unique roof and rooflines

Barnesville is on the historic register 

as a Victorian Village.

It is known for its beautiful old homes

and churches.

I thought I would spotlight

the Presbyterian church

today.

  As you can see, it is fairly unique.

Those are red tiles on the roof and stone in the chimney.

Here is a  photo of the parsonage next to it.

This is the home provided for the 'parson' or preacher.

Note the tower.

This is taken from a good distance away 

You can see the Presbyterian church on the right.

The First United Methodist Church can be partially seen on the left.

I don't have a good photo of its roof.

It is bigger than its neighbor

and it's difficult to get a good roof shot

that shows all or almost all of the roof line.

Hope you're having a good week!

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Corner View: one year ago; five years ago

I have shown some of these photos before,

but am repeating them because they illustrate

today's corner view's theme/topic.

Almost a year ago we were packing to move from the tiny bungalow

smack dab on a busy highway/town street

to the farm house on eight acres outside of our small town.

 Five years ago, we were boxing up things to take  up to our small town. I had  been living
there by myself for seven years.  Mike retired from his city job and was finally moving up to be with
me.  We had to leave most of the furniture behind because we were selling the house.

We didn't need the furniture until we moved into a bigger house

and it was three years before that happened.

We have been in the farm house for almost a year.

Almost five years ago, we had our last dinner together with old friends 

in Cincinnati.

We still talk to them and they have been up to visit,

but we have also made new friends and renewed friendships here.

Almost a year ago, we settled into our farm house.

George and Mike resting in our new home.

There are no heat vents in the kitchen,

so we have a Vermont stove.

Scruffy loved curling up beside it 

in those bitter cold days we had 

this past winter.

It will be a year in November 

since we got Ginger from a husky rescue.

She is one and a half

and is a Husky red and white.

She has adapted well to our family

and we all love her.

(Even the cats!)

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Almost a year ago, we got a bedroom

 in which we could walk around the bed.

Almost a year ago, Scruffy and George discovered

that the outside world is wonderful!

For more corner views,

head on over to Francesca's.

                                      

Boating and tubing with the kids and an adorable duo

We went boating with my son and his three kids.

He has his boat docked at Seneca Lake Marina.

We had the Father's Day buffet at the marina restaurant first,

then headed out on the water.

Peyton is 11 and is the only one of the three who likes to tube.

Addison and Grandpa Mike

Mike, Peyton, and Doug putting the tube up and the rope away.

The three 'munchkins': Peyton, Dillon, and Addison

We had a great day.

We went to the lake beach and the kids tried out the beach's

new floating, blown up obstacle course.

I had to go in the water to see them,

so I don't have pics.

I'll sign off with this adorable duo.

I hope you have a great week!

Serene Nature

This is at the edge of a very old cemetery.

Five-Minute Friday: Messenger

Gut feelings---that's my messenger.  I know what needs to be done and for whom.  Often the message is a surprise and I'm hesitant to obey.  What if they think I'm nuts? What if they really don't like or want or need this?  What if I imagined this? What if; what if; what if?  I can 'what if' myself until the 'moment' has passed.  Then, regret hits and the guilt that I have let God down, because I firmly believe He's the one poking me in the gut.  I've done this countless times with cards.  Cards still are special to a lot of people. Short notes written on the card or on note paper tucked inside it up the 'meanfulness anty' (my made-up term) considerably  They tuck it away with the other special cards and notes to peruse years down the road.  I have ones dating from before junior high and I'm 60.
I'm better at listening when I'm not in school.  I tire easily when teaching and reserve myself for my students.  So friends are sometimes neglected.  I choose to ignore the poke in the gut.  I'm listening now and several cards with small gifts tucked in them as well as notes are making their way to some friends.  Some have already arrived and been gratefully acknowledged.  I don't feel silly now. . . well. . . as silly.

Read more on "Messenger" at Five-Minute-Friday at Lisa-Jo Baker's blog.

Corner View: Dinner Party

For the Corner View dinner party,

I would bring LaDonna's(a friend) Baked Beans

and 

Jackie's(a friend) chocolate sheet cake.

Below are the recipes.

 The pictures were found online,

 and are not of my actual creations. 

I am often asked for the recipe of these baked beans,

which I gladly give.

The secret is one pound of bacon!

LaDonna's Baked Beans

3 hrs. covered at 325

uncover last 30 minutes.

If still a bit runny, broil for a few minutes--

watch it though, it burns quickly!

2 cans of 1 lb 13 oz beans

I get Bush's Spicy and then a can of Bush's Regular

l lb. bacon cut up in pieces

2 med. onion in chunks

2 T Worcestershire sauce

1 cup ketchup

1 cup brown sugar

I usually just dump in the ketchup and then dump a handful of brown sugar.

I've gotten so I can use the lid of the Worcestershire sauce--I go by looks.

Stir all together and put in oven in a 9 by 13 pan or dish.

Jackie's Texas Sheet Cake

1 C cooking oil 

1 C water

4 T cocoa

2 C flour

2 C sugar

1/2 tsp. salt

2 eggs

1/2 C sour cream

1 tsp. baking soda

Bring oil, water, and cocoa to a boil. Remove from heat;

add dry ingredients.

Beat 2 eggs in a bowl; add sour cream and baking soda;

mix well.

Add to chocolate mixture.

Beat well.

Bake in a greased jelly roll pan--15 by 10 by 1 inches in a 375 oven 20-22 minutes.

In the meantime make icing:

1 stick butter

1-4 tsp. cocoa ---you want it med. brown

6- 8 tsp. milk

3/4 - 1 box confectioner's sugar

1 tsp. vanilla

1 C chopped nuts ( skip this and lay pecans on top after I'm done icing).

Bring 1st 3 ingredients to boil.  Remove from heat and add confectioner's

sugar to desired consistency.

For more corner view recipes,

check out Francesca's beginning on Wednesday morning.

Our bungalow is rented!

The 1915 Craftsman bungalow, that I lived in for 5 years alone

and then almost 4 with Mike, is now rented.

We have one of Mike's partners

handle the renting for us for a commission.

It is now rented to a man with the fracking industry.

His wife and two little boys (ages 18 mos. and 5 yrs.)

are up here from Alabama for the summer.

We do have a basement and a screened-in back porch

for them to play in.

But the bedroom is tiny and it looks even tinier to me 

without all our 'stuff'. 

The walls are bare

except for two clocks and picture in the bathroom.

I've shown the house before,

but I wanted a record of it as it is now.

I do include pics that some of you have seen before

to contrast now with when we were living there.

It was a good home for us and me especially,

but I do not miss it in the slightest.

The kitchen.

Mike still has work to do on the woodwork and he plans to take down

that tile (it's the only section of it left).

We were going to paint the newer cabinets 

and sand and stain the in-set sections of the antique cabinets.

However, my heart never got into that,

so neither did Mike's.,

and now that it's a rental, we have two less renovations

to worry about with renters.

 The dining room.

 The living room with Mike's
loveseat and sofa bed couch
from  Cincinnati.

 

The one and only bedroom.

The chests belonged to my parents.

We are now using two family antiques at the farm house.

Mike refinished the doors when we first bought the house.

The bathroom.  We got a new shower curtain---actually it takes 3 to go around the claw-foot tub which is dated 1920.
Mike completely gutted this bathroom and updated it except for the tub.  I refused to part with it, so Mike took it out, sanded, repainted (it was burgundy and gold---ghastly) and
reinstalled it.

This corner was much cuter when we lived there,

but the cute stuff is at the farm house now.

  This shelf and hooks unit was in the farm house.  We didn't like or need it where it was.
We didn't want to leave the antique one at the bungalow and it is going in the upstairs bathroom
here at the farmhousewhere this one was.  The antique one only has 3 hooks which is plenty for us.

This picture belonged to my parents.

It is not a favorite of mine and hadn't hung in Dad's last two apartments.

But he kept it in his storage room and then we stored it.

Now it is useful once again.

We had a special picture in this spot and the hook was still there.

The hallway.

Notice the empty shelves.

Mike took off the doors and put them in storage.

The glass is original to the house and irreplaceable.

He will put the doors back on when we decide to sell it.

Here are glimpses of the bungalow when we lived there.

The first few are from Christmas 2012 and  then 2011.

In the first picture, the living room is especially crowded due to the tree

and extra seating.

We got 10 people around this table and a person could squeeze/walk around the table.

    My computer armoire where I did a lot of my school work is in the rear-left corner.  It is now
in a room that is just my office and studio.

This chest of drawers kept a lot of my school stuff.

This  was my "read, grade, and relax" (and sometimes sleep) corner.

As you can see here, 

the shelves were once full.

I also would hang my clothes on the hall closet door

every night

to be ready when I awakened the next morning.

I just wanted to record all this.

Hope this new week is wonderful for you

and full of healing for some folks specifically.