On this page are pictures of items I have for sale.  Notes on a few of them:

• The large cast iron skillet has been sold. Medium $8, smalls $5 each.
• The van is a 1995 Chevy G-10, 97k, new tires, exhaust; ladder rack, plumbers tube storage, tool cabinet equipped. Two year maintenance records. Runs well. Asking $2500.
• Go cart runs well, needs new inner tube on right rear tire and brake cable assembly. 4-stroke.
• Pocket bike has both pull and electric start. 2-stroke.
• Duplex doghouse is free. You load and haul.
• The aluminum side (saddle) tool boxes are 57.5″ long each.

Other items that aren’t pictured:

• 5 boxes of snap laminate flooring, approx 21 sq ft per box, 3 different designs.  Mannington natural cherry (3), Mannington canyon slate (1), Tarkett Boreal (1).
• A roll of aluminum entry service cable, $30
• 8 ft. round stock tank with spigot drain installed

You can email me with your questions if you like, or if there is something you are interested in. These items are located near Fitchville, which is south of Norwalk.

Featured Work:

I Am XL

The Story of Chantal’s Journey in Weight Loss

Introduction:

I could say it all began in February of 2008, but that wouldn’t really be true.  What probably is true is that it all began in January of 1968, when I was born.

All the food choices my mother made for me when I was a baby, a toddler, a preschooler.  The food choices I made for myself as a child, a young adult, a parent.

All the Halloween baskets and Easter baskets.  The gallons of chocolate milk and endless desserts.  The potlucks and family gatherings.

All the family genes, from both sides.  The fast food choices, the convenience food choices, the snack food choices…

…it’s ALL wrapped up in the story.

Hmm.  What’s even more likely true is that it started before January of 1968.  Maybe it’s the story of our modern age and the battles we must fight, the choices we must make.  And how the choices made by previous generations of this age affect us, now.

Hmm.

Well, no matter.  What does matter is that I am walking this path, this day, this way.

Will you join me?

* * *

If you have EVER

• wanted to lose weight
• needed to lose weight
• anguished over losing weight
• actually lost weight
• failed to lose weight

then you will love this book. It contains all the gut-wrenching honesty of a woman in the trenches who finally, FINALLY, after decades of longing to lose those excess pounds, somewhere, somehow, finds the motivation to muddle through the process.

Walk with her as she struggles with her own will, her own emotions, and the temptations all around her. Join her in discovering what works and what doesn’t. Ride along with her on the roller coaster of success and failure, and learn with her the one truth that never changes throughout the entire process.

I Am XL

The Story of Chantal’s Journey in Weight Loss

Part I:  Beginning the Journey
Get your copy today!

Program Scripts

 
Group Christmas Program Narration, December 2011
For our program, I took the musical and other offerings of our students and arranged them into a program entitled Gifts and Giftings with the attached narration.  A great portion of it is Scripture.

Norwalk First UMC Christmas Cantata Canticle of Joy by Joseph M. Martin, December 2010
This was an edit of the existing narration for the cantata because none of us liked it very much as it was.

Christmas with Grandma Brown
This is an old script that is entirely my own.  It was for a children’s Christmas program at First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) probably in December of 1995.

Unfortunately, the file containing that document in not on my computer…it’s on a 17-year-old hard drive somewhere.  So whenever I get this retyped or scanned, it will be available.

My Poor Husband

 
It’s probably true for every man whose wife wants to lose weight.

Cathy

Be Still My Soul

O Master Let Me Walk With Thee

Sing a Joyful Song

We Three Kings

Written In De Holy Book

As With Gladness Men of Old