Yay all, for the good work! Maeve, I'm hopeful the space will get easier to work with as you go through it. I also have a difficult room to clear...been sort of working on it for about 5 years.

Went through a sideboard in the so-called "living" room last night, rearranged the games and puzzles stored in it and pitched a few we never use. Discovered that someone must have been angry the last time we put the Monopoly game away, as the pieces were simply dumped in the box and the lid slammed down! So I straightened that up, and fixed the bottom shelf so Monopoly can lay flat instead of leaking parts all over the bottom of the sideboard. Discovered a 1000 piece puzzle we haven't even put together yet--it's still unopened. So I think I'll lay it out on the dining table for people to put together. We tend to leave them out and put a few pieces in place as we wander by doing other things. Not sure how that will work this time with all the cats--Vinnie in particular loves to play with stuff like this...we'll see.

Need to go through the old trunk I use for a coffee table, too. I've completely forgotten what's stored in there, but it's obviously been there too long. Then if I can get JiK to help, I may rearrange the furniture in the front room and see if I can make it more welcoming...

Lin