Postcards from the Funny Farm

This blog is about finding your own inspiration. It takes smart readers to hear most of the things I offer. As we all know, pictures are a lot of fun to put on blogs and they can also serve to make abstract concepts like “inspiration” concrete.

The place one lives is one of the keystone determinants of inspiration, as well as mood which is highly intertwined with it. I thought it would be fun to show you my home, the place I refer to here as “The Funny Farm.” The real funny farm is the mental ward and I can guarantee you it is not inspiring there.

BUT … the point I try and make every day on this blog is that anywhere, whether it be the psychiatric lock down ward of a mental hospital or my new magical house, you can foster and create inspiration in your life through psychology. What follows below are many pictures I’ve taken of my new house since we moved in. Enjoy them …

Above is my new pool at the house we got our first mortgage on. I feel a sense of an arrival for many reasons, but watching my babies play in the pool is probably the main reason.

My girls love going in the jacuzzi, even if they can’t quite find their suits. My son, aged 10, has attained an affinity for pool cleaning (seriously!) Lucky me again.

This is a cheap backyaed set we bought for the rental. We will need to upgrade but for now it works nicely.

This was the bathroom nightmare downstairs as we faced it initially. Bank-owned proprties have varied degree of damage to repair we have learned. Sarah got right to work and you’ll see in later photos what a smash-up job she did! It now looks like a model home bathroom.

Sarah’s dad put the center gate on to keep Gizmo from licking my bald head while in the spa.

Sarah got this chandelier FREE on a site called local Freecycler. I think it’s a yahoo group. Anyway, look how nice it is. Again, thank to Sarah’s dad Al, he is a construction tech instructor at our community college so he has all the tools and know-how.

The front (left) of our dream house. As you can see, I’ll need to bring the lawn back as one of my projects. I do enjoy that.

A view of our house from the street. The tree rustles in the wind. When it gets calmer I hope to take the laptop out there feeling the wispy cool summer breeze. This place will no doubt be a source of blogging inspiration.

My liberty is on the right, Sarah’s minivan the left.

Random view of the front room. My piano has been through many moves with me since I was a child. I’ll never part with it ’til I go on to the great beyond then I want my kids to have it.

Nordic Track Treadmill in the “den” area downstairs. It’s also doubling as our workout room. I foresee much inspiration coming from there (already has).

Weights. See if I can do something with these little guns (LOL).

Before pic of the bathroom.

After (wow!)

“Work as if you don’t need the money,
love as if you’ve never been hurt.
Dance as if no one’s watching.”

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