Half of our garage was still full of stuff and I was ready to clear everything out so we could park both vehicles out of the weather. We had two matching smallish couches that Steve and I bought at a yard sale several years ago just because we loved them. We never had a place for them so Emily and Joe kept them for awhile when they lived in the Mason lodge. After they moved out, the couches came back to live with us in the spare bedrooms. At that time, another couch also came to stay - a black and white plaid sofa bed that Emily bought waaay back when she lived in Utah. She used it as her bed for awhile and then it was Steve's and my bed-away-from-bed when we stayed over with the Southerlands in St. Louis. Because the blue and white couch in my music studio had a permanent marker stain on the cushion, I figured to replace it with Emily's sofa bed couch. And, the current green couch in our living room was getting older and fuzzier so my thought was to replace it with the two matching couches. And, as a window of time opened up for both Steve and me Saturday morning, we pinned that as Moving Things Around day. We only enlisted Steven for four items. Granted, those included two........(I am embarresed to admit).....pianos (and one was a GRAND PIANO), the bulky green couch (that requires us to remove the door to get it into the garage!) and the black and white sofa bed that is a BEAST it is so heavy. And, Steven thinks the latter is what did his back in. Oh, Steven, please forgive me!
I am almost embarrassed to show you the end results of my
son’s pain. But, as Julina requested, I
will do so.
Steven says the couches scream "OLD LADY". Ya, I will admit that, but I still love them...
Below is my studio. I just love my yellow walls with the white trim.
Steven says the couches scream "OLD LADY". Ya, I will admit that, but I still love them...
Below is my studio. I just love my yellow walls with the white trim.
Besides child abuse, what else did I do last week? Well, I tried not to fall in love with a puppy that Sarah was fostering.
You can read all about it in her blog.
The Exploration of Identity
CIS had a concert on Tuesday. It was a “showcase” of all the performing
ensembles and each one played one of the pieces being worked on for our December
concerts. My Advanced Orchestra and the
CIS String Quartet did very nicely. I
did not put my Beginning nor Intermediate Orchestras on the program. We are still in pizzicato land with the
beginners and I have serious counting issues with my four little intermediate
kiddos. Even holding off to perform in
December makes me nervous. In cases
like these, it helps to have adoring parents and grandparents with ears that
filter out all the bad sounds.
Steve and I FINALLY watched my Netflix movie that had
been collecting dust. It was “Spellbound”
with Gregory Peck and Ingred Bergman. An
Alfred Hitchcock. And, while I baked
cookies for a RBHS orchestra bake sale, we re-watched “The Court Jester” (Fergus the whosler???) And, I finished my audio book The Scarlett
Letter today on my way to the Marcelline Branch meetings today. If I were to read the printed version, I
probably would have fallen asleep. But, it was really quite beautiful listening
to it read in a perfect British tongue.
As a sophomore in high school, I know I would have hated it. But, as an old lady, I enjoyed it quite a bit.
Now, time for this old lady to take a nap…….
