It’s the first Friday of autumn! Right on cue, the leaves are starting to turn colors. We’re not quite into fall temperatures yet, but I know they’re coming! I’m pausing the busyness with Susanne and friends at Living to Tell the Story to focus on the blessings of the week.
1. Successfully getting my email to work. I Last week I stupidly opened and answered a suspicious email. I didn’t click on anything in the email, but I changed my password just to be safe. I had no problems on my computer or iPad, but for some reason, my phone wouldn’t receive or send email. After struggling with it for several days and looking up solutions online, I deleted the account from my phone and re-added it. That did the trick, with no loss of emails or notes.
2. A newly painted dresser. My dresser has been in sad shape for many years–banged up, dented, discolored, and even a little mildewed in places. It had colonial-looking drawer pulls with dust in the crevices that I couldn’t get out. We bought it from a college student for my second son’s things when I was pregnant with him, so it’s been around a while. Jim said we could get a new one, or he’d refinish or paint the old one for me. I looked online at several options and couldn’t find just what I liked, so I asked him to paint it. It’s not finished yet, but I am excited about the transformation already.
3. Drawer sorting and purging. Since I had to take everything out of the drawers anyway, it was a good time to reorganize them and get rid of several things.
4. Odds and ends tasks. This week has been a little quieter than the last, affording some time for smaller non-urgent tasks like cleaning out my purse. I also enjoyed an excursion to Hobby Lobby for a few needed things. I didn’t have Thanksgiving on my mind when I went, but they had their Thanksgiving stuff on sale 40% off, so I got the non-food items needed for that day.
5. Celebrating friends’ 50th anniversary. The children of our pastor emeritus and his wife threw them a big party for their 50th anniversary. It was sweet to celebrate these dear people. We also really enjoyed the conversation around our table. Plus it was fun to see the venue, the Grand Victorian. We were in the nicely decorated barn rather than the main house. The grounds were beautiful with a pond by the driveway as we came in.
This was the ladies’ restroom.
How is your September wrapping up?
Stray Thoughts 
Your husband is amazing, Barbara! How very kind of him to give you the dresser you wanted, regardless of the avenue you chose. I hope you will post a picture of the finished project when it’s done. I know it will be lovely.
What a beautiful venue for the 50th wedding anniversary for your pastor emeritus and his wife! Their children did a lovely job of remembering their parents.
Hope your weekend is wonderful!
I can’t wait to see your “new” dresser. Kudos to hubby for taking on that project.
And yes…good time for purging and organizing. Glad you could do it.
I had 3 rainy days this week so Wed and Thurs were mainly spent doing chores around the house and going through Autumn decor. I did get rid of a few old things I no longer wanted and that were falling apart. Some things went into the bag for the thrift store.
I love Autumn although our temps have stlll been summer-like. Today is downright humid!
Happy weekend.
WOW, that is one fancy 50th anniversary party setting! How fun. I am excited to see a picture when your dresser is finished. I love the whole story of it, how you “made do” rather than just going out and buying new. That’s my kind of recycling 🙂 Glad you had a quieter week. My coming week looks pretty good (although, I often say that and then things fill up, haha).
Isn’t it nice when a simple solution solves your technical woes?
How nice that your husband can refurbish that dresser. Hope it will serve for many more years.
I know how much you love quiet weeks! Just feels good to catch up on smaller tasks.
What a lovely celebration put together for a fancy fiftieth. Very pretty venue with plenty of interesting details to look at.
Sounds like an interesting week. I’ve had some suspicious texts lately which spook me but I’ve blocked them. I’m glad you got things solved with your email.
The Grand Floridian celebration for your pastor’s 50th looked beautiful and oh so elegant! Lovely colors. I’ve been to the Grand Floridian Resort at Disney World so that part of your post really caught my eye at first. Certainly not the same places
I think it’s wonderful to refinish your old dresser. I think that those kind are the best and probably better made.
Have a great weekend!
Hi Barbara, nice that your husband can redo your dresser. I was at Hobby Lobby twice this week and got a few things for Thanksgiving. The anniversary celebration was so pretty! We took a cruise for our 50th anniversary and I would love to go on another one. Have a nice weekend!
Fortunately we had a great celebration for our 50 years wedding anniversary with the mayor and even Napoleon’s soldiers playing a music ! But on the photos I see now that he was already sick.
I had a similar issue with my email last week when I opened an email which certainly turned out to be a scam. I am still having some issues with my email acct.
What a sweet thing for Jim to do to refinish your dresser. And yes, it’s a great opportunity to do some clearing out.
I had a similar issue with my email last week when I opened an email which certainly turned out to be a scam. I am still having some issues with my email acct.
What a sweet thing for Jim to do to refinish your dresser. And yes, it’s a great opportunity to do some clearing out.
What a lovely venue for that celebration and so many lovely finishing touches. Looking forward to seeing your dresser when it’s finished.