Moving

We're in the throes of it, for sure. Boxes everywhere and not easy to unpack them since there is no place to put things yet. We bought a 'fixer upper' of course, and now we are 'fixing 'er up' so to speak.

One of the guys who helped us move the 'big' stuff said of the house that it looked 'very 80's.' Now I'm back to that old quandary about how I can tell when something is dated. But I think that one of the issues is that the trim (baseboards, door frames) is all brown - wood finish brown. We are painting it all a crisp white and hoping that will help update the whole house - but it is slow going. And, along the lines of 'the leg bone's connected to the hip bone' sort of thinking, we are finding that it makes sense to paint as we go, then set up the bookcases or china cabinet etc. - each thing that then needs to go along the painted wall. So this is, as I said, slow going.

And it didn't help that the movers didn't manage, for whatever reason, to get any of the hardware for our things to be, actually, WITH our things. No bolts to put the piano's legs on. No pins to hold up shelves in all those bookcases...

But -

• The new appliances are wonderful
• The house stays cool and the neighborhood is quiet
• The cats love looking out the windows and having more of their 'stuff'
• I can do laundry any time I want without worrying about disturbing other people
• The water tastes great!

And more good news - the other house sale looks more and more like it will actually go through!