Well, everybody seems to be taking things in stride, except for Mollipop. She is not happy at all.
The house is in complete chaos. I just finished cleaning the wall in the living room/kitchen and will begin taping shortly. When Rick gets home from church, he'll do the first coat of paint. So everything that was up against that wall in the living room/kitchen has been stripped of all the items and they've all been moved to the center of the room. The computer room holds everything that the entertainment center had stored and most of what was on the piano. The kitchen counters are full of stuff that was in the hutch. I boxed up all the knick-knacks and took down all the pictures. That's the wall that the new tv will be mounted on and we figured that since we're moving things around anyway, we might as well go ahead and paint that wall now while things are all awry.
I think, that of all the creatures on earth, cats hate change the worst. Even the tiniest little change in their routines can make them spastic. The other kids are used to us doing things and they're sleeping in the bay window in the sun. Even Tabby is napping. Not Molli....she's watching every move and followed me every time I took something to store in the computer room. She is not amused at what's going on in her world.
BooBoo, on the other hand, can't wait for me to get the ladder out....he loves to sit on the step-ladder with me while I'm cleaning the wall. I'm just using a mixture of water and white vinegar, so he'll be fine. He just loves the step-ladder.
We need to get that wall painted as the tv will be delivered on Friday (they were willing to deliver it on tomorrow morning, but we need some extra time). Still need to find some kind of media center for the stereo equipment and I have to find a bookcase or something for my books, although that may have to wait a few weeks.
But Mollipop thinks that the sooner we get this all finished, the better! (Shhhh, she doesn't know that we're going to finish painting the living room and the hallway sometime in June!)
Oh, and we planted two trees yesterday.....we got a flowering chestnut tree and a flowering plum tree yesterday morning at a local nursery. We love trees and they were having a nice sale; yesterday was the last day of the tree sale, so it all worked out. We'd like to buy three more flowering plum trees, but they can wait until next spring. Rick has been wanting a flowering chestnut tree for quite a while now, so he was pleased.
The house is in complete chaos. I just finished cleaning the wall in the living room/kitchen and will begin taping shortly. When Rick gets home from church, he'll do the first coat of paint. So everything that was up against that wall in the living room/kitchen has been stripped of all the items and they've all been moved to the center of the room. The computer room holds everything that the entertainment center had stored and most of what was on the piano. The kitchen counters are full of stuff that was in the hutch. I boxed up all the knick-knacks and took down all the pictures. That's the wall that the new tv will be mounted on and we figured that since we're moving things around anyway, we might as well go ahead and paint that wall now while things are all awry.
I think, that of all the creatures on earth, cats hate change the worst. Even the tiniest little change in their routines can make them spastic. The other kids are used to us doing things and they're sleeping in the bay window in the sun. Even Tabby is napping. Not Molli....she's watching every move and followed me every time I took something to store in the computer room. She is not amused at what's going on in her world.
BooBoo, on the other hand, can't wait for me to get the ladder out....he loves to sit on the step-ladder with me while I'm cleaning the wall. I'm just using a mixture of water and white vinegar, so he'll be fine. He just loves the step-ladder.
We need to get that wall painted as the tv will be delivered on Friday (they were willing to deliver it on tomorrow morning, but we need some extra time). Still need to find some kind of media center for the stereo equipment and I have to find a bookcase or something for my books, although that may have to wait a few weeks.
But Mollipop thinks that the sooner we get this all finished, the better! (Shhhh, she doesn't know that we're going to finish painting the living room and the hallway sometime in June!)
Oh, and we planted two trees yesterday.....we got a flowering chestnut tree and a flowering plum tree yesterday morning at a local nursery. We love trees and they were having a nice sale; yesterday was the last day of the tree sale, so it all worked out. We'd like to buy three more flowering plum trees, but they can wait until next spring. Rick has been wanting a flowering chestnut tree for quite a while now, so he was pleased.
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