Friday, September 21, 2007
Original---Good thing or not?
When it comes to labeling things "original" around here we are very blessed or is it cursed? I have an original oil painting, that my Mother painted. An original framed and cross stitched Proverbs 31 that my Mother-in-law gave us. We are the original home owners of our house and that is where the curse comes in. We have lived here for 11 yrs. now and most everything that has a motor or requires a level of maintenance is original. We bought new so as to avoid the time consuming house projects of an older home and we don't have any natural talent for fixing things. I went out the other morning to take the kids to school and tried to open the original garage door and it wouldnt budge over 12 in. Well my van can't fit through that so I called for David. It didn't take long for him to discover that the loud bang against the garage door the night before (that scared us up) was a broken spring for the door. A local company came and fixed it for us and left a "reasonable" repair bill and a brochure for a new door. The nerve! For now we are trying to take care of and appreciate all of our originals.
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We bought an "original 100+yr old house 17 yrs. ago when we got married. We are still here! Whew! It has been a loooong project but mostly because my husband likes to dream up things to do(then doesn't really have the time)! Sometimes I think I'd love a new house but I think we have too many memories here!
Julie W
We have one that was built in 1918 and it's got lots of "original" charm too. We LOVE antiques but we're not very handy, so I think we've learned our lesson with the old house thing.
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