Bloggy Tour Of Homes Is Here! ! !

Well, friends, it's finally here! BooMama's Bloggy Tour of Homes is happenin' as I type this. At last count there were 154 links on BooMama's post of bloggers participating in the 2006 Bloggy Tour. I think BooMama is blown away by the number of bloggers who are throwing open their doors to welcome us in to see their homes. I have already visited some of my friends I have linked in my sidebar who are participating and I was warmly welcomed and impressed with everyone's beautiful homes. There's still time to participate if you'd like to join us. Just get your post ready and link to BooMama's site.
Welcome, friends, come on in! I'm afraid my tour is going to be rather short today. I only have 3 pics to share due to some unforeseen circumstances. If you read back several posts, you'll see that I have been very busy with all the cleaning and purging, and the jam making I've been doing lately. I didn't get a chance to clean up my kitchen and living room to company standards before today, and now it's raining. Raining means my hubby is in residence today. Ever tried to clean house with the hubby in residence? It ain't happenin' today, folks. So......I'll give you the pics I have ready, and try to get the others done as soon as I can and share them.

That first photo above is the front of my apartment. If you click on the pic and enlarge it, you'll see that even enlarged, my apartment is tiny by most standards. There are only 3 windows. The one you see to the left of the front door is in the living room/dining room. The one on the left is in my bedroom, and the back bedroom has a window. That's it for windows and natural light. It's 2 small bedrooms, kitchen, bath, living room, a miniscule inside utility room, and small (closet-size) outside storage room. As you enter through my front door, my entertainment center is on the right, and my recliner and couch is on the left. My sewing machine is just beyond the couch, behind my dining room table. No separate dining room for me, and my tiny kitchen wouldn't even begin to accomodate a table and chairs. If you proceed straight ahead, you go into my tiny kitchen. Mama said you couldn't cuss a cat in there without getting hair in your mouth. My washer and dryer are in the kitchen, too, so just use your imagination until I can get some pics in there. There is barely room for me to cook in there by myself, and two people have to hold their breath to squeeze by each other. Have you noticed that I keep using words like small, tiny, miniscule, little......

In the kitchen, you can go straight ahead again and out the back door, or make a left into the inside utility room. You remember, the utility room I had to empty completely out so the landlord could replace the leaking water heater? This is the same room with all my groceries and pantry stuff put back. It's a little out of order, but back in place nonetheless.

Back through the kitchen, if you turn beside the dining table, there's a short hallway. From the hallway, you can go straight ahead into the tiny bathroom, or left into the extra bedroom, formerly Jessica's room, or right into my bedroom. When Jessica moved out, I took over the spare bedroom as my own personal dressing room and blogging space. I moved all my clothes and shoes in there, along with my clothes in the dresser and the stuff off the other dresser.



I got a shot of my computer desk and chair so everyone could see where I do all my bloggin'. If you click on that pic, you'll see all the clutter you want to ever see in one place. It may look unorganized to everyone else, but I honestly know where everything is and I can lay my hands on anything I need in just a second. The nice lady who gave me this hard drive will probably recognize it in this pic. For those among you who are especially observant, you might have noticed that I have 2 hard drives and 2 monitors. That's because my digital camera and scanner are too old to be compatible with this Windows XP, so I use the old computer for those functions, then copy to a disc and transfer to this computer. Hey, I'm just grateful to have the things I have. It's worth the little extra effort to load and scan my pics. This setup won't be valid for very much longer, because I'm going to be moving my desk back across the room where I used to have it. Jessica insisted on moving her bed a while back, which meant I had to move my computer desk. I really liked the way I had it set up then, so now that she's moved out I will be moving everything back to the way I had it before.

Well, I think that's about it for my Tour Of Bloggy Homes this time. I'll try to get the pics of my kitchen and living room/dining room done soon. Be sure to visit BooMama for the complete list of links to those participating. Hope you enjoyed the glimpses of my life here in Bay, Arkansas. I'm off to try to link my post on BooMama's page.

Happy Weekend, y'all!!