Beth and Steve’s daughter recently bought a house in Long Beach, a darling older home with lots of vintage charm. Sara and her boyfriend Dave along with kitty Lui are in the process of making it home, tackling project after project all while both working and Dave going to school. They must be young because just watching them do all this at once wore me out in the brief time I was there!

While at Sara’s, she allowed us to interrupt her painting of the kitchen cabinets long enough to clean her charming vintage chandelier. We didnt’ think to take a before photo of this awesome multi-gemed light, but as you can from the after pictures WOW!

Sunday was the yearly Pumpkin Carving Party held by Beth and Steve’s youngest son Luke and wife Diana. 13 pumpkins in all were carved, candy and food was in abundance and a good time was had by many. My pumpkin is the lady’s face to the left of the spider with web. It won the catergory “WTF” or “What The Face”. Beth was the judge. She arrives after all the carving is done so she doesn’t know who carved what. I just have one question….how does a Master Genealogist qualify as a Pumpkin judge? (Does it sound like I disagree with winning the WTF category-you’ll never know!)

The first few days of Beth’s recuperation were spent on the wonderful drug Codeine. Ask any arthritis sufferer and they can probably recite their favorite pain killers in alphabetical order and list their somewhat dangerous and in some cases amusing side effects. In Beth’s case while taking Codeine she became even cuter, jumbling her words and smiling while doing it. Car became couch, clock turned into TV and sentences were short. So endearing.

Mr. Wilson, sometimes known as Steve, or Hey You, is the King of All Things Cool. I always look forward to seeing what fun tools or toys he will have added to his collection. For Christmas Steve received a tower tool box, a multi-drawer stainless steel Kobalt. The glare from the steel box as I opened the garage door almost blinded me. I could have sworn I heard music from 2001 Space Odyssey playing. After I put on my shades we marveled together at all the drawer space, sub drawer space and the secret entrance way in the back to the eternal playground known as WilsonPlayland. Even cooler is how one could spend an entire day in the lower drawers building a complete computer system from all the parts stored there. Ah yes, all things are possible in Wilsonland.

Thursday in Wilsonland ended up being an “I’ll Arrive When I Darn Well Feel Like It” day with the local cable company. Turns out an Internet scheduled 8 to 10 appointment complete with a printed out confirmation sheet, followed by a phone call to confirm said appointment means squat. The King stayed home from work waiting for the cable company to arrive during the appointment time, and when they didn’t show he handled the 45 minutes on hold to find out why in true form by multi-tasking. He had lunch, engaged in a lively conversation with Patty and Beth, checked that everything was in order if and when they decided to show up and completed work on his computer. A 1:30 meeting finally pulled the King away, which was really no problem because apparently there is no such thing as any kind of a morning appointment. Right around 4:45pm the ball started rolling and like a stone on a hill going downhill it picked up speed. Right up until 7:00ish. Then nothing. 8:30 and you could hear our stomachs manically screaming “its dinner time”. Skip to 11:30pm, final score: 2 out of 4 TV’s working, not bad. Not good though. Friday plans include another visit from the cable company. Appointment time? Between 8 and 5.

I’d like to introduce you to the newest members of the Tinkerbell family here at the Fuller household. They reside in the guest room, where this 19″ Tinkerbell doll joins 2 Chatty Cathy’s and a few other antique dolls, 1 of which was given to me by my good friend Beth. She knows how much I love dollies.

Hallmark came out this year with 2 Tinkerbell ornaments and since I collect them I had to get both. I love this one with the starburst as it is very different than the others I have.

This Tinkerbell sitting on her mushroom is similiar to one I have from a few years back. The detail on these is just amazing. So, there you have. 3 more Tinks. And I am sure more to come.