Reminiscing on Thursday

I was looking through old photos and came across these. These pictures are from our old house. I loved that house. It was built in the 70's and had the coolest retro stove. The house was small, only a two-bedroom, but the rent was only $400.00 per month. We did a lot of work to the house, painting, new floors, removing the orange shag carpeting--yikes! Things seemed so much simpler then. No mortgage, no property taxes, no insurance......those were the days :)
He's the niece, Kayla, dressed up as Dorthy, in front of my retro bistro sets. I decorated my kitchen like a 50's diner. Still have the bistro set, but needed something bigger for the new house, so we stored it. Here's Kayla again, this time dressed up as Shirley Temple. You can kinda see the retro stove. The oven didn't work well at all and I would either burn everything or undercook. But it looked sooooo cool!

Here's Maya lounging in a sea of plastic bags. He was around 5 years old in that photo.

This was our beloved Sylvester. He was probably about 4 years old in this photo. He loved to lounge in the window perch and watch the birds and squirrels eat from the feeder. He died suddenly about a year after we moved to The Creek. He was only 6 years old.

This is our beloved Cal picking out paint colors for our new house. He actually chose the "Spring Bud" green color that adorns our living room, kitchen,hallway and loft. Without his help, the walls would probably still be "contractor white." I had looked at so many paint samples by that point, my head was spinning. He was a big help.