Life is rarely perfect. As I looked around my home this week I noticed the cracks. In the corners of walls there’s plaster cracking and paint peeling off, showing the effects of age. We’ve been in our home over 20 years, a warm happy place of comfort, peace and joy. But time takes its toll, some things have been broken and left, some have been neglected. Things break, need replacing or fixing.
It’s a bit like life. Left too long without love and care things can crumble, relationships can fracture and people can drift apart. Sometimes without even realising.
That’s why it’s so important to maintain. We extended the living area over 14 years ago. We’ve painted feature walls vibrant colors, replaced essential items yet there seems to be always something that needs fixing. Or something that is neglected. Life is so busy.
More recently, with helping hands, we knocked down the balcony on our decking which was rotting and replaced it with a new wooden balustrade and wire decking.
The centrepiece of our lounge room is an octagunal leadlight window made by hubbs and his talented mother. It features glass leaves and kookaburras, hand painted and blown, a beautiful painstaking work of art that adds life, light and color to our living area.
Just like we need to work on our home to keep it strong and functioning we need to work on our relationships to nurture them and keep them healthy. To give them the care they deserve to make sure they flourish.
Today, the start of a new week, let’s do all we can to keep the walls of our life resilient, the foundations strong and the inside running smoothly.
This is in response to Mundane Monday Challenge # 46 hosted by Jithin at PhoTrablogger, celebrating the the ordinary and the every day, a the beginning of each week. This is a challenge created to find beauty in almost everything …capture the beauty and upload the photographs.
Happy Monday everyone. I wish you all much love and a happy, healthy, strong home.
That leadlight window is exceptionally beautiful! It must bring a lot of light and cheer into your home.
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Thanks Justin, it does indeed.
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A truly beautiful analogy. Every relationship requires constant work. 🙂
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It does indeed. Thank you.
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I love the comparison between a home and a relationship. Well done!
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Thanks., I appreciate the comment.
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You are welcome!
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Boy, do I know what you mean about the house. We live in old farmhouse, about 114 years old now. We’ve been here 16 years now, and it’s in varying states of remodel at any given point. Nowhere near done, but it’s a labor of love.
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At least you’ll never be lost for something to do!
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Hahaha! You got that right! 😃
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Very wise thoughts, and the connection to the maintenance of your home is well.
I loved the lead light, looks so vibrant ☺️
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Thanks Alok.
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The window is beautiful! I’m no expert on either home maintenance or relationship maintenance but I go by the proviso of little and often rather than wait until it falls around your ears. By that time it’s usually beyond repair and / or a very expensive experience 🙂
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I know what you mean. It’s a constant effort to keep both home and life strong.
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so true!
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Don’t forget to make sure you have a solid foundation before you fix your walls 🙂
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So very true Don. 🙂
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Good one – maintenance for a relationship and a home 🙂 I love it, Miriam 💐
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Thanks Monica, appreciate your comment.
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What a fabulous window, and how clever of hubbs and his mum to be able to make it. I like your new balustrade on the decking too. 🙂
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Thanks Elaine. They both really changed the look of the place.
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A very clever post and a home among the gumtrees. The window is priceless.
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Thanks. I do love it here.
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I love your beautiful window!
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Thank you!
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You always get me thinking deeply Miriam! I love reading your posts. Thank you. 😌
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What a lovely thing to say. Thank you. 🙂
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Well it is true! You are a tremendous writer. I really enjoy every post. 🙂
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You are too kind. And the feeling is completely mutual. 🙂
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🙂
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This is a great piece Miriam, this has really made me smile ..on a evening when I’ve done nothing but try. Thank you 😊
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It’s my absolute pleasure. Thank you for your lovely comment.
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Your welcome :)x
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I loved this post Miriam! Also, the centerpiece is SO beautiful ❤
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Thank you so much!
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It’s an accurate and beautiful analogy. A thought-provoking read.
Here’s hoping you’ll check out my blog too at https://thewhimsicalandwanderingsoul.wordpress.com/
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Thank you. I will go and check out your blog.
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A beautiful window into a beautiful truth, let’s tend and mend!
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A lovely comment, thank you.
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The new deck looks nice, and I love that window! You are lucky to have such talent in your family!
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I agree Ann, I am indeed lucky. Thank you.
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Great post and OMGosh – I LOVE THE WINDOW!!!
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Thank you so much 🙂
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Welcome!!
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So much truth here! And oh, the joyful colors in that special window. 🙂 Makes me smile!
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Glad you liked it. Stay happy.
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It’s so ironic reading this as I was saying just the same thing to my Hubbs recently; that life is like our old house, without timely care and attention, it begins to feel a bit dispirited – certainly can as we age. Thanks for the endorsement! Time to give the house and relationships and bit of a spruce up! 🙂
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It’s true isn’t it. We get so caught up trying to do everything else that the house suffers. And then it starts resembling life if we neglect it too long. Time to vacuum tomorrow!
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Beautiful home. I like the octagonal glass especially. Fixing things all by oneself is a nice thing to do.
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Thank you. And there’s still so much more that needs to be done.
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Hopefully you will finish them soon 🙂
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I hope so too. More stuff just keeps happening.
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Thankss for a great read
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And thanks for reading!
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