For two days I have been cleaning. I think it all started when I cleaned up our bedroom a week or so ago. I got a hankering for a really nice clean house... but then maybe it was the fact that I had this beautiful new loom and no where to put it. Or perhaps it is just that winter is around the corner and I'm feeling the need to hibernate or make a nice little nest for myself. Then again it might be that more and more Christmas is niggling in the back of my mind. Either way it has lead to a massive clean up/move furniture readjustment. Each night I fall into bed with a sore back and stiff joints. It has to do with the pushing and pulling of all furniture in this house... When I say I'm moving everything around I mean it.
Last spring I made a decision to put the dining room table in the big square room off the kitchen which had always been our living room.... and I moved our couch, chairs and T.V. into the sunroom. It was great. For years we had felt that the sunroom was not being utilized to the best of our ability. Day after day that lovely south facing room was just sitting there as a storage room for all my spinning and weaving gear and for our dining room table. When we had decided to build the sunroom we had made the decision to put a door in on the west side of it with the idea that eventually we would build a deck on that end of the house but as time has gone by I really have become sorry that I did that... I should have just put a window over there and not a door at all. We've never built that deck but do intend on building it at some time in the future. The other thing I'm really sorry about is that we didn't extend that room out a few extra feet. The room measures 5.5 feet by 24 ft. It is a fairly awkward space because it is so narrow. Not quite roomy enough for a dining room and certainly not roomy enough for a living room. It was intended to be used as an office and as a bit of studio space for me but what we have found is that I get lonely when I use it for studio space and want to spin where the familial action is. The office in the was alright but then we had nowhere for our dining room. And the kitchen is just too darn small for it. So in the end we have decided to use the sunroom for our living space with the T.V. in the summer and the dining room will go into this room off the kitchen and then we will switch it back to the living room in.... well suffice it to say that there will be two major moves a year. Which is what I have been doing. We're kind of like a bunch of Beavers with a summer home and a winter home... the deepest rooms in the house are the ones we will use for winter and the other ones will be the ones we use in the summer... clear as mud... I know.
Anyway here are a few pictures that you can look at to see just what I mean... and do realize that I have a long way to go before I am finished....
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| The couch is back in where we used to have the living room... I already miss the bright light of the sunroom. : ( |
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| This is all junk that was in my studio which needs sorting... I have a plan.... really I do! I see the cats have found a cushion on the floor... that figures. |
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| Looking toward the kitchen you can see that the computer and desk are in a complete mess. that's my next job this morning... is sorting out and dusting that area. Oh by the way I'm not packing to leave Teapot... the suitcase is the one in which I haul around my spinning wheel. |
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| My studio space has received the new loom as you can see but I'm still trying to fit everything else around it! The fore ground is where the mess is but I'm working on it. |
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| The dining room is in the sunroom directly off the living room... I haven't a clue what to do with all those stupid binders... that's all the work from my Master Spinner program... and the table is a little better now because I've sorted a whole bunch of that stuff... Actually Daughter #2 is writing her science test on the table at the moment... she missed it due to her outbreak of Shingles. |
I figure a big clean twice a year can't be a bad thing... it gets rid of any giant dust bunnies and keeps Murphy at bay... well it's my theory anyway.
Two days ago, Teapot and I went for dental appointments. For the first time in a very long time I need nothing done.... which means no cavities. Yeah! Teapot however, has a bunch of small cavities. Poor guy. It was interesting going to this dentist... it was a new dentist that we have never gone to before. We walked into the office and there was no doubt in my mind that dentists do really well for themselves. I went into the bathroom and there before me was a T.V. for my viewing pleasure. Then after I went into the office there was another T.V. over my head to look at while I was getting my teeth done. There were six chairs for the dental hygienists and there were four more chairs in more privates spaces for those who were getting more than just a cleaning. Then there was this huge machine for taking xrays and to be quite frank, while I was in that machine I felt like I did the last time I went for a mammogram... it actually was kind of scary... thank God it only took a few seconds to finish. Then as we were leaving they handed us a certificate for a free lunch from Quiznos. Like since when do you get a free lunch on the Dentist... I can handle that!
More importantly though, after our appointments were finished (and my gums felt raw from all that scraping) we went to the Telus store while we were waiting for our half hour after the fluoride treatment.....(we couldn't go to Quiznos yet). OH and we had fun! I have an iPhone.... like how awesome is that! I tried posting on this blog from my phone but it wouldn't let me do that... well, I haven't read the instructions yet but I'm working on it... Still it is just the coolest phone on the face of the earth. I love it. It's a big change for me. I am seriously determined to go into mod mode. I refuse to get left behind on the computer/technology front. So I have all the bells and whistles on my phone. And that makes me a very happy camper. I can take all kinds of pictures which I could do on my other phone but now you can see what they actually are and the pictures are pretty good. I can mark things on my calendar.... I already have appointments written down for the dentist! And I can access the Internet and listen to music and I can check the weather forecast. I love it... texting is so easy now... I have a touch screen keyboard on which I can type like stink... I love it. Last week I thought all those complaining about their Blackberry dying on them were nuts... now I can see why they were complaining... I mean I'm not quite that crazy but you can have a real love affair with your phone you know! Mind you I still hate people who pull it out when they in company and start texting on the phone... it's very irritating. I will not be one of those kind of people I assure you.
Each morning when I get up, my expectation is that we will be facing snow. But still the snow is holding off. I'm quite happy with that though I don't want it to hold off indefinitely because I know how important the snow pack is for summer moisture. We need rain for sure if we want hay for the alpacas next year. The days are mostly grey now... no more leaves on the trees. They have been gone for weeks. It is time for packing things away cleaning up the yard and getting the garden mulched. We always try to get it done before the snow comes in an effort to make spring cleanup easier. We have closed our tent trailer (actually we did that a few weeks ago)... which is usually open all summer but we have not put it away. It needs to be put away soon since it will get damaged where it is by a snow plow if we don't do it before the snow comes, so this weekend will be a time of getting the last of the work done in the yard, before snow falls... and more importantly stays.
Teapot will be going away soon. He has meetings in Victoria on the first weekend of November. I will be teaching Kumihimo braiding in FSJ on that weekend... I can't believe how time is flying by. This is the last week of October sure! After Hallow'een there will be no help for it.... Christmas all the way... scary thought indeed.
Remember my plan last year to knit silk socks for everyone for Christmas... yeah that was stupid! : ( When did I actually think I was going to get that done. I still haven't finished my first pair from my Cat Bhordi book... let alone decent socks for everyone... I must be nuts... mind you there is always next year.... ; )
Somehow I am feeling like the dark days are ahead and I feel anxious to get everything ready for those days of hibernation/ hiding away from the cold and dark... the lights are on longer each morning before I turn them off for the day and God help us on those days when the sun doesn't show its face.... I feel like I'm disappearing into the dark.... Maybe I need to start hiding away some money for a little vacation in late February.... even a trip to Victoria at that time of the year is a break... while we are still having snow and cold and dark, dark, dark, they are having daffodils and sunshine and bright light. Maybe I can convince Teapot to go.... we just need the money eh?!
Anyway, now that I have rambled on and talked about those mundane things that affect me each day... it's time for me and sort through papers and heaps of junk that haven't gotten put away yet in the great autumn cleanup of 2011.... hope your day is not as mundane as mine.
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