Chillin' Sam

Sam is loving the gorgeous day!!!!  Just a chillin'!

Apartment Therapy

I've taken to reading lots on minimalism.  Not so much the idea of having only 100 things but the idea of enough is enough!  I can't tell you how many things I've returned in the last few months.  I ask myself "Do I really NEED this?"  While reading great blogs on minimalism I happened upon a neat website Apartment Therapy.  They have something called a Small Cool Contest.  Click here to see some of the fun entries for 2012!

The shot above is from this article.  LOVE the space.  I could so live in an area that size.  If there were cool studio condos available here I'd rent or buy one in a heartbeat.  I really don't need all 1350 sf of my newest condo :)

Enjoy!

Winter Wonderland

Heavy wet wonderful!  Photos pulled from QC Times as mine were awful :)

Follow up to Joplin Tornado

Many of you know that last May when Joplin had their destructive tornado that I went in search of my father.  I didn't know that that was where he lived.  We had been estranged for some time.  We knew before we left that his home was in the direct middle of the tornado's path.  Well...I finally got to see Dad.  He moved to Wichita Kansas and bought a home there.  Still tornado alley mind you!  I drove down to visit  last September a few days before I moved.  What a wonderful, healing trip for me.  Below are a couple of photos taken there.  One with Dad and his dog and one with me, Dad and his wife.  Enjoy!

Whew! Long time no see!!! My new home!

I have been very, very absent!  My last posting was when I listed my condo for sale in June.  It sold in under 2 weeks and I moved in Sept to a one story condo with underground, heated parking.  LOVE it!  No more stairs...oh yes...an elevator if I'm too lazy to walk up one flight of stairs from the parking garage to my unit :) Here are a couple of shots...btw...I finally got my brown accent wall :)  Loving the open floor plan!