Even for people who move as often as we do (and some moves are smoother than others, you know?), there is about a week in there where you still have a toothbrush and towels in two bathrooms several hundred miles apart but you don't know where your cord is that connects the camera to the computer (hence you-alls get no picture today). Yes, the coffee pot is still making coffee in the morning on one end of your planet but there's no spoons yet on the other.
I made a map of the new home and decided what furniture will fit and not, and yesterday gave up on finding a dinette set tiny enough for the new kitchen after visiting seven thrift stores. So I returned to one shop, bought a $10 four-foot long wrought iron plant stand that was half off, went to Lowe's and got a magical already-made table top for $9, and two stools and two round butt-biggerers for the stools and screws and wood trim to fit onto the bottom of the table top to fit it onto the plant stand, and voila, soon as I am done painting and clear-coating I will have a delightful perfect-sized table and two stools. Woot. Total cost was about $70, mostly because of the two new stools, but I have a large husband and didn't want a wiggly secondhand stool. These are very sturdy.
Also restained and resealed the church bench because it's going to live outside on the roofed porch, and am painting four wood bookcases my grandfather made for me years ago. And packing boxes, again, but this time being more careful to pack with giant labels that say what room they go in! And we'll police the movers to insure that the boxes get all the way to the rooms they belong in, this time! Found two very large baskets for $3 each, will paint white today for the porches, and also splurged and spent $15 on a nice wood pedestal, which got primer'd this morning before six a.m. I am picturing it on the front porch with a big beautiful boston fern on top!
Also got a piece of wood--it was a cabinet door from the re-use place that sells construction supplies to help out Habitat for Humanity. $1. I'll primer it in a few minutes and make a sign for under the mailbox that says "the Hibbards." I am all excited about making a new home that supports my husband, he is working very long hours and travelling all over the country for work, getting little sleep and eating meals that are not at all good for his diabetic diet. Within a week or so, he can lay his head on clean pillows and sheets, go to work in a shirt I iron "with prayers included" for him, carrying a proper lunch of his favorite foods. Dinner and a foot rub awaits his return! I love to spoil my husband. Without him I just don't feel complete, everything seems to fall apart.
Oh, and ordered the garden seeds. Dreaming of the future garden as I sleep at night.
Knew you'd be having fun. Don't breathe too many of those primer fumes.
Posted by: Bev | February 25, 2009 at 10:43 PM
Did you just say 'woot'? I think you did..
Good job on the homey bits! Inch by inch, I'm showing our yard who's boss and this weekend, I baked a delicious 4 layer cake for Gary's 29th birthday.
Posted by: Kate | March 02, 2009 at 02:20 PM