Almost done

We're almost done!  Thursday night we went to the nearby Chinese restaurant for supper so we wouldn't have to cook then clean up, and thus were able to start our work a little sooner.  We've spent a couple of hours each night this week moving furniture around.  Randy is great at figuring out how best to move things, using a hand truck, blanket and tarps to save our backs as much as possible.  He plans ahead:  "If we turn the chest like this and put this side down, then it will be easier to maneuver around the corner," and he's almost always right.  Years ago he created to-scale floor plans for some rooms, with little icons of the beds and such; these have helped immensely as we considered how to rearrange these rooms.  Every time a piece leaves the spot it has stood for years it exposes the carpet and baseboard, so I vacuum there.  Last night we baked a frozen pizza, another easy supper so we could get to the next step of moving the beds.  Beds are now in place, though sheets need washing before they're ready for sleeping.  We ended up switching some chests we'd already moved, tedious but I think the result is worth it.

This morning after practicing organ I plan a visit to Target for a couple of things I missed when I went on Tuesday.  We will put the recliner in the blue room, the rocking chair in the green room, move the desk E will use, then work on finding places for the little things displaced in all of this.  I don't think the house will be perfect but it will be comfortable, and we will tweak things as needed in the coming weeks.