When It's HOT Outside

Very busy today as I went through Dining room boxes.  Shuffled boxes into a group pile away from the wall where the China Cabinet will go.  Hopefully some more of our wood furniture will be delivered in a few days.  The Dining room has room now for a China cabinet.  In a few days, the drinking glasses will be displayed in the bow front cabinet.

In the meantime,

I will continue to unpacked the boxes in the Living room.

There is space to stack boxes and store them as we do not have our Living room furniture yet.  We sit in some secondhand chairs to watch the tele.  We're comfortable.  

I have hopes of getting settled VERY soon.  Soon and very soon.  Then I will have handled every piece of glass, dish and cooking pan including every thing we have in the house.

EVERYTHING.

Sometimes I squirm

because it's taking longer than I like at getting settled.

When I sit to cool off and rest, my mind races a bit 

as I think about what needs to be done.

Then I remind myself, we're making progress.

It truly is a big task.

EMPTY the boxes.

Get rid of bubble wrap.

Flatten cardboard boxes.

Get rid of them.

Continue packing boxes in the Cottage and transfer to new house.

Empty out storage unit.

Basic house keeping needs to take place all along.

Continue to look at paint samples comparing with the fabric swatches of the material that our Living room furniture will be covered in.

Continue putting everything in its place.

A place for everything and everything in its place.

Paint the Living room walls.

Continue continuing.

I continue to tell myself to DOWNSIZE some more.  WISH I were done.  Oh, how I wish I were done.  This is a time to pray and get after it.  

  I left HOME to go to the Cottage across the county line

 to use my machines to do laundry.  It will be a few months before the washer and dryer are relocated to house.

I want to have the majority of the new house

emptied of all boxes and the clutter organized BEFORE the machines come on over.

THAT's my HOPE.

It seems that my plans change.

STAY THE COURSE.

Stay the course.

I decided to use the 15 Minute speed cycle and LOVED IT.  LOVED IT A LOT.  The drying cycle on speed cycle doesn't seem to be the way to go to dry the laundry as things are not completely dried.  Coming out damp.  

I'll hang shirts on hangers to let them air dry 
while they hang in the room.  

Shuffled more boxes and carried some items to the car in this heat.  HOT at 97 degrees.  Have to move slow.  

Later today I hope to empty 20 boxes and group like items together for an easier task.  It is like a giant took all that we had organized and turned everything upside down mixing every thing up.

Piecing it all back together is tedious.

When a tea lid is in with porcelain figurines and the punch cups mixed in with dishes of a different style...it is a bit of a puzzle.

BEST to have a cheery disposition and whistle while I work.

Still looking for the last of my Blue Garland dishes.  

Where oh where can they be?

I am so very thankful we have so much to put away.

We didn't lose all.

I like how the curio cabinet is turning out with Blue Willow dishes and crystal.  When every piece is wrapped in bubble wrap

there is some labor involved. 

Am ready for a week-end.
A long, long, long week-end.

Am praying for rain.

Praying for energy,

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