Another day.

 Tim did more plumbing work, and when I was not required to 'hold this right there like that', I was clearing out the living room space. It contains four extra cabinets that we did not use in the kitchen. They will be finally pulled out of the livingroom and returned to the old house until we find a place for them. 

I've contacted Habitat for Humanity. We've been stockpiling stuff for such a long time. If we saw something on sale, we picked it up. Tile, two kinds of flooring, the kitchen cupboards, lights, both indoor and outdoor, I can't even tell you what all. But now that the job is winding down, we see that we have things that will not be used, and the idea of passing them along to a place that we know will do good would be an awesome way to 'pay it forward'. 

Once the livingroom is emptied out, we can begin to move furniture in. Our plan is to do this slowly and mindfully. We know that everything will not fit, so we have the luxury of being able to pick the things we love best. Mia will be taking a good bit of it for her house, which will help us winnow through stuff too. 

It's like doing the whole Swedish death cleaning thing...our kids are lucky! 

Anyways. 

We put the bathroom light up. Hung the mirror. Tim installed the 'canister' cartridge and now the water valve works. He went out and started work on the kitchen sink. 

I continued pegging away at the mess in the livingroom, sorting all the 'stuff' into electrical, plumbing, painting, saw blades and hole saws in one place, screw drivers in another, probably a couple dozen pencils or markers, half a dozen tape measures, wrenches, pliers, screws, nails, tape, ad nauseum. I also got kind of irritated with him. "Where do you want this?" *holding it up* and the reply came over and over, "Just throw that out, it's no good." 

The question begs an answer...so...we were saving this why? Honest to god. I was throwing away empty packaging. That's something that he could have done...but he doesn't. The extra clutter makes it hard to find stuff. Really, half of my job has been "Find me a pencil" or "Find me a phillips screw driver." 

So. Anyways, he now has a huge storage rack with bins as well as a cabinet and a 7 drawer storage unit in the basement. Hopefully, he will use it to keep organized. He's got shit everywhere. 

So. That's my pet peeve. 

But back to today. It was nice to be hoeing out. We haven't really got any pictures to show, just this, which stinks because I was in a hurry and didn't notice that I had not shown the lights. 

And yes. There is a toilet seat in the back seat of my car right now, along with another batch of plumbing things that we will need to finish up the kitchen plumbing tomorrow. Exciting note: I'll have a dishwasher. I haven't had a dishwasher for 30 years and this was a non-negotiable for me. I am pretty tickled about that.

But pictures of pipes and whatnot are deadly dull, so I kept on cleaning. I suppose I could have taken a picture of the kitchen faucet. I had a friend who was an interior designer. She liked to enter competitions and she had scads of things that she used as design elements. She had a faucet that she said was $1000, something that Tim found fascinating. "What does a thousand dollar faucet even look like?" he wondered. It seemed so ridiculous to us that anyone would spend that kind of money on a faucet, and he wanted to see it, out of pure curiosity. So. She gave it to him. Can you imagine? She also gave me an armload of fabrics for upholstering furniture, something that I passed along to another friend who made some magnificent drapes for his new apartment. 

Anyways. So...I could have taken a picture of Loretta's faucet. Maybe tomorrow. 

I hung out the hummingbird feeder I received for Christmas, and the lawn ornament that I'd received for mother's day. I watered plants and played with cats and emptied that space out. 

When we were done for the day, we came home, changed clothes and headed out for supper, and then stopped at Lowe's to get the plumbing supplies and a toilet seat, which we kept forgetting to buy. They had a special on azalea bushes ($9.99!), so I bought one for the new house. I also got 3 distressed plants, a lily, dianthus, and sea thrift, to round my plant frenzy off to $20.00. I couldn't help smiling to think what that same $20 would have got me had I been able to get to one of Northsider's carboot sales! 

Tim is going turkey hunting tomorrow morning, but then we'll be back down working for the rest of the day. I will get my new flowers planted and be as much help as I can be for Tim.

Tuesday will be a stay at home day. I am very much looking forward to that. I'm tired of this craziness of being between two places. Every time that I look, I've got a clock stopped, because I have forgotten to wind them. But, anyways, I'll use Tuesday to get all the last minute stuff done, and a lasagna put together for another meal for Tim, and then I'm as ready as I can be for my new knee.

And...after all this time, I'm ready. I dreamt last night of marveling over being able to walk and walk. Of course, I also dreamt that I discovered I had lice, so...I'm not sure what to make of all that.  

Thanks for the movie recommendation Jackie. I may have time to watch it after the surgery.