (wallpapered) to be painted later.

If I am absent from the blogs I am in the pink room pulling paper off the wall y'all!

Happy New Year

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Joy to the Bloggers

grace surrounds us

Olive

Snow in the Deep South

Snow in the Augusta, Georgia area at Christmas time has not happened since the 1850's. Technically it still has not happened on Christmas day since then because it started snowing this morning at around eight am, the day after Christmas. That is okay. We will take it. It snowed once this year last February. Yes, we can recall every time it has snowed in these parts.

It is almost six pm now and it is still lightly snowing. Joe reports the front yard is now white. The three of us and our neighbor went shopping early this morning in the snow and it was so pretty. We went to church on Friday by the way and were transported by the the music and the message of True North Church.

For those of you who are inundated with the white stuff please do not laugh at my photos for we are proud of the least little amount we get!

CC is delighted by winter in general and snow in particular.

I pray you all had a blessed time with family and friends. We had a quiet Christmas day of cooking and a bit of visiting.

We have plans to paint the master bedroom here at the yellow house. We get distracted easily so we shall see if that project makes this blog.

grace surrounds us

Olive

~little church~

On one of my now not so daily walks I was delighted to discover this little church by the side of a gravel road. It is a scale model made by the father of the man who owns the house in the background. I am told he places it by the gravel road every Christmas and hangs a star above it. The star is barely detectable in two of the photos. I love small country churches and photograph them all the time.
Edited: Some of my readers this morning and CC's grandmother did not realise this was a tiny church. Tiny as in doll house size. Perhaps 18 to 24 inches tall. Olive does not wish to confuse.

 I went kind of crazytown in Picnik today. That is the only snow we will see. For my friends in the Great Britain I know you are covered with snow and are having travel issues for the holiday. I do wish you safe travels and pray for your safety.

I am linking with A Southern Daydreamer for Outdoor Wednesday.

grace surrounds us

Olive

~little trees~

We have an enormous tree that I may not photograph until 2014 and a little kitchen tabletop tree on the bar which I jokingly call the autopsy table. I have been fussing with gingerbread cookies for this tree all week. One hard earned tip, chill the dough for two days at least. One day for me was not chilled enough for my dough to roll out properly. The second day was soooo much easier. I made extra cookies to give away to our neighbors. All my cookie cutters are from garage sales. The star and diamond shapes are from vintage cookie cutters.

The next tree is a smaller one that I believe to be vintage. We bought it at an estate sale last weekend. It is marked Japan on the bottom and has signs of age on the berries. It looks perfect on the table with the funky lamp.

We paid five dollars for this little tree and  I felt that was a bit pricey but had to have it. Maybe I can talk CC into taking pictures of the large tree with her swanky camera for me.

I am linking with Laurie at Bargain Hunting (and Chatting) With Laurie for Some of My Favorite Things Saturday link party because Christmas trees are some of my favorites. Do visit Laurie who is definitely another favorite of mine.

grace surrounds us
Olive