Mrs. Sneed had a large freestanding oak bookcase, about five feet tall and five feet wide in her office. On HGTV she learned about something called 'repurposing', where one takes a perfectly good item and makes something else from it. Or repurposes it.
Where I come in, is that she got this idea to take the large book case, cut it in half, top to bottom, and make herself two swell work spaces from it. So we spent a couple of hours this afternoon cutting the thing in half. I must say, it worked out pretty well.
This is the former right half of the book case. Laid on its side, it will become a work space in the office. That's right after a load of shelves get put up.
The former left side is now holding up the dog food in the backroom.
Son Sneed and Daughter-in-law Sneed were over this morning. We got to kicking around ideas for the new baby's name. Mrs. Sneed has been calling the baby Tessa, which the happy couple nixed as a candidate.
We got to looking at the family bible to see what the Sneed family names for girls have been. Most were 86'd out of hand and who can blame them? Clara, Johanna, Edna, Hortense, Bonnie. Not very modern, are they? I guess we will see, when we see.
One interesting fact about my family tree caught my eye. My great-great-great grandparents were born in 1796 and 1798. They had eight sons and one daughter. The last of their children died in 1919. This family lived in the 1700s, 1800s and 1900s. That is pretty cool.
The Sneed's have a history of having more boys than girls. Of all the generations of Sneeds for which I have records, only one, my great-grandparents, had more girls than boys and then only two to one.
Things in this blog represented to be fact, may or may not actually be true. The writer is frequently wrong, sometimes just full of it, but always judgmental and cranky
9 comments:
In shows like Monster House and While You Were Out, that air on Discovery Travel and Living, they make construction of cabinets look extremely easy.
However, whenever I've had the opportunity to watch carpenters in India, I've seen them slave over a the thick wooden sheets with manual saws, engaging in the tedious mind- numbing exercise of pushing and pulling it back and forth.
Dennis likes the name Denise.
Heather is a nice name--anything to do with nature is pleasant. Tigerlily is good too.
Oh Merle, I posted something Hardwarey for you, but it is pretty blah. I should have done an interior shot .
(but if you scroll down there is a fish.
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I wish someone would repurpose me.
Hey Merle, I have a question. If you were going to purchase a home for $100K how much money would you need to be earning in order to qualify for a mortgage? Today I heard M&T bank is down 23% due to losses from foreclosures. How easy is it to buy a house that is in foreclosure? (I'm not buying one--just curious because the Catskills are full of houses that are empty and some are in foreclosure.) Some were valued at 200K not long ago, and now are selling for less than 100K. Nice properties, too. Could a young couple with good credit buy a house? How much savings would they need?
I ask because I haven't bought a house in a very long time, and always bought the cheapest one I could find & fixed it up. (somewhat)
d. ched - If credit scores are over 680, can get a 97% loan that is government insured. The rate is around 6% at the moment. The mortgage payment including taxes & insurance can't be more than 40% of your gross income. The payment on a $200K purchase price would be between $1200-$1500 depending on the property taxes (some states are way higher than others).
Um, pardon me, Mr. Sneed. :)
Repurposing the shelf was a great idea and it looked like it worked out!
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