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  • Winter Comfort

    —Veiled Glory

    “Aren’t you cold?” If I only had a dime for every time I have been asked that question over the last three winters. You ladies know what I mean. Intelligent people nosily inquire after your internal temperature because, gasp, you are wearing a dress outside, in December/January/February. Then I feel compelled, [...]
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    Posted: December 07, 2009, 9:56am EST
    by Anna

  • Encourging Post-it Notes

    —Veiled Glory

    Number of comments: 7
    Had a terrific time with family this Thanksgiving – sans Jeff. Ah, well, he had a place to eat and friends to be around after he was done with work. [I feel a rant post coming on about how Christians should refrain from shopping except in extreme emergencies during the [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 2:12pm EST
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  • Outta Town

    —Veiled Glory

    Number of comments: 1
    That time of year…when my family gathers for Thanksgiving. We will be leaving tomorrow for Ohio. Parents can commune with (sometimes naked) grand kids. One of them I have not even met yet. This should be fun. Next week, I will post new snoods to the Etsy Shop. [...][...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 2:01pm EST
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  • Snood Winner

    —Veiled Glory

    Number of comments: 2
    The winner of the brown snood is: Raquel ! I will send you an email and you can reply with your shipping address. I will mail the snood tomorrow. Next month I will give away a snood in honor of St. Nicholas of Myra, whose feast day (according to the Old Calendar) [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 9:14am EST
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  • Empathy

    —Veiled Glory

    Number of comments: 2
    Had some “Aha!” internet stumbling around today. The fruit of which is the following articles: Aspies Empathize Too Much and Remarks on Autism and Catholicism Follows up nicely on the Love and Vocation post I wrote a couple weeks ago.   [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 1:04pm EST
    by Anna

  • Etsy Shop Opening

    —Veiled Glory

    Number of comments: 4
    My etsy shop, UnderThere, is open! I am selling snoods to start. Check out the Snood Giveaway, too! [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 2:45pm EST
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  • Internet…

    —Veiled Glory

    Number of comments: 6
    I need some talk-therapy for a few moments. Do you mind? Been pondering my internet presence…on how “private” I should be or not. How far to take my minor popularity here in the interwebs. For instance… I am thinking about getting my name as a domain name. My brother has one. Lots [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 3:48pm EST
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  • Catholic, Pro and Con

    —Veiled Glory

    Number of comments: 9
    Ruth asked this past week why I/we had not chosen the Roman Catholic Church over the Eastern Orthodox Church. It is a fitting question, one which I probably would have bungled by video (or I may turn this post into a video montage, for my YT only crowd) so I [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2009, 8:33pm EST
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  • Postponement

    —Veiled Glory

    Number of comments: 4
    Due to circumstances mostly out of my control, I will have to delay my Big Sneaky Project Announcement until Tuesday, November 17th. Thank you for your patience. Part of the “beyond my control” circumstances is the weather. We’ve had constant rain for over three days now. The rivers and streams are [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 9:04am EST
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  • Sneaky Project

    —Veiled Glory

    Number of comments: 2
    I am still working on the Big Sneaky Project. You will all love it and want to, um, participate. Next week is the grand unveiling (pun)! [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 8:48am EST
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  • Love and Vocation

    —Veiled Glory

    Number of comments: 4
    Working two weeks on two separate temporary administrative assignments has taught me a valuable lesson: I need a vocation where I can love people unreservedly. I will let you all into an Aspie thing or a weird-is-me-theory. This whole treating people as casual goods in modern society bothers me deeply. Like disposable [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 11:08am EST
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  • Bee Right Back

    —Veiled Glory

    Number of comments: 6
    Well, for the next week and a half, I am at a temp office job. Blech!! Its awful. I will probably post only once or twice during this time. BUT, hand onto your scarves, ladies! I have got a sneaky project underway! [...]
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    Posted: October 20, 2009, 9:16pm EDT
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  • Random Bits, 10-12-09

    —Veiled Glory

    What is news? Waiting around, nervously to hear back for husband’s job offer. They said they would call one way or the other this afternoon. I will update as soon as I hear. This would be a PRIMO job for him in all ways. It would mean I wouldn’t need a [...]
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    Posted: October 12, 2009, 1:10pm EDT
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  • Bears Oh My

    —Veiled Glory

    Number of comments: 2
    Bears. We has them. Or mebbe just one we nicknamed Yogi. I hope just one. He (or she) has been enjoying our neighbors’ trash can contents the last couple of weeks. Trash scattered this morning. Our cans are the large municipal variety that racoons or stray dogs cannot knock over and [...]
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    Posted: October 08, 2009, 8:42am EDT
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  • Compliment Green Light

    —Veiled Glory

    Number of comments: 4
    I like compliments, both giving and receiving. I wasn’t always comfortable with the receiving part. Early on in my modesty journey, I had the nagging thought that people gave me compliments out of pity: “Let’s say something nice about her new skirt, even though we know she is a religious [...]
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    Posted: October 06, 2009, 1:06pm EDT
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  • Courage

    —Veiled Glory

    Number of comments: 2
    From Tea at Trianon: I have worn a hat or mantilla to Mass most of my life and may have occasionally received strange looks from others. I do not really remember because I do not really care. If people have been bothered by my headcoverings then that was their problem, not [...]
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    Posted: October 02, 2009, 1:12pm EDT
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  • Masculine Fashion

    —Veiled Glory

    Number of comments: 10
    I meet up with Miss Maggie nearly every Tuesday at a local coffee shop. This establishment is the study/social place for the local liberal arts college. We see our share of scruffy, flip-flop style young adults hovering over laptops and twice-as-thick textbooks. Occasionally I get a people watcher’s treat of [...]
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    Posted: September 24, 2009, 9:20am EDT
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  • Robin Hood(ed)

    —Veiled Glory

    Number of comments: 2
    Olivia de Havilland as Maid Marian If you can catch this on tv or rent it, The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) has some fabulous ladies’ costuming in the quasi-Medieval Hijab genre. The men in tights you will just have to snigger at. [...]
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    Posted: September 23, 2009, 9:12pm EDT
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  • Shoe blogging

    —Veiled Glory

    Number of comments: 3
    I was inspired from Alana’s shoe expose to drag out my entire shoe collection. Here is the box I used to pack them all up when moving from Oklahoma to Virginia: [Those are Jeff's shoes in front, as a scale item.] And….here they all are: Slippers count as shoes, though I never wear [...]
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    Posted: September 16, 2009, 6:14pm EDT
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  • Little Girl Sewing

    —Veiled Glory

    Number of comments: 8
    My little pink “confection” dress, with pink polka dot rick-rack trim, made for the little girl who was baptised this past Sunday. The whole ensemble, with headscarf and bloomers. [...]
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    Posted: September 07, 2009, 9:37am EDT
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  • Pilgrimage to Middlebrook

    —Veiled Glory

    Number of comments: 6
    This past Sunday, we made a mini-pilgrimage to a Russian church tucked back in the Virginia hillsides. Our priest’s son and two others from our mission came along for the ride. Right side of the church, the Transfiguration Left side of church, the Annunciation Front, the Iconostasis After a full potluck meal at the [...]
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    Posted: September 02, 2009, 9:41am EDT
    by Anna

  • New Video Series

    —Veiled Glory

    Number of comments: 10
    I will get better at speaking, I promise. [...]
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    Posted: August 28, 2009, 1:45pm EDT
    by Anna

  • Sirin Ensemble

    —Veiled Glory

    Number of comments: 7
    Haunting Music…and serious headgear! [...]
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    Posted: August 23, 2009, 9:20pm EDT
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  • More Gettysburg

    —Veiled Glory

    Number of comments: 1
    More photo goodness: The Eternal Peace Monument Quote on Eternal Peace Monument The Irish Brigade from New York Monuments are e-v-e-r-ywhere in Gettysburg. Statues to denote where each regiment engaged. Markers for the Left and Right start and end of each regiment. Statues of generals, statues of remarkable men. Each state is represented with [...]
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    Posted: August 20, 2009, 2:17pm EDT
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  • The Devil and the 20th Maine

    —Veiled Glory

    Number of comments: 5
    Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Spiritual lessons are everywhere you turn. We had a good quality family outing to this historic battlefield last week. I am not a military historian; my personal heros/heroines from this conflict as a child were civilians. I have come to admire and appreciate several military actors in this great [...]
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    Posted: August 19, 2009, 2:21pm EDT
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  • On Vacation

    —Veiled Glory

    Number of comments: 2
    We are off to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania tomorrow! I have wanted to visit since I ever read a history book. In my dreamy dreams, the ideal visit to Gettysburg would be envisioned as thus: Me, wearing a full deep mourning outfit, ala 1863. Jet earrings and bonnet with veil. Brother, wearing kilt and playing [...]
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    Posted: August 11, 2009, 11:32am EDT
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  • Opportunality

    —Veiled Glory

    Number of comments: 7
    …or, in less fancy words, laziness. Living in this suburban situation, I have become lax in my modesty and headcovering standards. I lived in an urban apartment in Oklahoma. When I walked out my doorway, I was out there for many eyes to see. So, appropriately, I did not leave home [...]
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    Posted: August 05, 2009, 5:15pm EDT
    by Anna

  • An Announcement

    —Veiled Glory

    Number of comments: 10
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    Posted: July 31, 2009, 11:18am EDT
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  • Smockity Fun

    —Veiled Glory

    Number of comments: 1
    A smock! Using ‘Martha’s Nursing Smock‘ pattern and Gehman’s Country Fabrics, Tropical Breeze print. Easy to sew (if you are an intermediate type seamstress) and comfy to wear. [...]
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    Posted: July 28, 2009, 11:20am EDT
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  • Inspiration

    —Veiled Glory

    Number of comments: 5
    These past two weeks: Visitors! Baking! Shopping! SICK! *sniffles* Recovering today… So I needs some inspiration to write more goodness for yall. Or a video? I might try a video. Leave me a comment to pique my interest. [...]
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    Posted: July 25, 2009, 10:18am EDT
    by Anna

  • Gardening to live

    —Veiled Glory

    Number of comments: 2
    Quote taken from newspaper article about shi-shi community gardens in our town: “In our home country, if we didn’t keep a garden, we would starve.” a 17 year old Burundi young man tending his family’s 300 square foot plot. They were resettled in our city three years ago. Makes you rethink your cutsey [...]
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    Posted: July 17, 2009, 11:01am EDT
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  • Visitors coming

    —Veiled Glory

    Weeeewhoooo! My brother, his daughter, his girlfriend (are they old enough to say “ladyfriend”?) and the girlfriend’s teenage son are coming in for a weekend visit tonight. I have not seen my niece since she was a year old. She is nearing four. WOW~ The ladyfriend is a vegetarian, which means I [...]
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    Posted: July 17, 2009, 9:08am EDT
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  • Inferiority Complex

    —Veiled Glory

    Number of comments: 6
    Or something like it. I still have it, while covering in public, lest you think I am all Miss-Confidence in my headscarf. The other night (Sunday), we went out for a free scoop of ice cream of the best darned ice cream ever tasted which our neighbors make at their shop [...]
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    Posted: July 14, 2009, 10:47am EDT
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  • Happy Anniversary

    —Veiled Glory

    Number of comments: 9
    …to us! Three happy years of marriage. May God grant us many, many more! We will have dinner at Local Roots Cafe tomorrow night. Nom, Nom, Nom. [...]
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    Posted: July 08, 2009, 12:30pm EDT
    by Anna

  • Scarce

    —Veiled Glory

    Number of comments: 1
    Where did Anna go? She got a social life, thats where. Don’t know if I have said this before, but since moving to Virginia 6 weeks ago, we have had 15x the amount of [positive] socialization than we had in Oklahoma. Church, Miss Maggie, knitters group (once or twice a month), [...]
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    Posted: July 06, 2009, 1:26pm EDT
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  • 30 Lessons from 30 Years on Earth, 6-10

    —Veiled Glory

    Number of comments: 2
    Number 6: Don’t be afraid of wearing sneakers with skirts or dresses. Comfort over dorkiness any day. Number 7: Get politcally active. Oh, the lessons you will learn! Number 8: Find a place (town, country, region), settle down, and love it. Number 9: Your education is never ‘wasted’ if you continue to nuture and share. [See lessons [...]
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    Posted: June 30, 2009, 10:41am EDT
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  • Little Dresses for Africa

    —Veiled Glory

    Number of comments: 1
    :::::Worthy Charity Bulletin::::: For those who sew (even very basic sewing skills) go check out Little Dresses for Africa. They make little girl dresses for young-ins at a Malawi mission. You don’t have to make the pillowcase style either (which, imho, the African ladies probably would not prefer); you can modest [...]
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    Posted: June 29, 2009, 1:45pm EDT
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  • 30 Lessons from 30 Years on Earth, #5

    —Veiled Glory

    Number of comments: 2
    Number 5: Pray with your husband and/or willing family members or roommates or neighbors every day. Jeff and I pray in the morning before going to work or starting our daily activities and again at night before bed. We started before our wedding. Its hard going to sleep upset with thy [...]
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    Posted: June 26, 2009, 2:21pm EDT
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  • 30 Lessons from 30 Years on Earth, #4

    —Veiled Glory

    Number of comments: 1
    Smell flowers. Pick flowers (within reasonable polite limits, both to Nature and to Neighbors). Anticipate the first flowers of spring. Mourn the passing of the last dead flowers in fall. Send flowers to an ailing friend. Bring flowers when invited over to dinner. Make daisy chains. Learn everything you can about flowers. Tuck one behind your ear. Leave flowers [...]
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    Posted: June 25, 2009, 9:58am EDT
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  • 30 Lessons from 30 Years, #2 & 3

    —Veiled Glory

    Number of comments: 2
    Number 2: Based on the Gandhi quote, First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you and then you win. ~Never be ashamed of your talents or interests. I spent my adolesence interested in things my peers were not: knitting, spinning my own yarn, sewing, gardening, etc. They mocked [...]
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    Posted: June 24, 2009, 10:47am EDT
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  • 30 Lessons from 30 Years on Earth, #1

    —Veiled Glory

    Number of comments: 4
    Number One: Marry your best friend. [...]
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    Posted: June 23, 2009, 4:07pm EDT
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  • Birth Week 2009

    —Veiled Glory

    Number of comments: 4
    EEeeep! I am turning 30 this week! Of course, I do not look a day over 21. I spent the weekend close to the bathroom because of tummy disturbances which are thankfully on the mend. [Nope, not preggers. Jeff was ill also.] The parents were out of town and we had company [...]
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    Posted: June 22, 2009, 9:36am EDT
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  • Peasant Valley Sunday

    —Veiled Glory

    Number of comments: 6
    Before Church, 6-14-09 Mom said, “You really have this peasant look going.” Linen blouse and skirt. Scarf is from Hijab Girl. [...]
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    Posted: June 14, 2009, 7:56pm EDT
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  • Boho Hijab

    —Veiled Glory

    Number of comments: 10
    Before Wednesday prayer service This is what I meant by, “boho hippie chic”, in a previous post. Note: sassy new glasses, brown chucks and picket fence. [...]
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    Posted: June 12, 2009, 2:13pm EDT
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  • Suburbia

    —Veiled Glory

    Number of comments: 4
    This is my first official day of being a housewife in suburbia. Wahoo. <You can pick up the sarcasm here.> Jeff got a temporary part-time job which is a mile from home. He started this morning. It is some income, which is better than none, and we are thankful he can still [...]
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    Posted: June 12, 2009, 11:11am EDT
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  • The HC in the RV

    —Veiled Glory

    Number of comments: 4
    Even though I know the physical landscape in the Roanoke Valley and still know some people here, I am approaching this community as a much different person than when I left. What changed? Married. Older and, maybe, a tad wiser? Fatter (oh well). And dressed modestly with a headscarf. That last one was the kicker. [...]
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    Posted: June 08, 2009, 11:14am EDT
    by Anna

  • Saturday Perfection

    —Veiled Glory

    Number of comments: 3
    Let’s see…its only 10:30 am and I have accomplished the following: Hit up the Salem Farmers Market and came home with: broccoli, lettuce, snap peas, fennel (will top salmon for dinner tonight!), a plate of carrot cake muffins, and a small bear of local honey. Made friends with the honey-man, Coy, who [...]
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    Posted: June 06, 2009, 10:46am EDT
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  • Landed in Virginia

    —Veiled Glory

    Number of comments: 7
    We are here! Arrived in the gorgeous Roanoke valley on Sunday evening. The drive was uneventful and the weather was clear the entire way. Dad had two guys waiting to off-load our truck into the garage. We are SO happy to be living in this area. Everything is conveniently located; people are [...]
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    Posted: June 03, 2009, 11:15am EDT
    by Anna

  • Moving Moments

    —Veiled Glory

    Number of comments: 3
    This is one of those, “You know you married a good man when…”, moments. Unmarried ladies, take note. We stop by the storage place, who happen to sell boxes and deal in the moving truck we will pick up on Friday, to buy a wardrobe box for my special clothing. I [...]
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    Posted: May 26, 2009, 3:26pm EDT
    by Anna

  • Moving Pics

    —Veiled Glory

    Number of comments: 1
    Living Room, 5-25-09 You really can’t tell much change from this angle. Some stuff has walked out with our uncle and to Goodwill. More stuff packed. We don’t have much else to add from the bedroom or bathroom, just the hanging clothes and furniture. Next up, the kitchen [insert ominous duh-duh-daaaah]. So [...]
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    Posted: May 25, 2009, 2:36pm EDT
    by Anna

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