more progress on the home front
Before heading to Italy at the beginning of the month I kind of wished the trip wasn't on the calendar, since we were having beautiful winter weather, and with C. just having moved in, there would be lots to do at home. As it turned out that beautiful winter weather lasted just till it was time to come home, and then we had a couple of weeks with temps above freezing during the day, and below at night, which resulted in a very icy driveway, but the ice over the walkway was easily chopped away, so that has been bare paving and cobblestones for a while now. The first part of this holiday weekend we were given nice weather again--below freezing, and a fresh dusting of snow to brighten up the world. Not that much of our snow had gone yet--only the part of the yard right up next to the house has melted enough to show the grass.
But what about the part about C's moving stuff in? They did, of course, accomplish some of it while I was gone, but there was plenty more to do after I got back. Not necessarily in this order:
We put her bed, which is a Queen-sized IKEA bed which easily lifts up to reveal storage underneath, in our bedroom upstairs, and we put the King-sized memory foam mattress upon which we had been sleeping on top of the old Queen-sized bed downstairs, after building it a shelf extension to support the extra width of mattress. Should we ever have lots of houseguests at one time, we can take it off again and put it on the living room floor, and some can sleep in the guest room on that bed, while others take the living room.
We moved the bookshelves to the living room, and added her books into the mix, and we put up her nice set of IKEA shelves in the office as project shelves. Her plants have covered every available window ledge (and one, which wants much less sunlight, lives on top of one of the living room speakers).
We went through all of her kitchen stuff and, when her items were either unique or better than the equivalent we already had, her item went into the kitchen cupboards, and ours went either into storage, the get rid of pile, or the "stuff she will take with her when she heads south for that 4-month summer job" pile, but when we already had something in that niche that was better than hers, ours stayed in the cupboards, and hers went into one of the above piles.
And much more--this being a holiday weekend we have been making good progress. However, I won't be available to help for the rest of it, so it is good that we have come so far along in the project. I have just heard from O. His grandmother's health has taken an abrupt turn for the worse, so he and I will be driving over to Finland tomorrow morning to see her, and staying there till Monday.
But what about the part about C's moving stuff in? They did, of course, accomplish some of it while I was gone, but there was plenty more to do after I got back. Not necessarily in this order:
We put her bed, which is a Queen-sized IKEA bed which easily lifts up to reveal storage underneath, in our bedroom upstairs, and we put the King-sized memory foam mattress upon which we had been sleeping on top of the old Queen-sized bed downstairs, after building it a shelf extension to support the extra width of mattress. Should we ever have lots of houseguests at one time, we can take it off again and put it on the living room floor, and some can sleep in the guest room on that bed, while others take the living room.
We moved the bookshelves to the living room, and added her books into the mix, and we put up her nice set of IKEA shelves in the office as project shelves. Her plants have covered every available window ledge (and one, which wants much less sunlight, lives on top of one of the living room speakers).
We went through all of her kitchen stuff and, when her items were either unique or better than the equivalent we already had, her item went into the kitchen cupboards, and ours went either into storage, the get rid of pile, or the "stuff she will take with her when she heads south for that 4-month summer job" pile, but when we already had something in that niche that was better than hers, ours stayed in the cupboards, and hers went into one of the above piles.
And much more--this being a holiday weekend we have been making good progress. However, I won't be available to help for the rest of it, so it is good that we have come so far along in the project. I have just heard from O. His grandmother's health has taken an abrupt turn for the worse, so he and I will be driving over to Finland tomorrow morning to see her, and staying there till Monday.