Fast away November passes, fa la la!
Much of the last 8 weeks have been devoted either to garden work or--lately--moving my center of operations from the larger to the smaller of the two non-master bedrooms in the main part of the house--to the bedroom my son occupied while he lived at home. Main motivation was to convert the larger bedroom back to a usable guest room, this bedroom only being big enough for a single bed. Whereas in the big bedroom, the single bed and other furniture can be against walls, freeing a good amount of floor space to set up an "Aerobed" should we have multiple guests.
The large mahogany desk I was using will be going somewhere out of the house--haven't decided whether to flog it on Craigslist or just give it to the goodwill--and a smaller desk (called a "spinet" desk) is now housing the iMac computer. The CPU is part of the flat screen monitor in these computers so the actual footprint is quite modest in size.
By "de-stashing" a lot of fabric (mostly scraps from my mother's stash--in theory, good to make quilt blocks--in practice, not gonna happen), I could make room on the "wall of shelves" in the big bedroom so the rest of my craftsy stuff can now reside there as well. If I can get some floor-to-ceiling curtains whipped up, and ceiling-mounted curtain rods installed, said shelving will be tastefully concealed. My niece and her BF are expected overnight on the WE after Thanksgiving, and I MIGHT actually have this done by then.
Not everything is put away in the New Room yet, and I might have to make some Decisions about display items. For example, I have collected the nine LOTR character "dolls" put out by Toy Biz, the three WETA/Sideshow sculptures that came in the Expanded DVDs, plus a number of statuettes and/or busts from WETA, though nothing approaching a "complete" set of anything. You can imagine the interior dialogue: "Oh, come on, grow UP--let them go and take back some space." However, when I went online to check what the statuettes might be going for, or at least what they cost originally, the dialogue suddenly became "Gee, they're still taking names for a waiting list on that statuette--COOL!" So perhaps I'm not ready to give them up yet!--and even if I think about the ones I'm most likely to sell off--the busts and an extra Frodo statuette--the next thought is "I wonder if that would be enough to snap up something really good like 'Sam and Bill' or the original 'King Elessar.' " Hopeless!
One thing I love about the new room, though, is that the desk is positioned for a view out the window.
The weather has been the usual schizoid mix of New England autumn--snow on the 18th of October, then a week in November with temps to 70! The past two mornings, however, the frost is still thick on the deck at 8 AM, and even the semi-hardy plants are drooping. Definitely killing frost.
And so for your viewing pleasure (?) we present a few more garden photos from when I was hustling around getting the last few perennials into ground in October.
http://pics.livejournal.com/peonyfoxburr/gallery/0000qrw3 this way to the garden pix
The large mahogany desk I was using will be going somewhere out of the house--haven't decided whether to flog it on Craigslist or just give it to the goodwill--and a smaller desk (called a "spinet" desk) is now housing the iMac computer. The CPU is part of the flat screen monitor in these computers so the actual footprint is quite modest in size.
By "de-stashing" a lot of fabric (mostly scraps from my mother's stash--in theory, good to make quilt blocks--in practice, not gonna happen), I could make room on the "wall of shelves" in the big bedroom so the rest of my craftsy stuff can now reside there as well. If I can get some floor-to-ceiling curtains whipped up, and ceiling-mounted curtain rods installed, said shelving will be tastefully concealed. My niece and her BF are expected overnight on the WE after Thanksgiving, and I MIGHT actually have this done by then.
Not everything is put away in the New Room yet, and I might have to make some Decisions about display items. For example, I have collected the nine LOTR character "dolls" put out by Toy Biz, the three WETA/Sideshow sculptures that came in the Expanded DVDs, plus a number of statuettes and/or busts from WETA, though nothing approaching a "complete" set of anything. You can imagine the interior dialogue: "Oh, come on, grow UP--let them go and take back some space." However, when I went online to check what the statuettes might be going for, or at least what they cost originally, the dialogue suddenly became "Gee, they're still taking names for a waiting list on that statuette--COOL!" So perhaps I'm not ready to give them up yet!--and even if I think about the ones I'm most likely to sell off--the busts and an extra Frodo statuette--the next thought is "I wonder if that would be enough to snap up something really good like 'Sam and Bill' or the original 'King Elessar.' " Hopeless!
One thing I love about the new room, though, is that the desk is positioned for a view out the window.
The weather has been the usual schizoid mix of New England autumn--snow on the 18th of October, then a week in November with temps to 70! The past two mornings, however, the frost is still thick on the deck at 8 AM, and even the semi-hardy plants are drooping. Definitely killing frost.
And so for your viewing pleasure (?) we present a few more garden photos from when I was hustling around getting the last few perennials into ground in October.
http://pics.livejournal.com/peonyfoxburr/gallery/0000qrw3 this way to the garden pix