Went through a week of hell in the house getting the interior painted and themesses cleaned up, all the furniture lumped into piles. Just as that was finished, took off for a hellish cross-country series of flights. Then found myself in Paradise for a week with my cousin in Nova Scotia. Ah, joy!! Came home (another series of hellish flights) and spend two days putting furniture in the garage for the carpet guys to do their thing. There was, it seemed, no end to chaos!

Suddenly, the new carpets are all in and one by one the lamps, tables puters and knickknacks are finding their way back to their rightful locations.

Order is being forged from the maw of disorder, harmony from chaos, and the new carpets and paint look terrific.

EXCELSIOR! And all that.


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