Michelle, that's wonderful. I'm excited for you! But what a drag to have to dig out all that old paperwork, and the shadows of the old feelings that still hover around it. << HUG >>

I'm still picking away at the combining of the households- the car is full of stuff for the thrift shop, but we didn't get out of the house before their deadline this morning because we had a major piano disaster! The lovely Steinway that my husband bartered a painting for, has a huge crack in the soundboard, causing an obnoxious buzz in the middle octave! It had been repaired appropriately, but somehow as the humidity and warmth of late May in NH settles in, things have shifted (also probly has something to do with the instrument being played more in the past 6 months than it had been in the previous 30 or more years!).
Yesterday we had one of the most highly-regarded local piano technicians in, and he declared it "not worth the repair".
But my dear husband, long-time furniture restorer and builder, and recent house-builder, spent all yesterday afternoon and evening thinking, and woke up this morning thinking some more (like a typical Aspy, all of this thinking was done aloud, at great length and detail...). Result- pull the piano back out from the wall, wedge in a few shims, and the buzz is gone!
We know perfectly well that with temperature and humidity shifting as it does, this is only a temporary fix. But at least I can stand to play the thing while we ponder the next step.