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When I had my granite put in several years ago I bought this new faucet by American Standard at Home Depot.  The faucet started leaking a couple weeks ago.  I found the model online and called them because I wasn’t sure what parts I needed to replace.  Did you know that if you are the original owner they will replace any parts for free!!!! Buy American Standard! 😉

 

Williamsburg Faucethttp://www.americanstandard-us.com

I LOVE it!!!

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ChandelierI have a couple of girlfriends, Annette & Bonnie, that I get together with once a month.  We have a standing dinner date the last Tuesday of every month and I’ve known them for over 15 years! This last Tuesday night Annette cooked pasta for us and it was delicious! She makes her own sauce and it was soooo good! So anywho,  she had been given a new light fixture for her formal dinning room and had taken down her old chandelier and stuck it in a box in her garage and now it’s on my family room floor!!!! Oh my gosh!! I love it!!! She wanted to “pay it forward” so she gifted it to me!!  It will be the first project in my new farmhouse and I’ll have to decide to hang it over my farmhouse table, the guest room or my claw foot tub!! LOL (no I haven’t found it YET and no I don’t have a claw foot tub! but still looking)  Thanks Annette!!!!!!!!!! 😉

Deck is Done

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Ok, soooo you may not be able to tell much of a difference in these pics but it does look better!  Old wood is old wood but it’s better looking old wood now.  My lady friends will appreciate my analogy: Tan cellulite looks better than white cellulite!! LOL 😉

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P.S. I loveeee Behr paint and this stain would be awesome on new wood!! The color is coffee.

WOW Me Wednesday!

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Yesssss it’s been awhile! I tried this Baked Greek Chicken recipe last week & loved it!  Of course, I found it on Pinterest!  It’s been so hot here lately that I didn’t want to turn the oven on again, so I decided to use the seasoning as a rub & grill – very yummy as well!

Here’s the recipe for making your own Greek Seasoning- makes 1/2 cup:

1 TB & 1 tsp oregano
1 TB onion powder
1 TB garlic powder
1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp dried parsley
2 tsp paprika
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp nutmeg
1 tsp thyme

Heat oven to 350 degrees.  Coat your baking dish with olive oil.  Place chicken in dish and drizzle with coconut oil or olive oil.  Sprinkle with Greek Seasoning, squeeze some lemon juice over the top and back for 30-40 minutes.  If you decide to grill – lightly coat your chicken with oil, rub on your seasoning, squeeze some lemon and grill. YUM

This is the link I found on Pinterest: http://www.heandsheeatclean.com/2013/06/clean-eat-recipe-greek-chicken.html

Raccoon?!

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RacoonI think I have a raccoon living under my deck!!  A couple years ago I noticed a hole in the lattice work at the end of my deck.  I blocked it up with some bricks and that was the end of that!  A few days ago I saw that the lattice was TORE up, bricks moved and a BIG whole!!  It’s got to be a raccoon right?!  Or a small human- LOL!  I’ll be called animal control! I wonder if they handles this??? We’ll see . . .

“Between You & Me”

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A friend of mine suggested that I check out this blog – LOVE IT and just recently started “following” her.  Here is her link: http://betweenyouandmeblog.com/

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I lover her tag line – ’cause life was meant to be shared’ . . .  and I loved & totally related to her post “A Praying Life” – check it out!