{"id":545,"date":"2011-04-14T14:44:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T14:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/04\/milspouse-friday-fill-in-37.html"},"modified":"2011-04-14T14:44:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T14:44:00","slug":"milspouse-friday-fill-in-37","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/04\/milspouse-friday-fill-in-37.html","title":{"rendered":"MilSpouse Friday Fill-In #37"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Doing this nice and early because the rest of my Thursday is pretty crazy!<\/p>\n

1. With PCS moves happening every few years, do you take the time to paint and decorate your home? submitted by Life as Mrs. JPT<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

That would be YES!  When we own our house, we have always taken time to paint, not necessarily for the color, but more because we prefer higher quality paint on our walls to keep them clean.  At our last house in Nebraska, even though we had a rental, the paint was such poor quality (original homebuilder paint, I think) we got permission from the homeowner to paint several of the rooms with a higher quality paint, and also got permission from him to change some of the colors.<\/i><\/p>\n

As for decorating, we keep it minimal.  No permanent stenciling or border paper.  We will make sure to hang items on our walls (the kids find it comforting, I know).<\/i><\/p>\n

2. If you could live in any home on a television series, what would it be? submitted by Standing By Him<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

If you mean a home based on the house itself, the layout and the decorating, it would have to be any of the homes on Wisteria Lane on ABC’s “Desperate Housewives”.  Somehow they all look so beautiful.  I could never get my house looking that nice.  Which is how you know it’s a TV show, right?  Lynette’s semi-chaotic house is probably the closest to my own in terms of clutter.<\/i><\/p>\n

3. What inspired you to start your blog?  submitted by Pink Combat Boots<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

My kids and my extended family.  Without having the grandparents nearby we heavily rely on the internet to share photos and videos of the boys.  I started my blogging — the storytelling aspect — on MySpace…WAY BACK before Facebook was presented to the masses.  My husband had a Facebook account because he was in Grad School in 2005-2008.  I started my Blogger blog in late 2007 so more than just MySpace friends could see the stories and pictures.  Most of the posts at the time were about the kids and some of the crafts and recipes we did.  Very little about the military life, since it wasn’t quite so military when my husband was in grad school.<\/i>

4. What is the weirdest thing you\u2019ve ever seen on base? submitted by Adventures in Life<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Most Air Force bases have a fire training area way over on the far side of the runway.  There’s always this burned-out welded together fuselage that gets set on fire time and time again so the firefighters can train on them.  <\/i>Here’s an example of one at Cannon AFB,<\/i><\/a> but if you do a Google Image Search on<\/i> “air force base fire training plane<\/i><\/a>” you’ll see dozens of them at assorted AF bases.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Don’t let this alarm you, it’s a “training” aircraft fire at Dover AFB.  Most Air Force bases have a fire training fuselage tucked away somewhere on the base.  <\/span>Photo courtesy of The Dover Post.<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The burned out aircraft aren’t very good looking and always looks rather shocking on an otherwise clean and professional looking base.<\/i><\/p>\n

5. Which historical figure (politician, writer, artist, scientist, actor, etc\u2026) would you like to have dinner with?  submitted by Army of Two<\/a>
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This is a toughie.  There are so many.  I think <\/i>Abraham Lincoln<\/i><\/b> would be towards the top of the list though.  <\/i>Perhaps because it’s on my mind<\/i><\/a>, I’ve been thinking about how this man had to do something pretty amazing.  He had a mutiny on his hands on several fronts, and had to make some VERY difficult decisions and essentially succeeded in keeping this nation together.  And to top that off, remember that this was before the days of telephone or Internet.  So communication was low and slow.  Heck, this was even 15 years before the invention of electricity!  <\/i>At least he had the telegraph, right?<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Doing this nice and early because the rest of my Thursday is pretty crazy! 1. 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