Well, the Chiefs game didn’t go the way we wanted it to. Also, Xavier Worthy left the game in the first few minutes, throwing a wrench in Steph’s week 1 fantasy match up. But no matter the outcome…it’s FOOTBALL SEASON!
We love football, which is probably funny for people who knew us ten years ago when we barely knew the rules. In another lifetime, we owned a brewery that showed every football and baseball game on multiple television screens every week. Being surrounded by Kansas City sports forced us to watch the games and learn the players (and the rules!). By the end of the second year, we were fans. The bar is long gone (and we’re not sorry about that), but our fandom has remained.
This is our last football season in this house. The last season to watch games on our deck, under blankets with heaters and the fire pit blazing. We always push the envelope of our deck, making it a three season deck using heaters when it gets cold and fans when the temperatures rise. This year, we will likely watch football on the deck through October and maybe even into November.
This is also be our last year to watch the Super Bowl on the big screen in the basement. We’re going to go ahead and speak it into existence that we will be watching the Chiefs win the Super Bowl in this house one more time before we sell.
God is in the details
There is a saying that the devil is in the details. I had a boss/mentor once (a former history professor and one of the best bosses I ever had) who told me that the original saying is actually “God is in the details.”
According to Wikipedia:
“The devil is in the details” is an idiom alluding to a catch or mysterious element hidden in the details; it indicates that “something may seem simple, but in fact the details are complicated and likely to cause problems”.It comes from the earlier phrase “God is in the details“, expressing the idea that whatever one does should be done thoroughly; that is, details are important.
This weekend, we focused on one of those details that people may never even notice (expect for the fact that we are writing about it here!). Our front door has always been burgundy, or so we thought. A few months ago, we painted the inside of our front door to complete our foyer makeover. When we did that, we discovered that the burgundy exterior of our door had faded over the last 15 years to an odd dark pink color.
We went to the hardware store and grabbed every burgundy paint chip they had. When we came home and compared them to the door, there was one that seemed very much like our front door color, only darker (the color is called Royal Garnet – so fancy!). We bought an indoor/outdoor paint sample to test it and lo and behold, it is pretty much a perfect match! We’re all pretty sure this was the original color before years of sun exposure.
Steph intended to use that paint sample to give the door a first coat of paint, but it covered so well that we got two coats out of that small paint sample jar!
Will someone notice that our door is freshly painted? Probably not, but it cost us 3 hours of time and $6.50 for a sample of paint, so why not elevate our front door a bit? If the “God is in the details” saying implies, details matter and paying attention to the small things matters. Even if it is for the benefit of the next people who own this house.
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