Praying for Graham

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On July 30th, our family made a trip to the Adirondacks to spend some time with friends at our favorite place, The Word of Life Family Campground.  This is a part of The Word of Life Ministries which also consists of the Bible Institute, The Inn up in Schroon Lake and the summer ministries of The Island (for teens) and The Ranch (for the younger ones).  Every Friday evening, there is a rodeo at The Ranch which is open to the public.  It is a fun time with a petting zoo, concessions, climbing tower, and an old time rodeo.

This particular Friday, the rodeo was going well until the calf roping event.  One of the wranglers, Graham Stump, was on his personal horse, Crockett, when the horse stumbled, fell and Graham was thrown to the ground, hard.  Graham was rushed via ambulance and then air lifted to the hospital where he has been in ICU since that day.

Please read Graham's daily updates as told by his wife, Randi, at prayforgraham.com  Randi, as well as Graham need our prayers during this difficult time.  You may also find updates on Facebook under "Praying for Graham Stump".

Thank you for taking the time to care and to pray,


...The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous one avails much. James 5:16

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LeT ThErE Be A LiGhT!

I have been diligently working on a "junk marriage" of sorts for our kitchen.  We have had an old vintage light fixture above our sink which use to have a schoolhouse-style globe on it.  However, the light wasn't, shall i say, very illuminating.   

First, I removed the globe hoping to find a clear alternative but due to the age of the fixture there wasn't any to be found with the right neck-size opening.  Then  I removed the 20 MeeLLION layers of paint with my trusted friend, Multi-Strip, to reveal a beautiful patina of metal...possibly brass mixed with some other silver metals.  

Here's the before and after in the pre-shade state:

We lived with the fixture stripped and globe-bare for many months UNTIL I had a "light bulb" moment.   I purchased a lot of 3 vintage metal light fixture shades last year off ebay that were horribly coated with latex paint and chipping, no actually they were shedding they were so bad.   I again took my trusted friend, Multi-Strip and behold they too were beautiful underneath all that ugliness.  Now, the next step was to figure out how to connect the two parts together.  Enter another fav: JB Weld to the rescue!

Here's a test run for alignment.

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I then took the part of the electrical light socket that screws on and JB Welded it to the shade as seen in photo.  This way the shade would be secure and easily removed for any possible electrical work in the future.  Once the weld was cured (allow at least 15 hours) it was ready to hang.  (Mr.1829 helped with this part - remember to ALWAYS turn off power to the outlet.)

Here it is in all its loverly, vintage, industrial, patina'd goodness:

Total cost: $5 (for shade-everything else I had on hand)

What do you think of this repurpose, re-use and marriage of a vintage fixture and shade?

 

For me it is a perfect match of industrial, farmhouse & thrifty goodness!