Sunday was a slower day. I was able to watch the NASCAR championship from beginning to end. Kyle Busch, #18 won in commanding style having a great ending to a less than stellar year. He is not my favorite driver, but he is a very talented driver and he is maturing nicely, not nearly as arrogant as he once was. Still a controversial young man, but fun to watch on the track.
I got some pictures hung in my bedroom. I have finally gotten all of the boxes in that room unpacked, broken down and out of the room. I was so tired of starting off the day with a view of boxes. So I had taken a day and worked on the bedroom. In doing that, I had found all of the many pictures I had hung there in Parkesburg. I had taken all of them around the room and determined where I was going to hang them. Then I did not hang them, giving myself a chance to think before hanging. I finally started hanging them on Sunday.
I have had LED light bulbs for the craft room for a while. I had replaced some and the first couple burned out in less than a week. But I had found some on Amazon and had replaced the two that burned out. They have not burned out, so I began replacing the others. It requires a small ladder and a chair for stability, but I go up and down to change the overhead fixtures. Does not do much for the hip that is now aching, but it has to be done. The high intensity, incandescent bulbs run the cost of electricity up quickly. I am aiming for a totally LED lit house. The hard one will be the light fixture at the entry door. Lots of bulbs and currently all compact florescent, so it is better than incandescent. It will be the last one changed.
So....Monday, Monday....
I woke up fairly early. Rob had planned to run some errands and then bring a replacement shear pin for the snow blower. He arrived at the house before I had even finished my morning coffee. He is such a kind person. He had dropped Kate off at work, gone to the hardware store and gotten a small bag of shear pins, and had come to the house to fix the snow blower while he waited for the Post Office to open. First he made a cup of coffee, then fixed the snow blower. We chatted about some things we needed to talk about then he lugged all of the broken down boxes from the living room downstairs. He figures I have probably gone through close to 30% of the boxes that were moved!!! I wish it were more, but I am really the only one who can do this. And I can only do so much each day.
After Rob left, I dressed, loaded the car with trash, a couple of bags, a couple of boxes full of paper (the paper from the moving boxes is overwhelming and there is just no way for me to unpack AND monitor the burning of the paper at the same time... so some of it made it to the transfer station), and some long boxes that had held odd things that had been purchased for the house. Just tidied up that garage a tad. Off to the transfer station. From there to the bank. I had gotten check from the homeowner's insurance for the Parkesburg house, but it also had Rudy as a payee. Because the house had been in both names, the insurance had stayed in both names. I just took a death certificate to the bank and since I had never removed his name from the bank account, it was easy, peasy. Just as a note, the bank recommended that I keep his name on the account. It has been close to 9 years since he died. If his name had not been on the account, I might not have been able to process the check as easily.
Then I headed, in the snow as it was snowing (fall/winter in Fairbanks), to Sadler's Furniture. It is one of the only furniture stores in Fairbanks. There is an Ashley Furniture but it is in the Sadler's building. My recliner came from there as did Rob and Kate's bedroom furniture. I was just going to wander around to see what was there. We still need a dining room table and chairs along with a living room sofa and perhaps a chair. I was also looking for just a little upholstered chair for my bedroom. Something I could sit on to put on shoes or just to sit.
I wandered around, ending up in the dining room furniture area. The tables had not changed much, but now that I have been in the house a while, I had a better feel for what would look nice. It could not be big as that room, while open into the living room is not that big. A tad bigger than a breakfast nook but a table with chairs will fill up the room... and a smaller table at that. I found one, that we had looked at before, and I think it is going to be perfect. It will be a smallish oblong table with four chairs that will be fine for the three of us or just me. There is one extension that will make the table about a foot longer. If we need more, then we will just have to set up folding tables. The extension is in the table in the pictures.
I did not want anything too dark, as it will show dust more than I wanted. I also did not want anything really light, I was afraid with a whitish kitchen and the wood on the walls, that it would just be pale and bland. I thought this was just the perfect color.
The chairs are nice and heavy. The seats are padded and the backs are high. Sitting on the chair, it was comfortable for the bum and I could lean back in the chair and my entire back was supported.
The nice thing was that this set was in the warehouse, so no waiting for it to be shipped up from the lower 48. As I was checking out, a young man was wheeling some new merchandise by the desk. There on the cart was the perfect, small chair with a creamish background and blue, gold and light orange geometric designs in it. The chair sits a little lower to the ground, but will work well for putting on shoes, etc. Right now I sit on my bed, which is high and I have to contort all sorts of ways to get the shoes and and get them on. I asked about the chair and Connie, the saleslady, laughed and said that the first one they got that chair in stock, it never made it to the sales floor. I laughed and said that this one might not either. The young man put it on the floor nearby and I sat on it. It was perfect. Connie checked the price and we added it to the order. Then to make it even better, they were doing a scratch-off sale. I drew a card, scratched off the circle and then Connie took of 38% from the total. Saved myself well over $700.00!! And it will all be delivered on Saturday.
Thanksgiving dinner will be in the dining room on a new table sitting in new chairs and eating off of my Grandmother's old china that is now out of the boxes it has been in for YEARS!!! The old and the new, together, just some of the many things I will be thankful for this year.
I left Sadler's feeling very satisfied. Now I need to really dig in and get more of the boxes upstairs unloaded and put away. Headed to Fred's for a few groceries and then home.
This week, in addition to unpacking, the electrician is coming on Wednesday to finish the electrical setup for the generator. Thursday I will be going with Rob to his lawyer's office to do some work on setting up things for maximum tax exemptions for the two homes. Friday I will probably be taking a break and meeting with the sewing ladies at St. Raphael's church. We may also be working to move the boxes that are left in the dining room into the living room so the table and chairs can be delivered on Saturday.
Busy, busy week. I will keep you updated.maximum
FYI... today the sun rose @ 9:40 AM and set @ 3:32 PM. And in Barrow, AK. the sun set yesterday and will not rise until sometime in 2020.
Are you ready to say Utqiagvik instead of Barrow?
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to the dining table!