Seanie's brother moved out of the duplex at the beginning of April to his new place, a rental belonging to Seanie's mom. He's not far away, just on the other end of the Willow Glen neighborhood. When he and his wife left, not all of their stuff went with them. He has been storing multiple vehicles, some lawn furniture, and a lot of miscellaneous ( Read more... )

When working a store filled with thirty years of history, it's important for me to remember that what looks like trash to me might be very important to the owner ( Read more... )

Our front room currently looks delightfully empty and inviting, with a large space in front of the television to stretch our legs. But the flip side of this is that the other half of the room has become incredibly crowded as our table is too large for the space it has been forced into. The couch effectively creates a tiny nook where our treadmill ( Read more... )

Seanie got it into his head yesterday afternoon that the long-gestating plans to move the furniture and reconfigure the layout of our room needed to be implemented now, so while I was at work he started emptying shelves and pushing chairs and tables and couches around ( Read more... )

For the past two years or so - no, perhaps longer, perhaps ever since I moved into the duplex - I've been lazy about filing papers. First, I threw them into a plastic inbox tray on my desk in the office. Then that started to overflow so I just threw new papers onto a pile. Then I got a large shipment of books and stacked them on the desk too. ( Read more... )

While I was on my lunch break today, I bought a white clothes rack for the bedroom.  Nothing fancy, just a sturdy metal frame that I could use to hang some coats on.  The closets in this rental are just too small for all my dresses and skirts and whatnot.


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Seanie decided yesterday that he wanted to install two bookcases behind his desk so that he could store random office electronics there. Fair enough. He wanted low-lying shelves, the kind that are only about waist level. They were surprisingly difficult to find! First, we found the style we wanted at Big Lots, but they didn't come in the color ( Read more... )

I helped Daddy to clean out the gutters today. It's a funny little tradition that he does every year after the first big rain storm - but it's been so dry this year that instead of doing it in October or November like usual, we ended up in 2007 before getting it done ( Read more... )