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Tom did this to make me feel better. Tomorrow he’ll put lights on it, and this weekend we’ll get it decorated, I hope.
You see the stickers are still on the windows because the City hasn’t inspected and approved our flood recovery accomplishments. I can’t wait until those things are gone.
I am having an absolute shit storm of a week, and it promises to get worse before it gets better.
So while the clips that hang the new valances in my office are tiny, the effort Tom made–after a day of work and before eating dinner–to search for them in two places so that he could hang these for me was huge. I was exhausted and I could barely focus because my eyes were so tired, but watching him get these on the windows, and seeing them this morning in the sunlight, meant everything.
Current Photo Friday theme: Black and White
Thank you,Lynne! These are perfect. I’ll be organized in no time 2020?
In the wreck that is the middle bedroom, aka the second guest room/the smaller guest room/and in reality the Winnie the Pooh room, the animals are home, including my teddy bear Dr. Neil. FINALLY I am reunited with this most cherished friend of my toddler years. (Middle shelf, to the right of Snoopy.)
Just out of sight on the bottom left is the Lonely Goatherd. He also did not drown. Some people on this estate are not happy about that. Lay ee odl lay ee odl-
It’s the same challenge as last week, so instead, I offer a look at a little more progress, as in the unpacking of so.many.boxes and its resultant back pain.
The large guest room is so close to being finished. But not quite. So I just show you the cozy parts.
That rug is Lynne’s, by the way. She uses this room when she’s in town, and otherwise, the doors stay closed. I can’t have rugs. I’m sure you can’t guess the reason why.
Books have come home to the library, which we never emptied. Just the bottom shelves. They’re full again.
Full shelves do make me happy. So THESE should make me ecstatic, right? They have been empty for a year and three months.
Well, not entirely happy. They are divided by genre but not at all within the genre by author name. I just wanted to empty the boxes. It’ll take time to get the books shelved correctly.
My china cabinet contents are back home!
And so are my serving dishes. Over a year without bowls has officially ended!
And the roll top desk is itself again, including my grandfather’s bell and slate.
More to come…
One of our curio cabinets was destroyed in the flood. What Tom and I were actually shopping for this past Sunday when I found the Shari Lewis thermos was a replacement, and it happened! We found just what we wanted. Now the ashes of our beloved Pete, Stevie, Margot, and Guinness are home and on their own doggie shelf in the new-to-us cabinet.
I can’t find a box yet that has the rest of the stuff that goes in this cabinet.
Just chaos. Tom and Tim brought home 48 boxes and bins from the storage room to add to the boxes I already don’t have time to unpack. It’s daunting.
Again I say, WHERE ARE THE ELVES?
Wooden Man is judging me because I don’t have time to organize the craft room. Which is really sad, because I have about a fourth of the craft supplies I had pre-Harvey. I should be able to get it done.
Happy Halloween!
Remember the 1910 door that Tom and I found?
View of both sides:
That Keith and Mike then turned into a Dutch door to put between my office and the library to make me happy?
Behold the finished product, left with its rough surface but painted to match our kitchen cabinets, with the middle part stained in a color found within our kitchen granite:
From the kitchen/library side:
From the office/craft room side:
Our contractors are the BEST! And full credit to Tom for finding the lockset with glass knobs for vintage doors. This is the most eclectic 1960 house ever–much like my inner child, teenage spirit, seasoned brain, and old hag physical self, NOTHING matches, and that’s okay.
Once again, all I can offer is a blurry photo of the old outside lights that were around the office/back room. Big globes, some white, some clear, that were bug attractors. When the painters painted the outside of the back, they took those globes down and cleaned them really well. They had no idea they were destined to be replaced. I don’t have any photos of them all clean and shiny!
Tom installed the new lights while our contractor and crew were on hiatus due to a week of bad weather. These are the new ones. We put yellow lights in them to try to discourage those bugs.
