Catching up........

It was a long busy summer. New granddaughters. Andrew and Amie moving to D.C. Summer lunch program. Grandma 'Carty having another stroke on Father's Day, and having to move from assisted living to nursing care. I'm ready for things to slow down a little, so I'm doing a new post, finally.



Last week when we had temperatures in the upper sixties, we had this rainbow. It was double, and we could see both ends of it. This was the last of it, as it was disappearing.











Our big excitement last week (before our trip to D.C.) was the arrival of our new bedroom furniture. Opa and I figured that after 37 1/2 years we could treat ourselves.



In preparation for the furniture we did a lot of furniture moving. Another incentive was that the weekend of Nov. 14, Sandy and Karen Christophel came and stayed with us for the weekend. They were in town for the library's 75th. anniversary.



As we were preparing for their visit, it became apparent that the bed downstairs in the guest bedroom was going to be too short for Sandy to lie down on, and too tall for Karen to get into. So we decided to do our planned furniture moves a little early. We moved our old bed downstairs to the guest room, along with our old dresser. The high back bed and rocking chair from the dining room went up to Micah's room. We donated the twin bed to some folks had a need.



So we slept in Micah's room until the furniture came. And as you can see from the photos, we had a pretty empty room upstairs. It seemed like the perfect time to get the carpets cleaned, so I had Stanley Steemer come and do our room and the guest room.



















To complicate things, I had a funeral dinner to supervise the day the furniture was supposed to come. So Anna and Eryn volunteered to come up and wait for the new things. Eryn is growing and learning new things all the time. She still has her "queen wave" going on.....










The day after the furniture came we went to Bob Evans for lunch. Eryn was by far the cutest customer in the room.














I'm sure most of you saw the Starbucks picture of me and Eryn on Anna's facebook page. This little grouping was taken the same afternoon, out in Opa's "thinking room," the room formerly known as "the back porch." The new name is courtesy of Mark Longenecker.



As much as Jordan wants nothing to do with Sydney, Eryn seems to think she's pretty amusing. She likes to pat (whack) Sydney on the top of the head, which Sydney loves. And Eryn just laughs when Sydney comes charging over at full speed. She doesn't seem to mind high-decibel barking, either. So Sydney has found a new fan.





Well, the new furniture did arrive, and here is a shot of the bed and night stand. You can get a little glimpse of the new curtains behind the bed. I have the bed in front of the south window in our room. In another post I will try to get some more pictures to give a better idea of the new look in all the bedrooms. But the goal is that when you all come to visit, you will have comfy, cozy places to stay.



More soon!