We had an absolutely wonderful time at Thanksgiving. Spent the day with mom & dad, my sister, brother, and their families. My parents have recently started inviting my in-laws to our family gathering. It makes it so special to have ALL my family together. My mother and father in law are alone, and I really appreciate my folks having them also! My husband and I agree that we have the greatest in-laws in the world!

Friday night, we had everyone over to our little Sand Flat farmhouse for a huge fish fry, with hush puppies, fries, fried pickles, and all the trimmings. It was wonderful for me, because it was the first time that alot of my family had seen the farmhouse EVER! Below are a couple of before photos. This is my kitchen - I tore all of the upper cabinet doors off and left them open. We painted the kitchen a pale yellow with a soft light green woodwork and beadboard and trim with white doors. Sounds "loud" but it works. I love it - Here's before, and I'll get some new photos of some of the 'after' on here in another post, but you can see how terrible it all was...

Next is my living room and then the awful bathroom. We had to tear out the entire bathroom including the floor right down to the dirt to re-do it. HAd to cut a hole in the outer wall to get the new shower unit in. I wanted a claw-foot tub, but the bathroom was so tiny, we had no room at all for that, so I'll have to settle for that.

Well, that's all I have time for today. I'll get some new photos on here of some after shots of the house. It's looking good. I bought one of Margo's (of robomargo, robolady, robojunker) crystal light catchers that she made for my house and she's saving me a little "chandie" that she made, too. I plan to hang it outside in my new functional garden shed which my husband re-did for me - it was a falling down rotten shed, and he's got it all fixed back up to use for a garden/potting shed for me. Can't wait for spring now!!!! I'm going to have a garden for the first time in many years! Where we've lived for the past 17 years is all solid red clay and not much good for anything, so I'm looking forward to having a garden in aptly named "Sand Flat" community this spring! The soil is great for everything from roses to vegetables to pecans. Plus, there's plenty of compost and cow manure all in my garden area that I should be set for a long time to come! We'll be eatin' good next year!