And so it has begun

We started dismantling rooms this week.  First pieces of furniture to go were the family room couch, the DVD bookcase,  and the iron bed in the quilt room.  Melanie got the first two items and Katherine Eschrich got the last one.  Delivery was on Saturday.  Here are some before - after photos......

 

 

 

 
 The family room will become our storage unit while we are gone.  The quilt room will hold my sewing machine and supplies because I am certainly not finished with sewing projects and won't be until the very end.  Currently, I am doing t-shirt quilts and I have the tops finished for mine and for Steve's.  I still have Sarah's and Steven/Tamara's to make.
 
 Steve's

 
 mine

We are still looking for a home for our dear old Trissy.  Sixteen years old and still going strong - although she is deaf, getting cataracts, is slightly senile (she keeps forgetting she has already been outside only minutes earlier), is arthritic but still manages to get up and down stairs, and she has this incredibly HUGE fatty tumor on her hip. 

 

 

I am thrilled to report that my bladder is now completely back to normal.  I have cautiously eaten acidic foods this past week and have felt absolutely no pain!  At big test was the lasagne (tomato sauce), salad (dressing) and cherry pie (tart cherries) I ate last night and I experienced nothing but a happy mouth!

The MMCO finally got to perform their winter concert at Parkside Manor on Saturday.  Here we are.

Steve and I had our interview with the stake president on Sunday.  There is a blank on my medical form and one on Steve's that our doctors need to fill in and I forgot to submit our dental forms (they were completed first and I wanted to keep them separate from the unfinished medical ones so I put them in an envelope in the back of our mission application folder and then forgot them!).  So, nothing will be submitted to Salt Lake until we get those three issues solved by Tuesday night.....

Rehearsals for the Easter cantata began on Tuesday and Steve is singing with us this year!  I got to do pottery on Wednesday and I cleaned and prepared six pieces for firing. 

And, on Tuesday, I got to have a deliciously decadent gluten-free patty melt at Oscars in Jefferson City after taking Sarah Everett to the Missouri National Guard headquarters to get a new military ID to replace the one stolen from her wallet.  (Her late husband was retired Navy and she gets medical benefits from his pension).  We were so hungry we didn't stop to visit the museum but I did snap a few photos of the old military vehicles parked outside.