LCD TV Stands compared to what we had through the years

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Wow! When I see the current selection of LCD TV Stands and think back to what my family and I had through the years, it makes for a huge contrast.

For one thing, flat screen TV's were an unknown factor when I was growing up. We always had those huge televions that required lots of room on a TV stand that was usually wooden in order to hold up such a big monstrosity.

I know I've mentioned in one of my blogs one time about the large TV cabinets with a built-in black and white TV that was owned by my paternal grandmother and my in-laws.

When I got one of my first apartments, my father actually built a large bookshelf with was capable of holding up my large TV plus a VCR and videotapes galore. I was sorry to see it go simply because he put so much love into making it. But when I moved to a small log cabin, there just was not room for it or that large TV anymore.

Now, my husband and I have one of those large flat screen TV's in our living room residing on one of those pretty LCD TV Stands. We love the look a lot! It is so much fun to sit there and watch some of our favorite shows.

Every now and then, as I watch a show on this TV, I think back to the black and white TV that my folks and I watched for years. We had to sit it on a wooden cabinet. We only had five channels total. We also had to get up from our chairs in order to change the channel as remote control TV's were not yet invented.

There are some things about the past that make me feel nostalgic. Those old kind of TV's and those old clunky stands are definitely not one of them.

What about you? What are some of your television memories? Feel free to share in the comment section below.

Home Office Renovations Day 3

My home office in our log cabin is being completely re-done. On day 3 of the renovations, the two handymen tore out the rest of the floorboards. It had rained in the night; therefore, there was a lot of damness in the room. Before they headed off to their other job, they indicated they would purchase some heavy plastic to line the room with before laying down the new floor. They also found a pipe that leads to the outside that needs to be closed off. Additionally, they found some problems with some of the logs. This may prove to be a much bigger job than any of us originally anticipated. I think we are going to look like that Hoarders Show for a couple of weeks. The end result will be both beautiful and functional. It will be so worth it!

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Home Office Renovations Day 2

My home office in our log cabin is being completely re-done. On day 2 of the renovations, the two handymen started to tear out the floor boards. They quickly discovered why the room bowed toward the center. Several of the logs holding up the floor were broken. They also realized that this job was going to take them longer than they originally expected. Sigh! In any case, I am so grateful and excited that I am going to get my dream home office.

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Office Renovations Day 1

Check out the home office renovations going on. I am so excited to get my office re-done. This is day 1 of the renovations. This is just one of the pictures from this day.

To see the rest of the pictures and read all the descriptions, please visit my hub on Hubpages.com called Ask DJ Lyons: Office Renovations Day 1.

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Office Renovations Before Look

Check out the home office renovations going on. I am so excited to get my office re-done.

To see the pictures and read the descriptions, please visit my hub on Hubpages.com called Ask DJ Lyons: Office Renovations Before Look.

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Self Improvement Gifts 5 Offers 100s of FREE Personal Growth Related Products, Services & Memberships

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Because it has become so popular, this year Stephanie has enlisted the services of Carolyn Hansen, renowned fitness professional, and Self Exteem Expert, Dr. Joe Rubino.

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Healthy Eating Tales #1: Gala Apples and other Foods

After reading the introductory tale called “Healthy Eating Tales: Introducing Tommy, Tammy, and the Food Pyramid Kids,” please read Healthy Eating Tale #1: Gala Apples and other Foods.” This will detail what happened the next morning.

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Healthy Eating Tales: Introducing Tommy, Tammy, and the Food Pyramid Kids

This is the introductory Healthy Eating Tale detailing the competition between two fraternal twins named Tommy and Tammy and a Food Pyramid Boy versus a Food Pyramid Girl.

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Sitting in Grandma’s Kitchen

As we approach the holidays, I am bombarded by memories of my maternal grandmother and other now deceased relatives. I was looking at some pictures of barstools and other similar type chairs. When I saw one stool that is fairly similar to the stool you see in this picture, some poignant memories came back to my mind’s eye.

I called my mother’s mother Grandma Alice. From the time I was small, she lived in San Francisco in a two-bedroom apartment. My family and I went to visit her when I was eleven. When I was twenty, I spent the summer with her before attending San Francisco State University for fall semester of my junior year in college.

One of my favorite memories was sitting on a combination bar stool and step ladder in her kitchen. Hers was light yellow. I would sit on this stool and watch her cook. We would share stories and anecdotes with each other all the while.

My grandmother was a really good cook. So I would not only watch her cook, I would also take a few cooking lessons from her.

Years later, she moved to Tennessee to spend her last remaining years in the same city as my mother. That stool was one of the pieces of furniture that she kept. After she passed, I was given that stool.

I placed that stool in my kitchen. When the man I ended up marrying started courting me, he would sit on that stool and watch me cook. It brought back happy memories of my beloved grandmother.

Unfortunately, I no longer own that stool as I moved into my husband’s small log cabin. There just wasn’t room in the cabin for most of the furniture that I owned. It was kind of a wrench when I had to let that stool go. It felt a little bit like I was saying good-bye to Grandma Alice all over again.

Of course, there is always room in my memory bank. So when I see stools like the one pictured above, I can mentally re-live those days when I sat in Grandma’s kitchen on her yellow step ladder stool watching her cook.

I would love to hear some of your memory tales about stools and other pieces of furniture in your past that evoke the presence of people you love. Thanks for taking a walk with me down my particular memory lane.

Funniest Toddler Quote: First Watermelon Party

Toddlers can say and think the funniest things. Listen to what happened when my younger brother attended his very first watermelon party.

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