Over the last 10 days I have had help in the sewing room, I have been sorting through notebooks and pages of Embroidery Company sales books and recipes and craft patterns. I have saved all of the page protecting pages from all of the books and it has filled up an Amazon box. I may never have to buy another box of page protectors!! That is the tedious part of going through things. And it takes time away from larger tasks.
Last Friday I had dinner with Patches. She invited several of the ladies from church and her work to come have dinner and just chill for the evening. And I really needed it.
But, as I prepared for bed, I became chilled. I did not feel badly, but I could not get warm. I tossed and turned and pulled covers over me most of the night. I was not running a fever... I took it a couple of times through the night... so I have no idea what was going on. The next couple of days I just felt washed out and icky. I continued to go though books, but I slowed down quite a bit. It was not until Monday of this week that I felt like my "old" self.
But all of the lifting and bending and dragging of trash bags up steep basement stairs has taken it's toll on my back and knees and hands. Thanks goodness for my knee surgeries or I might be terribly crippled. But I keep going along and doing the best I can.
Sheila Williamson was over yesterday. We worked from 10:00 AM to 3:30 PMish with a break for lunch. We spent all of that time in the sewing room. I have now gone through all of the boxes of specific projects and fabric and patterns. There is a pile of fabric at the back of the room that needs to be sorted by colors/solids/prints and made ready for transport to Alaska. I have been reading on people who moved to Alaska and many of them said that they wished they had kept a few more of the tings that they left behind. Shopping in Alaska is not as plentiful as in the lower 48. So I will be sorting the fabric with that thought in mind. But I have come across fabric that has me scratching my head and wondering what ever was I thinking.
I made arrangements for Internet to be installed at the house. It went in yesterday. Rob was at house for the day. The folks from GCI arrived earlier and got things set up. But, in Alaska, they do things differently. When Internet is connected, you get an Ethernet cable, but no modem or access point. You have to provide that equipment. Thank goodness Rob has some spares at his house, so today he was able to get a wireless signal set up in the house. I am going to be learning a lot of new things about things being done... Alaskan-style.
Today I worked in the office. I still had a great many things to sort through in that room. So I started in the back corner and am working my way forward. The Embroidery Company laptop has been carefully packed up for the trip in the moving van. I went through all kinds of paperwork and shelves and bulletin boards and the like. I think I have pictures of before I started today somewhere... and I grabbed some current views to document the progress.
Still no drop dead date as to when the packers come, but I will keep doing the best I can and just be as ready as I can when they come. Anyone who wants to come help would be more than welcome for a couple of hours or a day or whatever. It seems to go better when there is someone helping move the things across my hands.
Dottie was here today from the moving company locally. She did not leave a card so I do not know the exact name. She went room by room and surveyed what I am taking to come up with a truck big enough to handle my stuff and give me an estimate on cost. Cannot wait to see that figure!!!!!!
So, off to bed. Winston gets groomed tomorrow. He is just so furry that he seems uncomfortable. I was going to wait for the days the packers are here, but he is just heavy with fur, so he will get his haircut tomorrow. I will try to get a before picture and then a snapshot after.
Here is an office before picture...
Happy Room view today...
** Note, Miles is under the table rolling around since there is now nothing under there to be in his way.**
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