Friday Five

1. What is your most prized material possession?

Well, okay, this depends on whether you consider a pet a material possession or not. To me Bandit and Willow are the "fids," "feathered and furred children." We "own" them, but not in the way you own a car or a house. They're family.

So my most precious material "possessions" (I can't pick just one) are my books. However, if you view a pet as a material possession, Bandit is "it."

2. What item, that you currently own, have you had the longest?

Hm. Hard one. It's one of the books, certainly. Probably one of the Lassie Whitman books.

3. Are you a packrat?

Unfortunately. I inherited it from my grandfather. He had an entire barnlike garage full of junk. Gardening junk, mostly; he was Italian--gardening was his "thing." Mine is paper.

4. Do you prefer a spic-and-span clean house? Or is some clutter necessary to avoid the appearance of a museum?

I would like a "tidy" house. I would like to say to friends, "Hey, c'mon over and play some Scrabble" without having to do a mass vacuuming and repositioning of books and magazines. I would like to quit stumbling over Michael's bags, model boxes, computer parts, dishes, and dog toys in the middle of the floor.

On the other hand, one of those overly clean Martha Stewart looking homes would drive me mad. They show them on HGTV. Where are the books? Where are the magazines? Where are the stuffed animals? Where are the cozy throws? Do these people do nothing but sit up straight in chairs and sip tisanes from china cups?

5. Do the rooms in your house have a theme? Or is it a mixture of knick-knacks here and there?

Ideally they all will some day, but not so rigidly as to become a cold place. The master bath already has a "garden" theme. (It has a pseudo-outdoor-tile vinyl floor and is painted a summery sky blue, so I added clouds, hummingbirds, little topiary trees around the baseboard, and a "Tuscan window" wall treatment on one wall. It's our own little Italian garden.)

The spare room is yellow with sunflowers, blue and brown accents. It's supposed to look country. The kitchen is decorated with mostly apples and some cute cows. Someday we want it mint green with apples and cows around the soffits. The hall bath is developing a lighthouse theme. A pale blue-grey paint is sleighted for that room. (Anything to tone down those salmon pink...ugh...tiles.)

And the living room cum library is our retreat room, so naturally it's done in shades of autumn: reds and browns, autumn leaves, acorns, and foliage to trim. I'd like to paint it a pale orange someday to continue the theme. (Hmn. Having gone seasonal, maybe we could manage a wintry theme for the bedroom...mmm. That would be [pun intended] cool...)

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