Wednesday, December 31, 2008

New Furniture!

As sort of a goodbye present to Matt and Bethany, we are sending our old living-room furniture to Seattle with them. So since the only furniture left in our front room was a piano, a curio cabinet and a grandfather clock, we had to go get something else to sit on. (The piano bench seats only two, and that's not very comfortably.) So here are pictures of our new stuff.

Here's the couch we ordered (which, unfortunately, I couldn't get a bigger picture of):


But it will be covered in this fabric:


And we have two of these chairs (no waiting):





This table is on order (not to scale in this picture, either):



And this table is already home:

Both lamps are here:




As are two pillows similar to (but not exactly like) this:

We'll miss the old furniture, but know it'll have a good home with the Hillarys. (Good luck keeping that white stuff clean, however. Notice it was always in our food-forbidden room!) And good luck in all your adventures up north! We love you!!!

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Another sign of Mom's old age

FYI: Heater hugging and hot flashes don't mix. Not that anyone else needs to worry about this problem. But it's a sad day when I have to practically run screaming from my favorite place because of a spontaneous combustion problem. Good thing this is only a temporary condition (this time around). Not looking forward to when it settles in for real.