Comment on Come to Visit, Stay for Supper! {Summer Home Tour 2013} by Richella Parham.
Hi Barb–
I stay in touch with your life mostly via Facebook and often pop in to visit your blog, but until today I’ve never taken your home tour. Shame on me–what a treat I’ve missed! Your home is lovely, and I enjoyed reading about all your projects. I am a hopeless Anglophile, so I loved all the English touches. And I was just thinking that I wish your husband and my husband could sit down for a nice visit. My husband’s business is finance, and his graduate studies were in finance, but his real love is history, which was his undergraduate major. Military history is a lifelong love of his. He’s slowly but surely building a little collection of art and artifacts, including the 50th birthday present I gave him–a WWII Norden bombsight. Luckily, I’m also a history buff, so we make a good pair. Slowly we’re learning about current military operations: our oldest son was just sworn in and is about to head off to Navy OCS. He’s been accepted for pilot training, but of course first he must learn to be an officer and a gentleman. Wish he could get some advice from your husband before he heads to Newport!
Anyway, I’m rambling now, but mostly I just wanted to say “hello” and thank you for the tour!
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A nurse recommended the Strassburg Sock to me, and it helped more than anything else. It should cost you no more than $30-40 either at a local shop or online. I found it on Amazon, but only saw the large calf size or pediatric size–you need the regular. Anyway, you should know going in that it’s not particularly comfortable to wear. In fact, you might wake up at some point in the night and tear it off. But it’s worth it. It holds your foot in a gentle stretch so that you don’t suffer that horrible pain upon waking up. Good luck!