(My Poetry Friday post is below this one)
Susanne at Living to Tell the Story hosts a “Friday Fave Five” in which we share our five favorite things from the past week. Click on the button to read more of the details.
It’s been a few weeks since I’ve participated, so a couple of these things are from the weeks in between today and last time.
1. Getting these hung:
I had gotten this little cabinet on sale half price a while back at Hobby Lobby, plus a little extra marked off because the shelves inside were missing. Evidently it was meant to sit on a shelf or tabletop, because it had felt on the bottom and nothing to hang it with on the back, but I didn’t have a surface to put it on and preferred to hang it on the wall. This last weekend my dear hubby went and got glass shelves cut for it and put hangers on the back and hung it up for me. I have in it just some odds and ends knicknacks mostly given to me by my family– my other shelves were getting too crowded (even for me) and I wanted another place to put them.
This little rose shelf I just love, but the hangers on the back were oddly placed, and it was hard to get level. But my husband figured it out. There is a matching one, only facing the opposite direction, on the other side of some other little wooden curio cabinets. Don’t tell him I said this, but I am not quite sure now I like them there. 🙂 They seem to kind of get lost in the wallpaper and I am wondering if they’d look better on a solid background. But I’ll leave them for now. I think they’re really cute.
2. A fixed washer and a husband who knows how to fix things. After doing a couple of loads of laundry, the washer just stopped agitating and spinning — with a load full of wet clothes — and my husband was out of town. When he came home a few days later he figured out the switch that makes the agitation and spinning shut off when the lid is open was not making the connection it needed to in order to start up again when the lid was closed. He disabled it, so now it doesn’t stop when the lid is opened, but I don’t usually open it during the cycle anyway. Thankfully I didn’t have to make a run to the laundromat in the mean time.
3. Winning basketball games! Jesse’s JV team had been steadily improving but hadn’t had any wins until the last couple of weeks. Now they have two! That’s always encouraging.
4. Root beer. Because of a heart rhythm problem I have to be decaffeinated. At home I drink Diet Decaf Pepsi, but you can’t find it in restaurants (the decaf, anyway — you can find diet drinks). I am not crazy about Sprite and 7-up but will drink them some times. But root beer is also decaffeinated! And there are just a few places in town that sell it. Every now and then when I am out running errands I like to pick up something to drink and regularly pick up root beer at drive-throughs. Oddly, I am not that crazy about it at home — the bottled kind seems almost too sweet there. But I like having that option when I’m out. (I know, I know, I could and should drink water….but I like the fizzy stuff.)
5. Lotion! Without it I would be a dry, cracked, itchy, flaky mess, especially this time of year.
Thanks, Susanne, for starting and hosting this!
Stray Thoughts 
I wish that I lived close to a Hobby Lobby. I like your little cabinet. That rose shelf would show up better once you put a chunk of color on it–like a plant or some tall knick knack.
Love the basketball picture, since I too have a basketball playing son! 🙂
Also, I love lotion this time of year. And root beer is always a nice thing, especially when you need decaf!
Oh and I think it’s great that hubby could figure out the washer! My dryer broke recently and the 3 hours laundromat visit was not fun. 🙂
It’s always nice to get things “done” around the house. Right now I’m looking verrrrrry forward to “done” – and I’m not even started! lol!
I’m not a big fan of rootbeer and never noticed if it was around in the world or not until Mom came to stay. It’s her favorite soda. I don’t buy it at home because we try not to encourage soda drinking — but whenever we are out that is what she gets if it’s available.
I know the loopiness of which you speak with your MIL. Mom started out like that I would say maybe 7-10 years ago. For several years she drove us crazy when she would fall into a loop and tell the same story (always from long ago) sometimes 8 or 10 times in a row before we could distract her to something else! She (fortunately or UNfortunately) is well beyond that now. She no longer remembers any of those stories UNLESS someone like my darling Krysti actually feeds it to her! (in which case we want to kill Krysti!) Now Mom just goes from loop to loop – but her loops are about the size of the bands that go on braces! They now consist of just asking the same question over and over. Oddly, she doesn’t do this to ME as MUCH as she does it to Dennis.
I love that little cabinet from Hobby Lobby! It looks perfect in that picture!
I also require much much lotion this time of year. I just picked up a bunch of it at the semi-annual Bath & Body Works Sale.
Enjoyed your 5. Have a great weekend. Thanks for visiting my blog!
The shabby rose shelf is so cute. I haven’t seen anything like that.
I have lotion in different spots. I have to use it everytime after I wash my hands.
Glad you didn’t have to wring out that whole load of clothes!
Have a great weekend.
The basketball photo reminds me of a lot of years of my past!
Great Fave Fives!
I love Hobby Lobby, and that shelf looks great on the wall. How smart of you to hang it there.
I’m a root beer fan, too. I particularly enjoy Mug and IBC. Those are my fave decaf brands.
Oh I agree that it is so wonderful to have a husband who can fix and mount and nail and straighten and cut and install things! What a blessing! Love your little wall cabinet and rose shelves. Have a wonderful weekend Barbara.
I enjoy these Fave Fives you do. A little more insight into who you are. Love the cabinet.
That little cabinet shelf is adorable with your little bears in it.
Yeah for hubby’s who can fix things. I’ve got one of those too!
That’s a great photo of Jesse playing ball. I really miss going to games.
You lucky duck!! It’s great when a hubby can fix things around the house! My guy has lots of strengths, but being a repair guy isn’t one of them! When we were first married, he broke a lamp trying to change the bulb. I knew I was in trouble!! 🙂
Hope you’ve had a FFF! Dana
You have a very good husband, Barbara! God bless! 🙂