Wedding Anniversary Obstacle Course Described

It’s the 40th anniversary obstacle course inside our house.

We will be celebrating our 40th wedding anniversary on July 22. No party. No trip. Just improving our home we moved into 36 years ago.

Everything from the kitchen cabinets can be found in boxes or stacks on the floor. Everything is out of the hall closet and bathroom closets. It’s a challenge to get around here.

I have noticed wedding presents — stainless steel pans still in great condition, a ragged set of towels, decorative glassware, pillowcases with crocheted edges. I haven’t even looked in the cedar chests.

We found the yellowed dove from the top of our wedding cake, and I am looking for a creative way to discard it on our anniversary.

I will be looking through the cedar chests for decorating the newly painted kitchen. I am decorating with things made by my grandparents and items I embroidered in my youth. Does anyone do that anymore? I have used some of them, and I’m getting stains out. I want to put a clothesline on the wall above the cabinets and hang them with clothes pins.

Between rehanging cabinet doors, and with new handles, painting inside closets, watering and picking okra, David and I are enjoying our anniversary adventure by watching the squirrels. We just got a special feeder that swings the squirrels off so the birds can have some food. We got a squirrel feeder so they can have their own food.

We have laughed about not wanting a special event or gifts for our anniversary. We’ve said all we need are offerings for the columbarium to be built at church so that we can someday be buried together in a niche there. How does that affect the phrase “’Til death do us part?” PATRICIA KIENZLE IS A SCHOOL COUNSELOR AND HAS WRITTEN FOR THE ENTERPRISE-LEADER FOR MORE THAN 10 YEARS.