The Circus Comes to Town

Our new house was tented for termites this week. All houses in La Mirada have termites. It's a given and everyone has to have their house treated for them when they sell their house. But this is a very good sign. Tenting your house is about the last thing one does before moving.

We are having our house tented this coming week as well. So, I'm pretty excited to be moving along at this pace, finally. I'm hoping and praying we can be moved by Labor Day weekend. It will be close, but I start my Adult School job that week and I really want everything finished before I have to go back to work. Well, we'll see, I guess. Moving in will require the obvious labor etc., but we are also going to put in new carpeting upstairs in the master bedroom. It's a huge room but it has blue shag carpeting. Yuck. I remember when I liked that stuff, though, so I should behave myself. So, our plans are to put in new carpeting, do some painting, not sure how much, and some tile in the bathroom.





My nephew is a designer, so he's helping us with colors etc. We went Sunday to pick out carpeting and paint. He's going for a Tuscan look upstairs and if we like it enough, we may go for it throughout the house. We'll have to see. I like the earth colors and I think the house lends itself towards that look on the inside. The outside of the house has to be lightened up a lot. The dark green trim is too overbearing. If we replace the garage doors with generic white garage doors, it will really make the house look more modern. They still have the old wooden, spring type doors. When we take the big tree out front out, you'll actually be able to see the house! It really hides everything right now.

New pool

Well, the pool in our new house has been totally rebuilt. I was hoping
they would do a bit more to the deck, but they just fixed the edges
which were very bad. Eventually, I hope to resurface the decline and
surround it with a fence.

GOD AND SOLZHENITSYN

The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good. (Psalm 53:1)

When Alexander Solzhenitsyn died last weekend, I was reminded how this brilliant man of letters explained so simply and accurately how it was that 60 million perished following the Bolshevik revolution in his country.

"I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: 'Men have forgotten God' - that's why all this happened."

He continued: "All attempts to find a way out of the plight of today's world are fruitless unless we redirect our consciousness, in repentance, to the Creator of all: Without this, no exit will be illumined, and we shall seek it in vain."

These words are etched indelibly on my heart and soul.

Filling the pool

It's pretty hot today and Elizabeth was tired of of so I told her to
ahead and go in even though we are filling it back up. Just got done
washing it down yesterday.

Moving Day is Coming

Well, things are looking up. Our sellers are planning to move out on the 15th of this month. Faster than I expected, but very good for me because I need to move before school starts. Got so much to do now. Got to find a mover for one. I'll be so glad once we are finally moved. Mary has worked very hard on this for us. She's been great. Let me know if you ever need a good realtor in the So. Cal area.

Bob's Big Boy

I was reading in the newspaper that Bob's Big Boy was going to be coming back into California. Right now there are a few here, but it once was one of the reigning diners in California. I of course always liked it because I was a Bob and a big one at that. :-) As I read the article, I all of a sudden had a rush of sadness come over me because in all the many break-ins we've had at my school recently, I didn't remember my Bob's Big Boy bank being in my office anymore. It didn't have much money in it, but it had a lot of sentimental value to it. Some 20 or 30 years ago one of my youth, Denise Montoya, gave it to me. She bought it for me while we were eating there after church one night. I used to frequently take the kids there after church. They had great Sundays and burgers too. Now it is gone. Might even have been collectible, being so old. I liked his big happy face and he kids liked it when they came into my office as it sat on my bookcase. No more Bob's Big Boy bank. Maybe I can find one on ebay.