Tuesday, August 31, 2004
Weekend Update No. 9
Being that it is Tuesday, I can look back at the weekend with fondness and a slightly romantic recollection that was the week past. M and I have been looking for apartments, and that has been a trial of sorts for both of us. There just isn't nice apartments for us that we'd be happy in. The search continues.
The house is still on the market (come on, come on!) and Andy begins school on Thursday this week. He has his school clothes, new shoes and his supplies, so he is ready to go.
It is absolutely wonderful to have M here, and we have been spending time planning aspects of the wedding every day and enjoying each other's company, especially in church and in the kitchen. She is a true blessing to me, and a gift from God.
Have a great week, everybody!
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The house is still on the market (come on, come on!) and Andy begins school on Thursday this week. He has his school clothes, new shoes and his supplies, so he is ready to go.
It is absolutely wonderful to have M here, and we have been spending time planning aspects of the wedding every day and enjoying each other's company, especially in church and in the kitchen. She is a true blessing to me, and a gift from God.
Have a great week, everybody!
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Musique Concrete
I begin this morning to discover that compact disks can and will explode in your cd player. Perhaps not playing music, but games. It is reported in Infoworld, and I have seen this elsewhere, that a computer disc shattered in a CD-ROM drive that the owner of was playing Age of Empires II. Computer games helpful hint number 101: wear safety glasses while sitting at the computer.
When I saw the message about the exploding cds, "Musique Concrete" as a term came to mind, but that isn't really music hitting the concrete. Pierre Schaeffer is acknowledged as the "father" of Musique Concrete, which is one of the derivitive styles of electronic music.
Schaeffer was not a musician, but an engineer and a broadcaster. He was experimenting with "lock-grooves," keeping a phonograph needle in the same groove, essentially playing the same sound over and over. He searched for sounds to isolate in this way, and created Musique Concrete as a form of putting these natural sounds (looped, in a fashion, from the record) into a musical form.
Electronic music was characterized by sounds created not only for the note sounded, but by the attack (the quickness of the sound developing) and the decay (how the sound trails off in volume and intensity.) Synthesizers from Bob Moog had controls for each type of sound generated so their attack and decay could be artificially simulated, just as the sound was. Pierre Schaeffer was the first person to explore attack and decay in his experiments.
In realizing the concept of collecting more sounds and stringing them together, measuring their individual presence by how short or long he presented the sound, Schaeffer speculated that an instrument could be built that would play prerecorded sounds. The Mellotron, a staple of early Sixties Pop music, was a realization by others many years after Schaeffer wrote about it.
Schaeffer eventually presented a composition, made from sounds collected from six locomotives, accellerating and slowing, as "Etude aux chemans de fer" (Concert for Locomotives.) The reaction was, predictibly mixed.
In 1951, Schaeffer was presented with a tape recorder, which he fitted with 12 heads. He documented his experiments in music in writings and in books, and created rule sets for the forms of musique concrete. Schaeffer died in 1995, and is remembered as "The Musician of Sounds."
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When I saw the message about the exploding cds, "Musique Concrete" as a term came to mind, but that isn't really music hitting the concrete. Pierre Schaeffer is acknowledged as the "father" of Musique Concrete, which is one of the derivitive styles of electronic music.
Schaeffer was not a musician, but an engineer and a broadcaster. He was experimenting with "lock-grooves," keeping a phonograph needle in the same groove, essentially playing the same sound over and over. He searched for sounds to isolate in this way, and created Musique Concrete as a form of putting these natural sounds (looped, in a fashion, from the record) into a musical form.
Electronic music was characterized by sounds created not only for the note sounded, but by the attack (the quickness of the sound developing) and the decay (how the sound trails off in volume and intensity.) Synthesizers from Bob Moog had controls for each type of sound generated so their attack and decay could be artificially simulated, just as the sound was. Pierre Schaeffer was the first person to explore attack and decay in his experiments.
In realizing the concept of collecting more sounds and stringing them together, measuring their individual presence by how short or long he presented the sound, Schaeffer speculated that an instrument could be built that would play prerecorded sounds. The Mellotron, a staple of early Sixties Pop music, was a realization by others many years after Schaeffer wrote about it.
Schaeffer eventually presented a composition, made from sounds collected from six locomotives, accellerating and slowing, as "Etude aux chemans de fer" (Concert for Locomotives.) The reaction was, predictibly mixed.
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Although the composition is considered to be more of an experimental essay rather than a serious composition, it was significant in four ways. 1. An act of musical composition was accomplished by a technological process. 2. The work could be replayed multiple times. 3. Replaying was not dependent on human performers. 4. Elements were "concrete." |
In 1951, Schaeffer was presented with a tape recorder, which he fitted with 12 heads. He documented his experiments in music in writings and in books, and created rule sets for the forms of musique concrete. Schaeffer died in 1995, and is remembered as "The Musician of Sounds."
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Monday, August 23, 2004
A week without blogging
Wow, what a week! Glad to be back in the blog house, and also glad hurricanes are no where in sight. Florida has a massive job ahead, worse as so many of the displaced are still homeless.
My home is still for sale, and there are so many reasons (excuses) that homebuyers are not flocking to my house; the weather, the time of season, the phases of the moon, the karma of the street, whatever. I'll be mowing today, the recent rains have turned my burnt grass into a lush carpet. Perhaps that will enhance the curb appeal?
M and I have been busy with marriage plans. This past week, we visited our reception place and firmed up the menu, after having lunch there. We are really excited about The Lighthouse Inn and how amazing it is that we were able to secure the Inn for a reception in so short a time; it is a God-sighting!
We drove to City Hall afterward to get our marriage license, and that was kind of amazing. We wondered why the city clerk didn't have to check our birth certificates or drivers licenses for proof of who we are; merely a right-hand-in-the-air oath. That done, we proceeded to the bakery where our wedding cake will be made.
This bakery, in Norwich Connecticut, had to be one of the best we've ever seen. The woman who helped us, and is the owner, was so kind and patient to us. She showed us many styles of cakes and pictures of hundreds of unique cakes. M and I, being that our minds have been working on the same frequency since we've met, picked out a style within fifteen minutes. The owner then came and brought us cake samples (the fun part!) that we could try for the cake and filling! Oh boy!
The cake fillings, actually samples of cakes, has taken us until today to finish all of them, and we received them on Thursday. So rich and so varied, one was a white cake with a light lemon cream filling, another chocolate with strawberry mousse, a third chocolate with a cannolli-type cheese filling, and more. The list of fillings was long, and we discounted much of what we had, but enjoyed every bite. A filling on the list intrigued us, hazelnut creme. So we may make a trip back there.
M has settled in, and it is so great for me to be able to spend the days with her. With the three of us, it already seems like family (well, at times, with Andy.) Only 46 more days until the wedding!
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My home is still for sale, and there are so many reasons (excuses) that homebuyers are not flocking to my house; the weather, the time of season, the phases of the moon, the karma of the street, whatever. I'll be mowing today, the recent rains have turned my burnt grass into a lush carpet. Perhaps that will enhance the curb appeal?
M and I have been busy with marriage plans. This past week, we visited our reception place and firmed up the menu, after having lunch there. We are really excited about The Lighthouse Inn and how amazing it is that we were able to secure the Inn for a reception in so short a time; it is a God-sighting!
We drove to City Hall afterward to get our marriage license, and that was kind of amazing. We wondered why the city clerk didn't have to check our birth certificates or drivers licenses for proof of who we are; merely a right-hand-in-the-air oath. That done, we proceeded to the bakery where our wedding cake will be made.
This bakery, in Norwich Connecticut, had to be one of the best we've ever seen. The woman who helped us, and is the owner, was so kind and patient to us. She showed us many styles of cakes and pictures of hundreds of unique cakes. M and I, being that our minds have been working on the same frequency since we've met, picked out a style within fifteen minutes. The owner then came and brought us cake samples (the fun part!) that we could try for the cake and filling! Oh boy!
The cake fillings, actually samples of cakes, has taken us until today to finish all of them, and we received them on Thursday. So rich and so varied, one was a white cake with a light lemon cream filling, another chocolate with strawberry mousse, a third chocolate with a cannolli-type cheese filling, and more. The list of fillings was long, and we discounted much of what we had, but enjoyed every bite. A filling on the list intrigued us, hazelnut creme. So we may make a trip back there.
M has settled in, and it is so great for me to be able to spend the days with her. With the three of us, it already seems like family (well, at times, with Andy.) Only 46 more days until the wedding!
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Monday, August 16, 2004
Settled In
The move over the weekend went smoothly, and M is now a resident of my town! We decided to move on Saturday and try and outrun Charley, which was a good thing, even though Charley was outta here later in the morning on Sunday. Parking next to her new apartment, I fell onto the pavement while pulling out a mattress, and twisted my knee, but miraculaously, no swelling occured! It still hurts a bit, but it is all right.
I am in deep prayer for the victims of Charley in Florida. We've heard from my father-in-law's sister and her friend, and know where his friend is, but his niece and nephew haven't checked in yet. They lived in Bonita Springs, but we still expect them to be ok. The residents of Punta Gorda, Port Charlotte and the barrier islands are slowly going back to their homes, and sometimes finding nothing but destruction. A very large community of retirees, some had insurance, many not. I was glued to live tv from Ft. Myers yesterday on the Internet. It is eerie seeing streets and places I have visited with the storm's wrath exposed and rotting on those streets.
Many stories have come out of survivors, one of whom hid under a couch with a homeless neighbor. Another woman was found in a bathroom, 48 hours after the storm had passed, she still thinking that the storm was going on.
And with the power outages, the reason that Floridians can survive, air-conditioning isn't working. The heat index is over 100 as I write, and the recommendation is for people to drink lots of water, but potable water is very hard to find.
There will be more stories about people who have travelled from far away, even Canada, to help the people affected by this hurricane. Our prayers are with you all.
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I am in deep prayer for the victims of Charley in Florida. We've heard from my father-in-law's sister and her friend, and know where his friend is, but his niece and nephew haven't checked in yet. They lived in Bonita Springs, but we still expect them to be ok. The residents of Punta Gorda, Port Charlotte and the barrier islands are slowly going back to their homes, and sometimes finding nothing but destruction. A very large community of retirees, some had insurance, many not. I was glued to live tv from Ft. Myers yesterday on the Internet. It is eerie seeing streets and places I have visited with the storm's wrath exposed and rotting on those streets.
Many stories have come out of survivors, one of whom hid under a couch with a homeless neighbor. Another woman was found in a bathroom, 48 hours after the storm had passed, she still thinking that the storm was going on.
And with the power outages, the reason that Floridians can survive, air-conditioning isn't working. The heat index is over 100 as I write, and the recommendation is for people to drink lots of water, but potable water is very hard to find.
There will be more stories about people who have travelled from far away, even Canada, to help the people affected by this hurricane. Our prayers are with you all.
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Saturday, August 14, 2004
Coffee klatch
Hello kiddies! Now, can anyone tell me what a "klatch" is? Lots of people "klatch," so why not we? Pull up a chair and I'll pour out a tall cup of java while we wait for an answer. Coffee this morning is Gevalia Chocolate Raspberry, music is First Call's album Sacred Journey.
Tropical storm Bonnie has exited the New England States, and Charley is heading northward, albiet a weaker storm now than hit Florida. Daylight will reveal much of the damage, but it is good for some of Florida that the sustained winds that brought it to a Catagory Four rating yesterday morning seemed to diminish fairly rapidly. However, Punta Gorda and other cities in Lee, Charlotte, Manatee and Sarasota counties experienced the full bore hit of Charley. Tragically, a mobile home park produced a large loss of life, with possibly hundreds of people reported missing.
Charley presents a problem for me and M, however. On one map last night, it looked like the center of tropical storm Charley would be right over M's home area at 8 am on Sunday, and we were going to move her later that morning. It would not be a good time to drive a 14-foot UHaul truck up the interstate with tropical force winds and lots of rain. This morning, the map shows Charley possibly passing through at 1 pm on Sunday, but I'm going to suggest that we do this today and beat the storm.
Next week, I won't be blogging alone, as M joins me at the keyboard. 55 days until the wedding! And in an interesting coincidence, my two-year blog anniversary will occur on October 9th, my wedding day! Wow, what a lot of words have traveled out of the blog house since then!
Have a wonderful day!
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Tropical storm Bonnie has exited the New England States, and Charley is heading northward, albiet a weaker storm now than hit Florida. Daylight will reveal much of the damage, but it is good for some of Florida that the sustained winds that brought it to a Catagory Four rating yesterday morning seemed to diminish fairly rapidly. However, Punta Gorda and other cities in Lee, Charlotte, Manatee and Sarasota counties experienced the full bore hit of Charley. Tragically, a mobile home park produced a large loss of life, with possibly hundreds of people reported missing.
Charley presents a problem for me and M, however. On one map last night, it looked like the center of tropical storm Charley would be right over M's home area at 8 am on Sunday, and we were going to move her later that morning. It would not be a good time to drive a 14-foot UHaul truck up the interstate with tropical force winds and lots of rain. This morning, the map shows Charley possibly passing through at 1 pm on Sunday, but I'm going to suggest that we do this today and beat the storm.
Next week, I won't be blogging alone, as M joins me at the keyboard. 55 days until the wedding! And in an interesting coincidence, my two-year blog anniversary will occur on October 9th, my wedding day! Wow, what a lot of words have traveled out of the blog house since then!
Have a wonderful day!
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Wednesday, August 11, 2004
Tropical (storm) dreams
Like Mark, I was surprised to see two tropical storms in the Gulf this week. Bonnie and Charlie (Bonnie Charlie?) one with the potential to hit the Florida panhandle, the other to hit Jamaica. Interesting though that both future tracks from the National Hurricane Center (Bonnie here and Charlie here) show the storms heading slightly inland and up toward to New England and New York.
Rain, which I asked for a week ago, seems to be in the weather for the next few weeks.
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Rain, which I asked for a week ago, seems to be in the weather for the next few weeks.
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Wednesday Morning, 3 AM
It is 3 am in California as I write this, 6 am here at the blog house, but the title suggest Simon & Garfunkel's album from 1964 that was their first, and a decidedly different album than that was to follow. Highlights were "Bleeker Street" and the first version of "The Sounds of Silence." On the stereo right now is a collection of favorite songs culled from the Hits of Yesterday database, presently playing We Five's "You Were On My Mind."
Events of the house move and sale continue at a snail's pace. Yesterday, taking advice I saw on the Style Channel's "Clean House," I filled two trashbags with stuff stashed away in drawers in the basement and in boxes already packed. So it left me with more boxes to put more stuff in. I feel good about what I am taking and keeping; and have a much clearer picture of how I'm going to store boxes of stuff I won't need in an apartment for a year.
The snail's pace stopped on a potential homebuyer that wanted me to carry a second mortgage on the property for two years. Nope. If the buyer defaults, I'll have the house back; or more correctly, have to foreclose and auction the house. Not something I want to deal with. I'm hoping that the sign I put in front, advertising the open house on Sunday will collect a few more potential buyers. Time is getting critical, and a sixty-day closing cycle will be on my wedding day, NOT.
Today, I'm working at my church, adding more stuff (not the same stuff I am throwing out, mind you) and rewiring the sound system console. It was hot there yesterday, and while assembling TV carts (not very intuitive as you have to bend metal pieces to put them together) and I was drowning in my own sweat (I know, more than you want to know.) After talking with M last night, a cool shower was the best thing that happened to me all day (except for talking with M!)
Have a great Wednesday!
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Events of the house move and sale continue at a snail's pace. Yesterday, taking advice I saw on the Style Channel's "Clean House," I filled two trashbags with stuff stashed away in drawers in the basement and in boxes already packed. So it left me with more boxes to put more stuff in. I feel good about what I am taking and keeping; and have a much clearer picture of how I'm going to store boxes of stuff I won't need in an apartment for a year.
The snail's pace stopped on a potential homebuyer that wanted me to carry a second mortgage on the property for two years. Nope. If the buyer defaults, I'll have the house back; or more correctly, have to foreclose and auction the house. Not something I want to deal with. I'm hoping that the sign I put in front, advertising the open house on Sunday will collect a few more potential buyers. Time is getting critical, and a sixty-day closing cycle will be on my wedding day, NOT.
Today, I'm working at my church, adding more stuff (not the same stuff I am throwing out, mind you) and rewiring the sound system console. It was hot there yesterday, and while assembling TV carts (not very intuitive as you have to bend metal pieces to put them together) and I was drowning in my own sweat (I know, more than you want to know.) After talking with M last night, a cool shower was the best thing that happened to me all day (except for talking with M!)
Have a great Wednesday!
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Saturday, August 07, 2004
Saturday Funnies
On my blogwalk this morning I ran across two things that will start your weekend with a smile.
Kimberly at Number 2 Pencil has seen a site of collected Bad Baby Names. That's not a Bad Baby, its a bad name for a baby. And she has provided appropriate commentary, which in itself is hilarious.
Selling your product? First, hire a pitchman who can pronounce all the words in your product sheet. For instance, this guy, selling the Rockwell Retro-Incalbulator. (Note: Windows media player needed.) Thanks to Boing-Boing, whose readers also uncovered this data sheet for the predecessor built in 1944, the Turbo-Incalbulator. You'll figure out soon enough, that this was an exercise in obfustication.
Have a wonderful weekend!
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Kimberly at Number 2 Pencil has seen a site of collected Bad Baby Names. That's not a Bad Baby, its a bad name for a baby. And she has provided appropriate commentary, which in itself is hilarious.
Selling your product? First, hire a pitchman who can pronounce all the words in your product sheet. For instance, this guy, selling the Rockwell Retro-Incalbulator. (Note: Windows media player needed.) Thanks to Boing-Boing, whose readers also uncovered this data sheet for the predecessor built in 1944, the Turbo-Incalbulator. You'll figure out soon enough, that this was an exercise in obfustication.
Have a wonderful weekend!
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Wednesday, August 04, 2004
Hot and Sticky...
... with a chance of scattered thundershowers. I'd welcome any rain at this point, its better than drowning in my own sweat. The past week has had temps in the upper 80s and low 90s with dewpoints sending the humidity into the 85% bracket.
Now, before you berate me with "you don't know HOT until you've lived in..." as I have lived or visited THERE, Texas to Florida, in May to October. This is New England, and we are entitled to complain if we want to.
M has been with me for the past two days and left this afternoon for home. We spent Tuesday ordering flowers and invitations, and confirming her apartment for the next two months. As you can see, we are counting down the days on the blog here, lookee over to your right for the correct count.
My friend Brian at Hillside Nurseries and Florist (unabashed plug for you who live in or near Massachusetts) showed us his ideas on flowers and we presented our vision, which, for the reception, involves some flowers perched two feet above the tables. That requires some special vases, which when purchased at a florist will bankrupt a small country. Later that day, we ambled into A.C. Moore and found the vases for 9.99 each, praise God!
We then went to the printers to choose invitations, and realized that there are two classes of invitation buyers; those who have large weddings and those who have small. Of course, the choices for the small wedding buyers are thin, since you can order them in lots of 10 instead of 25 (we needed 30.) But, what we picked out was very nice, so they will be ready in a week or so.
On the subject of the vases, we first tried our local Christmas Tree Shop, which didn't have the vases but had a wedding section with do-it-yourself invitation kits (kick, kick!) but really, they weren't as nice as what we picked out (whew.) A book we saw gave us some more ideas, and when I saw a section dedicated to island weddings, I said "they should forget spending all that money on the Bahamas or whatever and go to Block Island." Well, this wedding in the book was on Block Island. That's off the coast of Rhode Island, which is off the coast of Massachusetts, which is attached to New Hampshire, Vermont and Connecticut but not Maine, even though Maine used to be part of Massachusetts. I know, I know, more than you wanted to know.
So, on our Wedding Checklist, we have picked out a reception venue, M has the wedding gown and is picking out shoes tonight, we've got the guest list, invitations and flowers done. And that's with 65 days to go. Can we take a break now?
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Now, before you berate me with "you don't know HOT until you've lived in..." as I have lived or visited THERE, Texas to Florida, in May to October. This is New England, and we are entitled to complain if we want to.
M has been with me for the past two days and left this afternoon for home. We spent Tuesday ordering flowers and invitations, and confirming her apartment for the next two months. As you can see, we are counting down the days on the blog here, lookee over to your right for the correct count.
My friend Brian at Hillside Nurseries and Florist (unabashed plug for you who live in or near Massachusetts) showed us his ideas on flowers and we presented our vision, which, for the reception, involves some flowers perched two feet above the tables. That requires some special vases, which when purchased at a florist will bankrupt a small country. Later that day, we ambled into A.C. Moore and found the vases for 9.99 each, praise God!
We then went to the printers to choose invitations, and realized that there are two classes of invitation buyers; those who have large weddings and those who have small. Of course, the choices for the small wedding buyers are thin, since you can order them in lots of 10 instead of 25 (we needed 30.) But, what we picked out was very nice, so they will be ready in a week or so.
On the subject of the vases, we first tried our local Christmas Tree Shop, which didn't have the vases but had a wedding section with do-it-yourself invitation kits (kick, kick!) but really, they weren't as nice as what we picked out (whew.) A book we saw gave us some more ideas, and when I saw a section dedicated to island weddings, I said "they should forget spending all that money on the Bahamas or whatever and go to Block Island." Well, this wedding in the book was on Block Island. That's off the coast of Rhode Island, which is off the coast of Massachusetts, which is attached to New Hampshire, Vermont and Connecticut but not Maine, even though Maine used to be part of Massachusetts. I know, I know, more than you wanted to know.
So, on our Wedding Checklist, we have picked out a reception venue, M has the wedding gown and is picking out shoes tonight, we've got the guest list, invitations and flowers done. And that's with 65 days to go. Can we take a break now?
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Monday, August 02, 2004
Movin' On
No, not me. This was a weekend for moves and move-related items in my family. Coincidence turned this weekend into a double move for two sisters- my nieces. Cheryl, with the twin 3 year old girls, moved from their ranch home into a beautiful, oversized raised ranch on a five-acre plot away from the traffic and noise of the city (and surely the close-by supermarkets.) For the smallest state in the union, living in her town reminds me of being in one of those small towns in Minnesota or Kansas, where you might be far away from the town. I told her to be sure that her gas tank is filled before she turns off the highway to her house.
Niece number two Diane moves into a 1930's era double decker, much closer to supermarkets, malls and Mom. She is going to have a baby later this year, so much was made of the things she couldn't lift or move, and there were no shortages of young men rushing to help. I played my part by helping to assemble knocked-down furniture; two side tables, an armoire and a microwave cart. I was able to bring home some boxes for my move from their empty stash.
And speaking of my move, the house is still for sale. I haven't heard any results from the open house yesterday. While the strangers were tramping through my house, I spent the afternoon at my aunt's home, who is also moving (in a couple of weeks.) She packed up everything, and now has to unpack some boxes to stay in the house a little longer. And the final moving story is that in a couple of weeks, M will be moving up here; I found a little apartment perfect for her this past week and it was confirmed Sunday. She will be visiting here on Tuesday and Wednesday (yippee!) so we can order the invitations, see the apartment, and order the flowers. The wedding date is October 9, and I can't wait!
I had decided not to pack up anything in the house, preferring to leave it "in-situ" to provide a decorated experience for the potential buyers. But I am packing the things away in the basement, and will pack up two sideboards in the dining room that I am giving to Diane and her husband. These were gifts of my father-in-law when Joann and I were married, and I'm happy to keep them in the family, as he completely stripped and refinished these oak pieces. I'll leave the sideboards in the dining room until I confirm a buyer, then everything goes! I am finding a lot of stuff to yard sale and sell through consignment shops. I think I'm going to have to inventory the stuff to keep track of what I want to keep and what goes.
Bien des choses à tous!
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Niece number two Diane moves into a 1930's era double decker, much closer to supermarkets, malls and Mom. She is going to have a baby later this year, so much was made of the things she couldn't lift or move, and there were no shortages of young men rushing to help. I played my part by helping to assemble knocked-down furniture; two side tables, an armoire and a microwave cart. I was able to bring home some boxes for my move from their empty stash.
And speaking of my move, the house is still for sale. I haven't heard any results from the open house yesterday. While the strangers were tramping through my house, I spent the afternoon at my aunt's home, who is also moving (in a couple of weeks.) She packed up everything, and now has to unpack some boxes to stay in the house a little longer. And the final moving story is that in a couple of weeks, M will be moving up here; I found a little apartment perfect for her this past week and it was confirmed Sunday. She will be visiting here on Tuesday and Wednesday (yippee!) so we can order the invitations, see the apartment, and order the flowers. The wedding date is October 9, and I can't wait!
I had decided not to pack up anything in the house, preferring to leave it "in-situ" to provide a decorated experience for the potential buyers. But I am packing the things away in the basement, and will pack up two sideboards in the dining room that I am giving to Diane and her husband. These were gifts of my father-in-law when Joann and I were married, and I'm happy to keep them in the family, as he completely stripped and refinished these oak pieces. I'll leave the sideboards in the dining room until I confirm a buyer, then everything goes! I am finding a lot of stuff to yard sale and sell through consignment shops. I think I'm going to have to inventory the stuff to keep track of what I want to keep and what goes.
Bien des choses à tous!
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