O happy day!

Three months after moving I can finally sit down and feel like something has been accomplished. Beginning the day in the gym, for Day 6 of the 30n30 then home to dress and be ready for Mr. Scott at ten o'clock. Naturally he arrived at 10:30 when I had already been working for a couple of hours.

First on the agenda, shampoo the foyer rug (round 8'dia.), then onto sorting the Christmas decoration bins piled to the ceiling of the garage. Six bins have been paired down to three and two bins went to my sister's house.

That done Mr. Scott began to recondition the rolling oak bar that we once used for a TV table and brought it back to a clean finish so we can use it as a bar for our "Preview" drinks before going to the Club dining room for dinner. I love this idea of entertaining; ice, mix, wine and nibbles and a half hour later you are out of the house. That would be great IF we had the last of the decorative lights in place, the pictures hung, the pillows sorted and the stemware clean and ready for wine.

That may happen but not just yet. After the bin-sort and the bar polish, next came the hard part. Out come the ladders, the PHC (aka Picture Hanging Caddy) with tape measure, level, hooks, nails, you get the idea. We began to hang, re-hang and add smaller wall items to fill the larger frames that had been hung at move in time.

LV wall arrangement

Once the smaller items were in place, Scott got the job of Windexing all the glass, dusting the frames and using the level to straighten all the pictures in the house.

DR in progress

The purpose was to position and then secure with small balls of a putty-substance made for hanging on surfaces without nails. Only my purpose was to press a small bit of putty on the bottom two corners of each art frame and press into the wall.

Why this fuss over picture frames?


Each week the housekeeper dusts and vacuums the frames leaving them askew. It drives me nuts to look at a wall and see pictures crooked and worse - I'd have to get the ladder and climb up a dozen times to straighten only to do it again next week. Not going to happen.

So now the frames are stuck to the wall and secure enough that a dust brush should not wiggle them out of position.

I may be a fussy old lady but I am happy now that the pictures are hung straight!


Tomorrow is supposed to be my LAZY DAY, taking the Volvo to the garage to leave for a Monday  tune up

BUT  DH's car conked out yesterday, battery dead. So we leave early in the morning to get a Die-Hard Battery.  I'll take a Kindle and catch up on story time.