We got everything paid for including $650.00 of the $750.00 rent that is due in three days.

If any of you have ever moved... (and who hasn't), can you remember the chaos of having everything in boxes and not being able to find what you need to do the job?

That's where I am right now. My living room and basement and one of the pods are still piled high with boxes. As I have been unpacking things that I haven't seen in a while, I realize that I have a good start for an ebay store.

I collect dishes, pots and pans and small pieces of furniture from the depression era. That's what I grew up with and when I find something that is similar or exactly what we had in our home, I am overjoyed for a day or so. Those are the dishes that I am looking for in the hundreds of boxes that fill my basement.

This house has a dining room that used to be the back screened in porch. It runs the entire length of the house. It has windows on two sides and is bright and airy and is my favorite room in the house... besides the two bathrooms that are both big enough to put beds in them. I have never seen such big bathrooms. I have a table and two chairs in mine. For putting on makeup... not for serving dinner!!

The kitchen is like most kitchens... too small with inadequate storage. But the dining room makes up for it. There is also a kitchen nook where I have a large old maple hutch, a baker's rack and two of those enamel tables from the fifties. I'm only going to be able to use one, but they are so hard to come by that I don't want to sell the other. Once I get all the boxes and bookcases out of the living room, maybe I'll put one in the corner. I hate to admit it, but I still eat dinner in from of the television. It's the only time I can catch up on the news and what the MSM is trying to sell us on for the day.

You have all made the move so much easier because of your donations. I went through all of my own money paying the movers and buying odds and ends that I didn't know I needed until I didn't have them.

I need a hundred more to pay the rent and then I am going to have to pay something on the $2200.00 electric bill. My phones were turned off for non payment. I find that I do just fine with no phone so it will be a while before I bother to have it turned back on. I am using Skype to make the important calls and I think I will actually by the skype phone so I can answer it anywhere in the house and not just at my computer. If anyone is using Skype phones, let me know what you think of them.

My dog Max is barking at something. Either there is someone at the front door or he has a mouse "treed". I'd better check.

More later...

Raye