Beginning Days of my Retirement

 My first project was washing the blinds in our master bath. We actually have two large windows, but by the time I finished the first one I decided the second one could wait for another day.

I went overboard I think. It seemed the easiest was to clean them was to totally remove them.

So I washed them in our soaking tub, dried them and laid them out on my bed. 

After that, I had to thread them back through the strings. Way too much work. 

My goal to clean all the blinds will be over a long period of time. I won't remove them either. 

I saw on Facebook an advertisement for a birthstone ring. I ordered one with all of our birthstones on it. It was $30. Now I see why. It is really a beautiful ring and I'm pleased with it except it is SO SMALL. It is sterling silver so at least it isn't just a piece of junk. I wish I would have ordered a 5 1/2 instead of a 6. I forget what size ring I wear.

I'm slowly sorting through treasures.

This was made by a woman my Dad taught on his mission back in the 40s.

At the time, I don't think she was baptized, but years later they met again when my parents went back to the same area to visit. 

Some years later when my parents were celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary, this woman sent this doily to them. Dad had it framed.

Here are a couple pictures of my parents when they were in their 20s. 

I ordered these little bears from Home Interiors so many years ago. I used to buy all my home decor from this dealer. I asked Linda Nyland to write our names on the bears. I can't part with them. It's like my people. I haven't had them hung up since we moved here, but I'm still keeping them.

I'm pretty much known within our family to be at the sink washing dishes all the time. When I found this little card from Scott, I laughed that he already noticed I washed a lot of dishes.

I found my Primary bandelo. I was sure proud of myself back then. I could memorize anything.

When Scott was a preschooler, he attended Speech classes. Each day they would work on a new sound and make an index card with a picture of it. For "K" they made a card with a little hole and a tissue pulled through it. It was always one of my favorite cards in his box. I saved that index box for years and I think I finally parted with it. When I came across this picture that I had drawn as a little kid, it made me laugh.

I think I will stop here for the day. I don't want my post to be too long. I'll be back with more in a week or so.