Really busy weekend...
We're still trying to get this family room in order. I knew it would be a job and a half. On Friday, I continued to stack and sort my books. By this time, it must sound like I have a million books-close to it! Only kidding. I've been collecting books since I've been a teenager. Most of them aren't novels but non-fictional. The big hassle now is trying to figure out if the new bookcase is going to cover one of the floor vents. If it does, it does. It probably won't lay right on it, but there will be air space around it like the other bookcase-only the edges hit the floor-you can see the mark it left where it use to sit.
Brian continued to paint the ceiling on Saturday. He's almost 3/4s of the way finished. He noticed a few areas that need touch up last night and he tried to fix a crack in the ceiling. We had to move things out of the way so my brother and Brian could move the old sofa out yesterday which wasn't any easy task. The sofa now sits in my mom's living room. She complained about it being a bit flat in one area (where my butt sat I guess), but that was one reason we wanted a new sofa in the first place! The carpeting is definitely showing it's age in some places. I think I'll have to get an area rug, maybe an Oriental for the sofa area.
Sean and I did go down to mom's yesterday. I skipped the Mushroom Festival altogether. Sean went up to it on Saturday and said they were charging for parking (he found a grassy spot for free), and everything else. I read that a 'sip' of soup in the soup tasting tent was $1 a sip! Are they kidding? Anyway, we hit a killer flea market where I went to community college and then we went up to my hometown for 'Super Sunday'. I didn't buy that many things. Of course I eBay shop at events like this and didn't really see that much. I got some green glass coasters that look like they are from the 1930s, some old snowmen figures (may keep) and a ribbon laced message board for the family room in golds. I got my mom an amber candy dish (she had asked me to look for amber). It wasn't hot, but warm walking around. My sinuses were bad yesterday too.
One of the highlights of my day was stopping off at my brothers to give him gas money for running his truck out here. His children made a big fuss over Sean and me. Ken sat me down at his computer and showed me a slideshow of their recent trip to Ocean City, MD which I enjoyed. I also got a photo of the kids waiting for the bus on the first day of school. So cute! They are getting so big I hardly recognized them in the shot.
The next cool thing was after we came back from having dinner with mom, her 'new' car was waiting in the driveway for her. Ken found a 1992 Mercury Sable (her present car is a 1987 Ford Escort) through a guy at work that was owned my the guy's mom. It is a pearly blue and in good shape. Perfect for someone my mom's age. She was overjoyed! She is usually so down in the dumps it was nice to see her smiling and excited about something. She took us for a drive around to my brother's house (around the corner). She had to figure out where the shift bar was first-yikes! Sean is next on the agenda for a car. Maybe he can get one in the new year.
Brian continued to paint the ceiling on Saturday. He's almost 3/4s of the way finished. He noticed a few areas that need touch up last night and he tried to fix a crack in the ceiling. We had to move things out of the way so my brother and Brian could move the old sofa out yesterday which wasn't any easy task. The sofa now sits in my mom's living room. She complained about it being a bit flat in one area (where my butt sat I guess), but that was one reason we wanted a new sofa in the first place! The carpeting is definitely showing it's age in some places. I think I'll have to get an area rug, maybe an Oriental for the sofa area.
Sean and I did go down to mom's yesterday. I skipped the Mushroom Festival altogether. Sean went up to it on Saturday and said they were charging for parking (he found a grassy spot for free), and everything else. I read that a 'sip' of soup in the soup tasting tent was $1 a sip! Are they kidding? Anyway, we hit a killer flea market where I went to community college and then we went up to my hometown for 'Super Sunday'. I didn't buy that many things. Of course I eBay shop at events like this and didn't really see that much. I got some green glass coasters that look like they are from the 1930s, some old snowmen figures (may keep) and a ribbon laced message board for the family room in golds. I got my mom an amber candy dish (she had asked me to look for amber). It wasn't hot, but warm walking around. My sinuses were bad yesterday too.
One of the highlights of my day was stopping off at my brothers to give him gas money for running his truck out here. His children made a big fuss over Sean and me. Ken sat me down at his computer and showed me a slideshow of their recent trip to Ocean City, MD which I enjoyed. I also got a photo of the kids waiting for the bus on the first day of school. So cute! They are getting so big I hardly recognized them in the shot.
The next cool thing was after we came back from having dinner with mom, her 'new' car was waiting in the driveway for her. Ken found a 1992 Mercury Sable (her present car is a 1987 Ford Escort) through a guy at work that was owned my the guy's mom. It is a pearly blue and in good shape. Perfect for someone my mom's age. She was overjoyed! She is usually so down in the dumps it was nice to see her smiling and excited about something. She took us for a drive around to my brother's house (around the corner). She had to figure out where the shift bar was first-yikes! Sean is next on the agenda for a car. Maybe he can get one in the new year.
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