~ Honestly? The best part of the Super Bowl for me? Billy Joel’s piano playing during the National Anthem. Diminished and augmented chords – I really liked his style of playing. And I was thankful that he sang it straight. All the note-bending attempts of some singers to be cutting-edge are wearisome.
~ A family of cougars moved onto the hill about three blocks from our house. They have been harrassing humans; there were three reports last weekend. It is my goal to hike to the top of this hill on my 50th birthday. I am by nature a wuss. You see the problem. Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!
~ This week my son and I will finish reading through the Latin Psalms. We started in September 2004, reading about 10 verses a day. We don’t get it all; we read through the English translation too. Nevertheless, certain phrases are embedding themselves in us.
~ I refuse to buy boring postage stamps. My current favorites are Baseball Sluggers. I was so sad when they ran out of Mary Cassatt stamps. Which ones do you like?
~ If you had a guest bedroom on the southwest corner of your house, with oak floors and one southern window, which colors would you recommend for the walls and accent? I’m floundering at making a decision. Monochromaticism has been a previous decorating sin I wish to repent of without swinging to garishness. Do you have a guest room? What color is it?
A Living Pencil 
Oh, I love buying and using the different postage stamps!! I bought the Hershey Kiss ones and will include them in Valentine cards for my daughters. I use the *Happy Birthday* ones when I send a birthday card. I bought some Ella Fitzgeral ones for DD#4 who sings a good sultry mezzo-soprano. And John Wayne ones for DH!
No suggestions for your decorating from me… Sorry I’m just too boring and unsure of myself. My bedroom walls (SW corner) are vanilla. Western facing windows which get lots of afternoon sun. So hot that I keep the shades down. And no guest room……..yet 🙂
Blessings from GA, Dana
Sage is restful with shades of mellow reds (cranberry) or chocolatey browns as an accent.. I once saw a blue and white questroom with Dutch delft and Chinese/ Brit willow patterns (plates and curtains) with blue and white plaids and solids throughout. (gorgeous) My husband just got back from visiting a friend overnight in GA. He said the best part of the guest room was that it was well stocked with Francis and Edith Schaeffer books as well as other Christian literature.
About the couger problem, I am going to climb the hill, with Dad’s 38. that is.
For protection of course.
I couldn’t agree more about the national anthem – I said to my husband how nice it was to hear someone just SING it!
Postage stamps! I love ’em! In fact, I just bought a card of Kisses this morning. And I can’t wait until March / April (can’t remember which month) when the Longfellow stamps come out. I’d LOVE to find one of the large promotional posters by USPS to use in the classroom.
Between decorating an envelope with a snazzy stamp and my own address label, I might have what my mama would call “tacky” letters!
Lots of sun in a SW room—I would take advantage of a less-used room and be bold with decor. I’m thinking red (I like the cranberry idea!) walls above a chair rail and a cranberry and ivory vertical stripe wallpaper below. I would use a nice area rug in cranberry and an ivory bedspread. And definitely a bookcase. Oh, and a large enough bedside table for an appropriate sized reading-in-bed lamp and space to lay books. And an overstuffed chair with a good reading lamp and table to hold a cup of tea.
Are you getting this room ready for me? (Just kidding!) I would love to think that one day I would visit you. But I would stay in the room reading—we’d be up all night talking!
My computer is in the shop getting liposuction, so SS won’t be up and running for a few days. I’m at the library now, but will be back in due time!
Janie
I am not much for Southwestern motif myself- especially the goofy coyote or flute-playing semi-deities, but the color scheme is a nice half-step away from neutrals. Also, you could wait for guests to figure out the irony of it being in the SW corner of your house….
When we took industrial psych class they told us yellow cheers people and green calms them, so it may help if you think about what you would like your guests to feel whilst they are in the room- will it be a place you come in and visit with them, or just where they crash after talking the night away in the breakfast nook, library/diningroom, or whereever?
“You could wait for the guests to figure out the irony of it being in the SW corner of the house…” – R1 that busted me up! Thanks for the laugh.Janie, you and any of the other commenters are more than welcome to my guest room. Maxine, there will be at least one large bookcase, maybe a smaller one too. I love cleaning up after visits and seeing a book on the dresser that was pulled off the shelf. Dana – boring and unsure of yourself are two ways I would NEVER describe you. <grin>
Do you think since I’m the most likely to come use your guest room, you might give my ideas preference? Tee! Hee! My suggestion is light sage green on the walls w/ cream and sage vertical stripes on the lower half. I already told you I love the print you have on the wall. I might rather have some of the books that are in your bedroom bookshelf, in the guest room!!! Maybe an “egg crate” pad on the bed mattress….
I am sorry I missed the Super Bowl, but only because I missed Billy Joel. Remember Danny Hartman getting us all into him? Smile.