The week(end) so far...
Jul. 10th, 2005 12:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kellan_the_tabbyI thought I'd written about the rest of last week, but I guess not...
Wednesday and Thursday I helped my mother move the store. Most of the stuff have been moved over to the new place on Tuesday, so it was a lot of rearranging and setting up shelves and such. It's going to be nice, I think, once everything's found a place. Less space, but moving everything into a new area meant that we could make things make _sense_ which they haven't done for a long time. It's hard to totally rearrange a working area every time you get a new piece of equipment, and so each new computer and engraver had to get wedged in wherever it would fit, and the place got more crowded and harder to work in. Laying everything out afreshmakes fixing that a lot easier.
I was going to go help her out on Friday, but by the end of Thursday I was about to kill people so I didn't. I called her late that afternoon, though, and she said that things were shaping up nicely. I'm going to stop down there sometime this week and take a look.
Friday I did a lot of Not Much, though I did get through some laundry and a fair amount of dishes.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fosveny left for the weekend before noon so I had most of the day to myself. I was feeling fairly antisocial, which was fine, except later on when I'd promised to help Ellesbeth get a washer, dryer and fridge from her mother's old place up on Honesdale and take them to her new place. I spent most of the ride up talking to giselle0002 which helped my mood, and Ellesbeth and I talked about a lot of amusing stuff on the way up. Some not-so-amusing things, too, but, well.
We got the appliances loaded with a lot of help from her brother, who's a bit of a roughneck but really nice. By the time we'd done that and eaten dinner it was about ten, and given the weight of the appliances and the length of the drive back (about two hours) I declared that we were _not_ unloading the stuff that night, and it was just gonna have to wait until the next day when we had Thugs. We got home around one and to bed by two - Ellesbeth stayed in the spare room and Miki was mightily pleased to have company for the night.
People started showing up around eight and we finally got rolling to the U-Haul place around nine. There was some excitement with the truck, swiftly resolved, and then we went to Beth's storage place to load everything up. We had three thugs, four non-thugs and Mary who supervised. It didn't take very long; it's so much easier when everything is already in boxes...
The truck was actually too big and some things shifted on the drive up. The liner to Beth's big crock pot was the only casualty that I saw and I'm pretty sure it's replacable.
Her new place is _very_ nice. It's the first floor of a converted Victorian, with wood floors (laid out concentrically, with occasional strips of darker inlay) and lots of windows. The kitchen cabinets are _metal_ and still in very good shape, and some of the lower cabinets have drawers which slide out. Great for pots and stuff. There's a cabinet with glass doors which she's putting her antique blue glass stuff in; that'll look really nice. The window frames and stuff have never been painted over, and they all have a nice dark stain. It's lovely.
What with one thing and another I got home late and exhausted. Today I'm a little achy, but my back doesn't really hurt and I'm _very_ pleased.
Lewis is on his way home and I'm trying to get a few more things done. Dishes are done, laundry is drying, and I'm going to straighten up some. Try to sew a bit, I think, work on the files, and get some of the Brechenmacher Project out of the way. And make a maze for Siegfried in a big flat box. :)
Wednesday and Thursday I helped my mother move the store. Most of the stuff have been moved over to the new place on Tuesday, so it was a lot of rearranging and setting up shelves and such. It's going to be nice, I think, once everything's found a place. Less space, but moving everything into a new area meant that we could make things make _sense_ which they haven't done for a long time. It's hard to totally rearrange a working area every time you get a new piece of equipment, and so each new computer and engraver had to get wedged in wherever it would fit, and the place got more crowded and harder to work in. Laying everything out afreshmakes fixing that a lot easier.
I was going to go help her out on Friday, but by the end of Thursday I was about to kill people so I didn't. I called her late that afternoon, though, and she said that things were shaping up nicely. I'm going to stop down there sometime this week and take a look.
Friday I did a lot of Not Much, though I did get through some laundry and a fair amount of dishes.
fosveny left for the weekend before noon so I had most of the day to myself. I was feeling fairly antisocial, which was fine, except later on when I'd promised to help Ellesbeth get a washer, dryer and fridge from her mother's old place up on Honesdale and take them to her new place. I spent most of the ride up talking to giselle0002 which helped my mood, and Ellesbeth and I talked about a lot of amusing stuff on the way up. Some not-so-amusing things, too, but, well.We got the appliances loaded with a lot of help from her brother, who's a bit of a roughneck but really nice. By the time we'd done that and eaten dinner it was about ten, and given the weight of the appliances and the length of the drive back (about two hours) I declared that we were _not_ unloading the stuff that night, and it was just gonna have to wait until the next day when we had Thugs. We got home around one and to bed by two - Ellesbeth stayed in the spare room and Miki was mightily pleased to have company for the night.
People started showing up around eight and we finally got rolling to the U-Haul place around nine. There was some excitement with the truck, swiftly resolved, and then we went to Beth's storage place to load everything up. We had three thugs, four non-thugs and Mary who supervised. It didn't take very long; it's so much easier when everything is already in boxes...
The truck was actually too big and some things shifted on the drive up. The liner to Beth's big crock pot was the only casualty that I saw and I'm pretty sure it's replacable.
Her new place is _very_ nice. It's the first floor of a converted Victorian, with wood floors (laid out concentrically, with occasional strips of darker inlay) and lots of windows. The kitchen cabinets are _metal_ and still in very good shape, and some of the lower cabinets have drawers which slide out. Great for pots and stuff. There's a cabinet with glass doors which she's putting her antique blue glass stuff in; that'll look really nice. The window frames and stuff have never been painted over, and they all have a nice dark stain. It's lovely.
What with one thing and another I got home late and exhausted. Today I'm a little achy, but my back doesn't really hurt and I'm _very_ pleased.
Lewis is on his way home and I'm trying to get a few more things done. Dishes are done, laundry is drying, and I'm going to straighten up some. Try to sew a bit, I think, work on the files, and get some of the Brechenmacher Project out of the way. And make a maze for Siegfried in a big flat box. :)
