New Digs

We're making bold strides preparing our new place for moving in. Dan's brother kindly packed all our pre-SGU belongings from his garage into a Pod. Those items are due here next week. At that time, we'll be able to determine whether the scorpions and salamanders he spotted in our stored stuff took up permanent residence there or were just using our stuff as a proving grounds. Thankfully, our new place has a small paved pad adjacent to the house, so we don't even have to get permits and things to receive the pod and cautiously remove our long-forgotten treasures.

The landlord recently purchased, gutted and totally refurbished this duplex, so my task was to wipe all the grit off the windows. I also used my rummage sale skills to procure window treatments, rugs and other details for the house. Here Dan demonstrates his tool-weilding home decoration prowess. It's a dangerous thing putting two perfectionists in charge of decorating a home. This first curtainrod took an hour to hang - there were a lot more steps than you would think in those directions. The remaining ones went faster once the process was familiar. This pic is some final tweaks a few days later. Why he needs a laser level eludes me - he can spot a difference of 1/4cm over three feet with his naked eye when he stands across the room. He did most of our decor in Silver Spring back in the day and he's been trying his hand at the garage sales as well.

As you can see, we've got all hardwood floors. Sends me back to my childhood. I grew up in a Victorian farmhouse. We started with all hardwood and somewhere along the line coverted to wall to wall carpet. I remember as a kid tossing pillows on the wood between area rugs and hopping across the hardwood "quicksand." Why is everyone so impressed with hardwood when the first thing you have to do is figure out rugs and other covering to keep it from getting scratched up? I am proud of myself for remembering that carpet stores sell remnants at slight discount and can bind the edges, so we'll have one new item in the living room and linings for all the scary-floored closets.

Penny and Paul are enjoying all the empty space to run around in. Paul gets a bit spooked by his own voice in the echoey emptiness of the place right now. He has been remarkably cooperative in letting me clean. I moved his Moses basket to the new place and he has even gotten in a couple of naps there so far (something he has never done at home during the day!). Today Penny even said she didn't want to go home to Nanna's when we finished our cleaning spree.

Tuesday our carpets will be done, Thursday our Pod arrives - we could be sporting scorpion stings by this weekend!

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