Finding Buried Treasure

or, in other words, changing the rooms of our house around!

Back in 2000, we built onto the back of our house. We put in a nice new bathroom, a 1/2 bath, and a large room to be a studio for my weaving looms. At the time, we planned that it could be our bedroom when we got old. We put it 36" doorways, and made the 1/2 bath wheelchair accessible. With double windows on both the east and west side of the room, and a cathedral ceiling, it was a lovely, light room to weave. I eventually accumulated 6 looms and WAY TOO MUCH STUFF!

This month is the time of reckoning. After selling all the looms but the two I want to keep, we have decided to move our bedroom downstairs. We don't feel old yet, but I was no longer having much luck in selling my rugs, so, as Ross said, "When the horse is dead, get off of it!" We ordered new bedroom furniture from Lindberg Furniture last month, and while we are waiting for it to come, I am working hard at changing things in this house!

In addition to changing the function of the former studio, we are changing three upstairs rooms around. One is now a sewing/weaving room, and the other two will have different furniture in them. One bedroom is set up the way our plans are and we are sleeping there until our furniture comes. My sewing room is making progress, but the other room--oh, dear!

Ken put rods in our closet on Saturday, and we can soon move into that. We anxiously await the arrival of our furniture. Finding new homes for things has been very interesting, and the numerous racks I have that have held fabric, and lots of etc. are moving to new places and functions. I moved one into my laundry room this morning, and then worked a while sorting through stuff there!

So, change is rippling through our house. I can envision how I want it, but it seems to be taking a lot of work to get from point A to point B! When I was sorting through my sewing fabric, I was hit with a wave of inspiration, so doing some sewing will be my reward for accomplishing this move! BTW, I am NOT taking pictures of the work in progress!! I don't want to remember it!

Other recent news is that I found out I did not get the receptionist job at Lee-Simpson. The interview seemed promising, but the longer the time went on the more I figured I did not get the job. I received a very nice letter in the mail on Saturday.

Ross finished up his second year of college last week with a 4.0, his third one! Now his GPA is up to 3.99. Next year at main campus, it will be more challenging but he is looking forward to it! Ross also went to Sheila Lindberg's (his cousin) graduation at main campus on Saturday. She will be getting married next month, so that means that not only are Glenn and Anna's girls through college but they will all soon be married!

Another piece of news with a twinge of sadness and happiness for me is that son Todd has bought Dorothy Jane Thomas' Mercury Cougar. He is thrilled with it and drove it out here on Saturday. I got a little tearful seeing it in our driveway, remembering how much DJ loved to drive and how much she liked her cars. Like a lot of maiden ladies, she enjoyed having a nice car. Back in the 70's or so she had a couple of classy Mustangs. She took wonderful care of her car. Todd got the car records with it, of course, and she kept track of every bit of maintenance, and every bit of gas she put in it including the price per gallon and the date! Wow, what an awesome lady she was!

There was frost warning last night and another is predicted for tonight, so my plans to put in the garden are on hold until at least tomorrow. This week we are also getting ready for the Reitz family reunion, which will be here on Monday, May 25.

Gotta go get some lunch so I can continue the treasure hunt!