Found a bed... and packing, packing, packing....

So, after our failed trip to IKEA, we went shopping at Hom furniture. They are having a sale on king-sized beds, so we got our king sized frame, headboard and footboard for the price of a queen.

It is perfect for our room and goes with our antique dresser...

YEA.

I spent the afternoon packing the bedroom. I found 5 more bags worth of stuff for Goodwill.

I found a bunch of those space bags and decided that it would be ok to put the stuffed animals into them, because they aren't really animals and therefore don't need to be able to breathe.

I'm now going to pack the rest of the kitchen... sigh.

We get the keys tomorrow at 11:30.

If I'm not dead by then, it should be a good day.

I want it on the record...

that we went to IKEA and didn't buy anything...

We went looking for a new bed.

We found one hubby likes but I'm not wild about.

It is growing on me, but it isn't there yet... sigh.

Our old bed is too big for the new bedroom (it is a pretty massive canopy-ish bed). I'm just not sure I'm ready for the cheap Swedish look yet... maybe tomorrow.

Lessons from up north

We were at a pretty cool place on Saturday.

One of the demonstration was of the muzzle-loading riffles we gave to the Native Americans so they could dominate one another and help us wreak havoc...

A few phrases we use come from use of those guns.

"sideburns" refers to the place where men's hair would catch on fire when the riffles were used in a line...

"going off half-cocked" refers to the fact that the riffles have a two-stage cocking mechanism, so going off half-cocked was going off before you were ready..

"flash in the pan" comes from the two-stage use of gunpowder. Most of the gunpowder goes down the muzzle, but it gets ignited by a smaller flash, in a pan... the spark must pass through a small vent hole, and having a 'flash in the pan' indicates that it didn't do it's job igniting the powder in the muzzle.

We did things other than the fort -- we hiked up a really pretty river to some amazing waterfalls, we went to look out over the lake from a really high cliff face and we had high tea at one of my favorite hotels.

Sunshine's take on the lake was "damm, that is a BIG lake".

Lovely...

This week it has been pretty hot and our AC hasn't been working right. Parts of the apartment are nearly arctic and others are pretty warm. Packing has been either chilly or sweaty.

Today Sunshine will be helping me move furniture up to mom's... Mom lives far enough north not to need AC, but she may need it this week--sigh. At least Mom isn't far from some wonderful lakes and a vastly Superior lake, so we can spend tomorrow in some cool way.

Next week, when hubby and I will be driving furniture around town, it will be really hot and muggy.

We are staying in the new place for sure on Wednesday for sure... it has central AC and a washer/dryer. Right now we have dirty clothes and hot air.

I can't wait.

attention moving bloggers...

There are a few of you out there who are moving soon...

Good news -- a sale on boxes at Office Max -- File boxes, the ones with the separate lid that you can put together without tape... 10 packs of the Office Max brand kind are usually $14.95, until Saturday they are buy two 10 packs, get one free...

$1.00/ box for good book boxes is excellent.

Of course, I know y'all have no books to pack or anything, now do you?

Right where I left them...

my grandparents, that is...

Our quick trip was fun, just enough -- go down for dinner and some conversation and be home by early afternoon the next day.

I love my grandparents, but hate the "skyview" guestroom in the basement. We all call it the "skyview" because there is one tiny window and all you can see from the bed is the sky :).

Later I'll post a writing sample of mine I found while I was there...

It has been two months...

since I left the state.

Mom is going to see my grandparents (her parents) today. When she called them to let them know she was coming, they told her that the corn is ripe.

I can't resist.

I've been in BN state fro 60+ days --

It is time for me to leave again...

Mom is going to help me pack today, then we'll take off.

We'll be back tomorrow.