We spent the Memorial Day weekend in Collinsville attempting to get some work done on the house before we move over for good. Dale got distracted and involved with making his bookshelves which are turning out nice and probably necessary since he has hundreds of books. He wasn't satisfied with just shelves, he had to make frames along the basement walls with what I call troughs at the bottom. He then began setting in old seminary faculty homes windows as doors to the shelves. The book cases will be in the troughs and behind glass.
See what I'm up against? And this is just the beginning of bookshelves. He plans to run them almost all around the basement.
I trimmed bushes and pulled up carpet and tack strips. The carpet and pad wasn't too bad, but the tack strips, ugh. That was only upstairs, the main floor carpet will be done (I hope) by the flooring people. Also, today the painter came and began work on the upstairs bedrooms. After that will be new carpet up there and the main floor carpet pulled out and the hardwood underneath refinished. Then we will be ready.
It was odd to be over there this weekend and no Memorial day parade. First time for that and it was missed.
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