A little problem and a couple of pictures...

Not everything is going as planned.  But then what major move ever does??  In my lifetime I have moved several times.  After my ex graduated from University we moved to Wilmington, DE.  From there we moved to Fayetteville, NC then to Martinsville, VA before moving to Coatesville, PA so he could work as a Systems Analyst for Lukens Steel.  We divorced.  I moved to the little house along Route 10 and lived there from the early '80s until last September when I was packed up and moved just about as far as anyone can and still be in the United States... save for moving to Hawaii!  In all of those moves, somethings were lost, somethings were broken and somethings just no longer worked in the new digs.

This move has been fairly uneventful.  The only major breakage was the marble insert in the round table that my parents had in their home.  Something fell on top of the table during the move and there is a crack going in several directions across the marble.  I am still using the table.  The crack has not called broken all of the way through.  There is a place here in Fairbanks that can replace the marble, so maybe during the spring/summertime, I will look to get that done.

The upper level is pretty well finished.  There may still be some miscellaneous stuff that was packed in empty spaces in boxes from other rooms, but the bulk of the living room and dining room stuff has been located and the kitchen is quite workable.  There have been two small boxes living upstairs.  The contents go into a wall-mounted china cabinet that was unearthed early in the process.  It shows off my collection of hummingbird stuff and locks with a small key.  The little cabinet is stuffed with packing newsprint and was locked for the journey.  I have not located where the packers put the key.  So until I find the key, we cannot hang the cabinet and we cannot put the hummingbird stuff away.

I had the bright idea that perhaps the packers had put the key in the box with the collection, so Saturday I unpacked the two little boxes.  One little ceramic hummingbird was broken.  The hummingbird was a hanging ornament and the little bird was sucking on a flower.  The little flower broke off at the tip of the beak, so it is completely fixable.  Other than that, everything survived.

This is the little china cabinet.  It has been living here in the hallway to the bedrooms for quite awhile.

These are the things that need to go into the cabinet.  There were a couple of bigger pieces that need to go into the bigger cabinet... except it has been filled, so I will need to do some creative displaying.

I am hoping I can figure out where the key has gone!!

Yesterday, I decided to try a new bread recipe.  I had found it online and it seemed like it should be very easy.  It is a No-knead Peasant Bread.  So I got to dirty up my kitchen and create some really good bread that was so very simple.  I ordered two round, glass, oven-proof 1 1/2 quart bowls to make them from Amazon and I think it turned out well.

I am loving this kitchen.  I have so much counter space to work with.  And cabinet space to hold all of my equipment is wonderful.  I no longer have things living on the porch!!

This is the space on the other side of the galley kitchen design.  Note the two bowls that will be full of bread shortly.

Literally, no-kneading involved.  Just mix and let it rise, then punch it down, divide into two blobs and put it into the greased bowls.  Rise again, then bake.  Smells so good and tastes even better.

There are all kinds of variations for this bread, so this may only be the beginning.  I am going to need a good supply of flour to test them all out!!

Finally, I took a couple of pictures of my bedroom.  It is also pretty much finished.  My youngest son, Brian, told me that I should have left the bedroom set behind.  It was not solid wood, so he felt it was not worth paying to move.  But I really liked it when I got it many years ago.  There were a couple of corners on the bottom edges that got chipped (particleboard that is frozen solid chips easily), but it is not noticeable to anyone but me and I can ignore that.  It is the one room that feels the most comfortable for me.  I have been adding pictures a few at a time.  Some of them were in the bedroom on PA, some were in the office in PA and some had lived in Maryland for a bit and then covered and wrapped for the move back to PA and left that way until this move.

This room was actually used as a family room.  The room I am using as a craft room was the room the family had used as the Master Bedroom.  I had thought of using it for that and crafts, but thought better of that and separated my bedroom and craft room.  That way my bedroom will not be cluttered with projects.  It will be my calm and peaceful place.  The three small stools/steps are for Miles to get up on the bed.  I have all three there, but they will be going down to just one, soon!!  The blanket on the floor is where Winston likes to bury his toys.  And the basket is one of two in this room that contains the dog's toys.  It is a daily process of gathering them into the basket for me and the dogs taking them out to play!!

This is my bureau with a mirror. I had planned to have it on the same wall as the bed, but after the movers got the bed in place I knew that it would crowd that wall.  This wall has the sauna behind it.  If you go back to the original pictures of the house, you will see that there is an octagonal window looking into the sauna.  I decided that I would use the mirror to block that window.  It worked out perfectly!!

This is the wall at the end of the room, across from the bed.  This is the wall where the stairs are located.  The tall dresser was where Rudy had his clothes.  I have now filled it with my stuff.  The bookcase was in the dining room in PA.  The DVD stand was one of two.  I have one in my bedroom and the other is upstairs at the top of the steps.  The small chair was added after I got here.  It is a place to sit and put on shoes or remove the taller snow boots.  The small TV is the TV that traveled with me on our trip across the country.  It was also my only entertainment until the van arrived in October.  It will be moving upstairs and into the guest room as a backup TV or as a Travel TV for trips around Alaska or into Canada in the future.

The sun has popped out this morning.  The snow has stopped.  I have not looked outside yet to see how much came down, but I am guessing that either this afternoon or tomorrow I will be blowing snow off the driveway.

Hope you all have a great week.  I am planning to have one terrific week, regardless of what I manage to get done!!