We like to have friends over to watch old movies. Up to now, our Library has been the only spot in the house with a TV (see previous posts for pictures of that room). There are a lot of bonuses to having your television upstairs and at the very back of the house --- like it's not the first thing anyone sees when they walk in. You don't see the road or traffic at night while watching. The noise stays up there and not all over the house, etc. On the other hand, you have to go up our tiny little stairwell to get there. You're very far from the kitchen and food/food preparation. You can't have the TV on when you're doing other things like sewing, etc. Well, the pros of having one downstairs seemed too good to ignore, especially when we were able to get the exact same Panasonic Viera Plasma screen that we have upstairs on Craig's List for $50.00. All we had to was order a wall mount and get going . . . and pick which of the two wall options we wanted for the new television.
Over the last two months, we have been making some big changes in the Living Room. This is the original part of the house, with a beam that runs down the middle to separate about one third of the room from the other, though it is all one large room. We have the wood stove in there, as well as two leather sofas, a coffee table, cabinet, hutch, trunk, etc. On one of the four walls is a pair of French doors leading the Front Room, on another wall are two doors leading the Computer/Sewing Room, the third wall has two more doors which lead into the Kitchen, and the last wall has two large three-panel windows in them looking out into the yard and the bird feeding area. All that said, there isn't much wall space at all. We like to have friends over to watch old movies. Up to now, our Library has been the only spot in the house with a TV (see previous posts for pictures of that room). There are a lot of bonuses to having your television upstairs and at the very back of the house --- like it's not the first thing anyone sees when they walk in. You don't see the road or traffic at night while watching. The noise stays up there and not all over the house, etc. On the other hand, you have to go up our tiny little stairwell to get there. You're very far from the kitchen and food/food preparation. You can't have the TV on when you're doing other things like sewing, etc. Well, the pros of having one downstairs seemed too good to ignore, especially when we were able to get the exact same Panasonic Viera Plasma screen that we have upstairs on Craig's List for $50.00. All we had to was order a wall mount and get going . . . and pick which of the two wall options we wanted for the new television. Here is a picture showing the wall in question in our Living Room as it has looked for a couple of years now. The first step was to remove all of the art from the wall. It's always easier to take it down than to put it up! Here is the room with the new TV wall mounted and put in place. It stayed like that for some weeks, because we decided that Pop should build a shelf to mount on the wall above the television. So, he bought the lumber and got to work! Finally, just yesterday, we brought in the finished shelf inside and mounted it! It really looks amazing, and we've all been enjoying just staring at it. The photo above shows the finished thing. All of the fish in display cases are wood carvings that Pop has made in the last few years. You can click the photos below to see them at full size.
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Edward James Eliot
My "favorite" member of the Clapham Sect. Not very much is known about him, but what is preserved keeps a beautiful memory alive of an exemplary Christian man. William Wilberforce Quote:
May I look to Him for wisdom and strength and the power of persuasion, and may I surrender myself to Him as to the event with perfect submission, and ascribe to Him all the praise if I succeed, and if I fail say from the heart thy will be done. For you Jesus Christ came into the world. For you he lived and showed God’s love. For you he suffered the darkness of Calvary and cried at the last, ‘It is accomplished.’ For you he triumphed over death and rose to new life. For you he reigns at God’s right hand. All this he did for you, though you do not know it yet.
Where there is one, there is a majority of one; and when the rights of the majority take away from the rights of the one, then the many will themselves suffer.
~Henry David Thoreau~ I often think of Bag End. I miss my books, and my armchair, and my garden. You see, that's where I belong. That's home. That's why I came back, because you don't have one. A home. It was taken from you. But I will help you take it back if I can.
~ Bilbo Baggins ~ FAVORITE BOOKS & FILMS
Gone With the Wind (Mitchell) Genesis of a Legacy (K. Ham) Prisoner of Zenda (Hope) Scaramouche (Sabatini) Amazing Grace (2007) Bertie & Elizabeth (2002) Farmer's Daughter (1947) Ride Clear of Diablo (1954) Secondhand Lions (2003) Sweethearts (1938) SCARAMOUCHE QUOTES
He was born with a gift of laughter & a sense that the world was mad. The future is to be read with certainty only in the past. Man never changes. PRIDE & PREJUDICE:
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment. PRIDE & PREJUDICE:
Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion. WINSTON CHURCHILL ON
KING GEORGE VI "His conduct on the Throne may well be a model & a guide to constitutional sovereigns throughout the world today & also in future generations." "For 15 years George VI was King. Never at any moment in all the perplexities at home & abroad, in public or in private, did he fail in his duties." |