It was a pretty chill week. I finished up all the “projects” I had planned to do during this four-week waiting period. The biggest one was painting the two Adirondack rocking chairs. They turned out nicely (if you don’t look too closely at the paint drips).
I have decided to hold off painting the wooden folding chairs for now – mostly because I don’t think I want them to be white and I don’t have any other color of paint. And, I don’t know where I will put them once they are painted. I altered some clothes for Melanie and for Steve – both having lost enough weight that their pants were too big. We have decided that in the new house, one of the bedrooms will be the “TV room” since I will teach cello students in the living room with the grand piano. So, for this TV room, we needed chairs (one for Steve and one for me) and we were thinking on the lines of a recliner for Steve and a over-sized chair and ottoman for me. We have spent the week going to furniture stores around town, looking on-line, and finally, at a used furniture shop, we found a very nice used La-Z-boy recliner in a faux leather finish for Steve. The search for my chair was not so easy. First of all, over-sized chairs – also called Plus-One chairs – are ridiculously expensive! Probably because they are the “hot furniture item” right now. I just don’t want to spend a total of $800 for a chair and ottoman. So I looked at in-store chairs, I looked extensively on-line (reading customer reviews, taking width measurements), I tried Face-Book marketplace. I just couldn’t decide. There was one chair at Furniture Factory Outlet that was the most reasonably priced ($329.00 without an ottoman) but I just wasn’t crazy about the style. It DID look comfortable, though, so yesterday, I set out to look at it one more time, to measure the width myself (rather than rely on the salesperson’s measurement which seemed dubious) but I also wanted to check out one more used furniture store, just in case they had one. On my way to the used furniture place, I saw that our gas tank was down so I took a slight detour to fill up at Gerbes (which gives rewards members a .03 cent discount per gallon) and I noticed the furniture store next door. Hmmm, I wondered if they might have what I was looking for? Well, they didn’t have any Plus-One chairs but they DID have a small love seat with a width just slightly more than the largest chair I was looking at. And, it was only $220! I sat it it, I walked around it, I thought about it, and I bought it. Even better, it fit in the Element so I didn’t have to pay a $65 delivery fee! And, I have already picked out a nice storage ottoman on-line with colors that will bring my love seat and Steve’s recliner together nicely. Success….
We got the inspection report this week and our realtor helped us compile a list of what we want repaired from the seller. It is a bit more bold than I would have asked and a whole lot more bold than Steve would have asked so we will see what he is willing to do. There are some obvious repairs – the plugged-with-tree roots-water line, the two mis-wired sockets in the living room, lighting that doesn’t work in the basement, the three windows that won’t stay open – but we also want the siding repaired on the garage as well as a new garage door installed. We haven’t heard a response so we are kind of on pins and needles. I don’t believe any of it will be as expensive (or as extensive) as what our buyers wanted us to do (remember the electric panel?) so we will see what happens. We just hope that whatever is done won’t interfere with the plans to sign papers and move in next weekend.
Additional news from this past week: We were asked to drive a long-time friend from Church to the Kansas City airport on Thursday. She moved to Colorado almost twenty years ago so it was great to have time to catch up with her life and the lives of her children. And, on the way home, Steve and I stopped at the Russell Stover factory outlet for a little chocolate treat.
We enjoyed dinner and Scrabble at our friend, Elizabeth Crippen’s house Wednesday night.
Thursday afternoon, I met Tamara and fellow ward member Kari Bailey at the church to give them a brief inservice on playing the organ. Both Kari and Tamara are pianists but have never dared try to play the organ. I really don’t consider myself an organist – because I don’t do the foot pedals. When in high school, my piano teacher, who was also an organist, tried to teach me a little about the organ but I never took the time to learn the pedals. My sister, Juli, had the same teacher and she DID take the time to learn pedals and she has become a good church organist. Right after Steve and I were married, my first church assignment was to play organ for sacrament meeting! Being at BYU full-time, I didn’t have time to go to the church during the week to practice with the pedals so I just played without them and have been doing it that way ever since. So, I am really not a great organ teacher but I did tell them the little tricks I have learned over the years. And, they both seem excited to try.
And, of course, Steve and I watched movies. This week, it was “Independence Day”, “Minority Report”, “A Beautiful Mind” and “The Rescuers”.
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