Lots of New Stuff
I’ve been slacking off and haven’t posted anything since last Wednesday, but it hasn’t been because I haven’t had anything to write about, nor because I didn’t feel like writing. Between the new job and our weekend in Texas I’ve been very busy and also tired. Work has been moving at a very fast pace since we are trying to get the yearbook completed. Supposedly it will be done by this evening, but I don’t see how that will be possible. Today I will be adding new pieces to it, which I will have to edit and paste into the document. Once all the pieces are in, I will have to format everything so it will look as it’s supposed to once it’s printed. And Microsoft Word isn’t a great program for formatting these types of documents, so I’ll have to improvise as I go along. I hope I will have enough time to make it look as good as possible.
This past weekend, Tim and I took off early on Saturday and drove to Texas, where we picked up a moving truck and took it to his mom’s. That’s when the furniture moving started. His mom had offered us her dining set since she never uses it and we’d been looking for a proper table and chairs. Renting a one-way truck is much cheaper than buying a dining set—even buying a couple of nice chairs would exceed the cost of the truck rental! The first step was to back the truck into the driveway outside the porch. Tim did a very good job of backing the truck in, and I was glad he did it because I think Tim’s mom would have lost some of her plants in the process if I’d been at the wheel. We then somehow got the table out of the dining room, onto the porch (which is narrow and doesn’t have a railing, making it very easy to fall off when carrying large furniture), and down toward the truck. That was probably the hardest thing to move, because of its weight and because of the maneuvering we had to do on the porch while trying to avoid falling off it. Of course it being August in Texas, it was very hot outside and even hotter in the house. We were sweating profusely as soon as we started.
That wasn’t the only furniture we moved. In place of the dining table and chairs, we set a smaller table and chairs. That table, because of its assembled weight and also its shape, had to be disassembled so we could get it from one room into the other. Because of the temperature in the house by this point we were soaked. Then where that table and chairs used to be, Tim and I put a couple of recliners stacked on top of each other. Those came from the den, where we were making room for a futon. A bit earlier the three of us had gone to a house where Tim’s mom had seen a futon for sale. Tim and a guy who lived there loaded it onto his mom’s truck and we brought it to her house. When there was enough room for the futon, we carried it inside. This was easy enough to do since the mattress wasn’t too heavy and the frame was light and easy to maneuver. Finally everything was in place, and we beat the rain, which had been threatening to come down but never did.
In addition to the dining set we had loaded onto the truck, we also loaded a yard table that Tim’s mom had gotten for us from some neighbors who were moving, as well as some more chairs that she found at a yard sale. At this yard sale she also got lots of glassware and other things for the house. We now have some additional wine glasses and champagne flutes which are beautiful. We also have some nice placemats and napkins, as well as several tablecloths. There are also some things that the lady gave her which we aren’t too sure what they are or what we will do with them, but we’ll figure something out. Overall, this lady had very good quality things and most of them I really like.
As if all the furniture and all the stuff for the house wasn’t enough, we now have a number of new plants and pots of various sizes. The pots come from that lady’s yard sale, and many of them are in various shades of purple. For those of you who know me, you’ll understand how excited I am about them. There are also some large black ones that will be good for larger plants as I work on creating a mini jungle for us in our backyard. Actually I don’t know how ambitious I will get, but I do want to grow some more plants and then next spring put some of them in the ground and keep others in pots.
The plants themselves come from Tim’s mom’s garden. Her plants have been growing nicely and I love the way her front yard looks. Since the last time we were there some sunflowers have been growing wild, but she doesn’t like the huge sunflower plants as much as I do. She gave me cuttings from several of her plants and I now have them in water, hoping that they will grow roots so I can put them in pots. They are beautiful plants and would be a great addition to the ones we have already. Aside from flowering plants and plants with interesting leaves, she gave me a pot with several “useful” plants, including catnip (to feed Lena’s addiction), chives, rosemary, lemon basil, and a few others. Next time she will give me a cutting of a plant that originally came from her great-grandmother’s farm. I thought it would be neat to have a plant descended from a plant grown by Tim’s great-great-grandmother. He wasn’t nearly as excited by the idea as I was. In any case, I will have to ask what all the plant names are when Tim’s mom comes to see us since I’ve already forgotten. I hope most of them will still be alive by then! I’ve gotten better at keeping plants alive, but I still have much to learn.
So now our place is full of new stuff, most of which hasn’t been put away because we aren’t sure where we will put it or because it hasn’t been washed yet. It feels a bit like Christmas, except that we never end up with so many new things at Christmas. Lena was very confused yesterday and walked around among the new furniture and the bags and boxes that we brought in, and squawked with a confused tone in her voice. I’m sure she will get used to all the new stuff too.
This past weekend, Tim and I took off early on Saturday and drove to Texas, where we picked up a moving truck and took it to his mom’s. That’s when the furniture moving started. His mom had offered us her dining set since she never uses it and we’d been looking for a proper table and chairs. Renting a one-way truck is much cheaper than buying a dining set—even buying a couple of nice chairs would exceed the cost of the truck rental! The first step was to back the truck into the driveway outside the porch. Tim did a very good job of backing the truck in, and I was glad he did it because I think Tim’s mom would have lost some of her plants in the process if I’d been at the wheel. We then somehow got the table out of the dining room, onto the porch (which is narrow and doesn’t have a railing, making it very easy to fall off when carrying large furniture), and down toward the truck. That was probably the hardest thing to move, because of its weight and because of the maneuvering we had to do on the porch while trying to avoid falling off it. Of course it being August in Texas, it was very hot outside and even hotter in the house. We were sweating profusely as soon as we started.
That wasn’t the only furniture we moved. In place of the dining table and chairs, we set a smaller table and chairs. That table, because of its assembled weight and also its shape, had to be disassembled so we could get it from one room into the other. Because of the temperature in the house by this point we were soaked. Then where that table and chairs used to be, Tim and I put a couple of recliners stacked on top of each other. Those came from the den, where we were making room for a futon. A bit earlier the three of us had gone to a house where Tim’s mom had seen a futon for sale. Tim and a guy who lived there loaded it onto his mom’s truck and we brought it to her house. When there was enough room for the futon, we carried it inside. This was easy enough to do since the mattress wasn’t too heavy and the frame was light and easy to maneuver. Finally everything was in place, and we beat the rain, which had been threatening to come down but never did.
In addition to the dining set we had loaded onto the truck, we also loaded a yard table that Tim’s mom had gotten for us from some neighbors who were moving, as well as some more chairs that she found at a yard sale. At this yard sale she also got lots of glassware and other things for the house. We now have some additional wine glasses and champagne flutes which are beautiful. We also have some nice placemats and napkins, as well as several tablecloths. There are also some things that the lady gave her which we aren’t too sure what they are or what we will do with them, but we’ll figure something out. Overall, this lady had very good quality things and most of them I really like.
As if all the furniture and all the stuff for the house wasn’t enough, we now have a number of new plants and pots of various sizes. The pots come from that lady’s yard sale, and many of them are in various shades of purple. For those of you who know me, you’ll understand how excited I am about them. There are also some large black ones that will be good for larger plants as I work on creating a mini jungle for us in our backyard. Actually I don’t know how ambitious I will get, but I do want to grow some more plants and then next spring put some of them in the ground and keep others in pots.
The plants themselves come from Tim’s mom’s garden. Her plants have been growing nicely and I love the way her front yard looks. Since the last time we were there some sunflowers have been growing wild, but she doesn’t like the huge sunflower plants as much as I do. She gave me cuttings from several of her plants and I now have them in water, hoping that they will grow roots so I can put them in pots. They are beautiful plants and would be a great addition to the ones we have already. Aside from flowering plants and plants with interesting leaves, she gave me a pot with several “useful” plants, including catnip (to feed Lena’s addiction), chives, rosemary, lemon basil, and a few others. Next time she will give me a cutting of a plant that originally came from her great-grandmother’s farm. I thought it would be neat to have a plant descended from a plant grown by Tim’s great-great-grandmother. He wasn’t nearly as excited by the idea as I was. In any case, I will have to ask what all the plant names are when Tim’s mom comes to see us since I’ve already forgotten. I hope most of them will still be alive by then! I’ve gotten better at keeping plants alive, but I still have much to learn.
So now our place is full of new stuff, most of which hasn’t been put away because we aren’t sure where we will put it or because it hasn’t been washed yet. It feels a bit like Christmas, except that we never end up with so many new things at Christmas. Lena was very confused yesterday and walked around among the new furniture and the bags and boxes that we brought in, and squawked with a confused tone in her voice. I’m sure she will get used to all the new stuff too.
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