Downsizing

Not that we're actually downsizing, but it seemed that way late Saturday after spending the better part of the day moving furniture from the garden room into the living room and emptying the back room of all its assorted paraphenalia. This was all done in preparation for a soon to appear construction crew who will be demolishing our deck and rebuilding it once again so it might become watertight.

As water has intruded into the garden room, the ceiling and some drywall will also have to be replaced, so moving the furniture seemed to be the logical thing to do. Our living room now has an eclectic, crowded look with two main seating areas, two couches, eight chairs (?), two ottomons, two coffee tables, a piano, and a multitude of paintings, vases and other decorative items. Only the dining room, of the three back rooms, has any furniture, and that too will have to be moved, sometime, somewhere, when the contractor is ready to install the stone flooring.

All that heavy lifting, coupled with multiple trips upstairs carrying boxes, and then gardening and washing both cars, had the expected effect of creating one seriously sore old guy. I need to exercise more!

Now all we have to do is to bring order to the semi-chaos of the game room as it acquired a few of the leftovers from downstairs. I also need to extract the Christmas decorations from the attic in case they become inaccessible during the construction. However, we have managed to eliminate or give away a number of items which prompted a trip to the Salvation Army.

I expect that my evenings this week will be full getting the remaining rooms in order while we await the start of remodel number 2!