KnitKnacks

The Six Hour Rule...

Everything is subject to change within the six hour parameter.....unless of course the 3 hour rule is invoked. What started out as plans for packing Someone up for a twelve hour 3 legged trip to GA yesterday, turned into root canal and a week off. When querried...he said he preferred the root canal. I think I agree...especially when it wasn't me having the root canal.

The USPS and AirBorne Express people gave rave reviews on the porch yesterday. I never knew so many people felt their lives were in peril...I SAID to use the den entrance before, didn't I?

So I decided I wanted to remove the door from the kitchen into the front door hallway. Doing so, provides a direct route from the car up the front steps through the front door and right on into the kitchen again. We used to do this 20 years ago when we bought the house. Simple, right? Wrong. First I needed to get at the door which was blocked on the kitchen side by a dining chair and a highchair, neither of which I wanted too far away. Two things were displaced from the dark room to make way for these two chairs which means two more things went to the already overcrowded cellar. The door on the hall side was being blocked by an antique pine icebox. ( sidenote: we actually used it for refrigeration for a week 31 years ago when we moved back to VT) You see for 15 years, we pretended the door was a wall. Needless to say the icebox innards had been filled with 15 years of debris which had to be cleared out and examined for ...um...er...usefulness. Yeah that's right! If I had just thrown out everything in there without looking I would have not found the golf ball that Calibear swallowed and had to have surgically removed from his stomach! Hey now, that golf ball is worth $300 in 1985 dollars! So now that empty icebox is in the living room where I really don't think it "goes" but I don't know where else to put it just yet. ( It remained empty for all of 10 minutes since I hid the Nintendo in it) I also relocated a painting from the living room to the hallway so the entry wasn't quite so naked. That painting never looked good in the living room anyway. While putting the chairs in the dark room I had to clear out some clean laundry consisting of table linens. There just wasn't enough room on the kitchen shelf for them so I decided all the linens needed the cabinet space where I keep the cookbooks ....which then needed to go on the shelves where the linens were BUT that is really higher than I wanted. So, I moved the margarita set and vases up where the linens were and then moved the cookbooks onto the lower shelf. There were too many to fit, of course so I then had to move some the craftier type books into the dark room where I also keep crafting supplies. The boxes of fireworks had to move off the counter space to make way for the crafty type books/magazines under the shelving still affording work space for crafting on the counter....of course. I'm going to have to find a better place for the fireworks eventually......in the meantime smoking in the brass bed is not a good idea.

I'm not so sure I like it though...I just might put the door back on...just not keep it shut, ya know?