Changes to the household

Thank you for the brilliant reading suggestions on dragonology and unicornalia. I loved the discussion. My book stack is now so complex that it has achieved sentience and named itself. (It won't tell me the name yet. I haven't earned it, apparently).

One enters as one leaves: In order to tame it a little, I had given a name to the giant pile of Stuff in the main room. Unfortunately, I named it Hortense, so you can surmise how well that worked.

However, after a big push this weekend, the Beautiful Shed is transformed. My parents were in town for the weekend and they made much possible, including two trips to the recycling centre and one to the carpet warehouse.

I found a rug I think will be suitable...

( Do you see it? )

The place looks so tidy now that it hardly seems to be mine, though that's only true if you don't go into the back hallway or up to the loft.

It's an incredible relief to feel as though I have a house again and not just a museum of poor decision-making.

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