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is where my story begins
Michael Bublé - Home
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrXb0AhXNno
I will be gone for a while, on my vacation. Wishing you all a wonderful summer.
Your Dream Home I always promised you Honey ..... :)
Canadian Badlands Drumheller Alberta
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film, early October 2012
Three and a half years ago I moved to Stuttgart to study Visual Communication, and this is the first film photo I took in my new home. Yesterday I gave my final presentation on the bachelor project I’ve been working on these past months, which means that the stressful times are finally over. :)
This was taken before she drank the contents of the bottle (which she LOVED). She was so amused with just the bottle itself. Doesn't take much to please our Jet.
Hudson, Ohio, USA, December 2007.
I'm standing next to the commercial range in our new house to provide scale. This moment was the only opportunity I'll ever have to lean on the griddle without burning myself; from here on out, Husband will be frying onions there every hour of every day.
(Please note that the pink walls will go.)
A Stove With A House Around It
In our new kitchen, at our new house, Hudson, Ohio, USA, February 2006.
...we hung our maps of Tasmania in the foyer. Husband is also wearing his AUSTRALIA jumper today -- and I was going to make ANZAC biscuits, but I got tired.
But I am not too tired to play some two-up.
Hudson, Ohio, USA, April 2006.
And by "last, " I mean tomatoes number four, five and six of six. It was a bad tomato-growing year.
Hudson, Ohio, USA, October 2007.
Posing with the glorious blue flame, trying to keep my hair from catching on fire.
In our new kitchen, at our new house, Hudson, Ohio, USA, February 2006.
Cute little bird's nest cookies -- chocolate cookies with ganache, coconut and Cadbury candy-coated eggs.
(Recipe from marthastewart.com)
Hudson, Ohio, USA, March 2008.
I love how these blue Cadbury chocolate eggs look on top of this cookie.
Hudson, Ohio, USA, March 2008.
God gave us an incredible gift for our 10th year wedding anniversary! Our home was listed for sale on our anniversary and we were able to close yesterday (2 full weeks early!)
Our FIRST Home!!! :)
Many older married couples can remember like it was yesterday the first home they lived in after marriage. After a half century, my wife and I still talk about ours.
Our first home was not like this deserted mobile home we observed recently stuck way out in a field by itself. But like this mobile home, ours wasn’t anything that ever graced the front cover of “Better Homes & Gardens”.
When we moved in, the first night we discovered there were previous tenants, scores of them. Four-legged furry mice that you could hear scattering about in every one of our four rooms. The next morning, my wife encouraged me to stuff every hole and crack I could find with steel wool. Then I fashioned screening over every furnace vent before we eventually got some relief.
But this “Mouse House” as we named it was everything to us. It was the location where my wife and I began our lives together, where our love for each other became greater than the square footage of that little farm house as we dreamed together of our future that seemed limited only by our imagination.
We gathered other people’s castoffs for our furniture, stripped and painted chairs, tables and made do with secondhand appliances. In the cold, wind-driven winters on the open plains of southwestern Minnesota, the incessant north winds buffeted our poorly insulated house but we laughed, wrapped ourselves in warm blankets and drank hot chocolate. Some early winter mornings we could see our breath as we got our first cups of coffee ready in our small kitchen.
Summers were better. We could take walks in the dying embers of colorful sunsets, holding hands as we walked and planned for a life we hoped would go far beyond our several acres of weeds, spotty grass and trees.
In those quiet moments in approaching darkness as crickets began their nightly concert, we felt we could never be richer even though we had to struggle to pay the $50 monthly rent.
The Mouse House was not grand by any measure but looking back at it we realize it was a symbol of two people uniting into one life, having a love that was not affected by having precious little of this world’s goods. That extremely modest first home wasn’t just where we lived but where we discovered happiness is not found in physical things but in the hearts of two people who could call any place home.
I wonder sometimes when I hear young couples planning to get married who want to start off with having a house at least as good as the one their parents have. Perhaps there is a step in life learning that is better experienced when the developing of relationships with your spouse is about all you can afford.
(Photographed near Stanchfield, MN)