Yes, Maggie, you had a friend over and cooked!! Good for you! Thanks for your kind words about the chair. I called the gal back and asked her to call me IF their upholstery person said they couldn't use it. (Bad of me? I just want to know it will go to a good home. I don't see any reason WHY it couldn't be recovered and she did say it was a beautiful old chair.:-)

That wall...oh, how I have loved that wall, esp. the colour, but it feels cluttered and wrong to me, now, even the artwork is going, well some of it. That wall is dead ahead when you come through the front door. On the right, as you come in, is the other red wall with some of the books. Those are some of the books I will be going through, the ones that have been friends for a l-o-n-g time. All of the furniture etc. has been moved and changed since that picture was taken. It's funny to look at those pix...it looks so much better to me then than now! I have a very strong sense of poignant sadness tonight, but a good feeling, nonetheless...feels as though good things are coming/happening...just change which rattles my nerves a bit, even good change.