2008-04-17
The Snows Gone
Last Thursday I left Ed and Zaph at home and drove to Brampton (a little less than a two hour drive) to visit my friend Gwen who is at home recovering from a broken hip (the result of her probably last ever ski trip). It's not a complicated drive --- just a half a dozen turns or so in total but somehow I ended up in the village of Cataract --- never even heard of the place so it was a bit of a surprise. I'm usually pretty good with figuring out where I am and determining what I need to do to get to where I want to go but not today. I felt totally disorientated. During the drive I had sneered at the GPS Ed had set up in the car and wondered how I could talk him into removing it. Now I was looking at it as my saviour. After pushing a few buttons and selecting several incorrect options I finally got it to tell me how to get to Brampton. By the way Gwen and I had a great visit. Since I was now in the "south", I drove to my mom's, spent the night and the next day with her. I managed to drive home from there with no unexpected detours.
Over the winter Ed thought about things he wanted to do to the house we had purchased in the fall (I don't think the house was "real" to me as I didn't think about it let alone any changes to it.) One of the changes was rearranging the living/dining room. The room is not large and we put our rather large dining room table, my desk and keyboard as well as a couch, coffee table and chair in it. To say the least it was a little crowded and very disjointed looking. The finished basement was pretty much empty and Ed wants to create a "theatre" down there. A home for the living room furniture letting us move the dining table to the larger living room section of the room and move my stuff into the dining room section. Sounds pretty simple, right? The couch was purchased along with the house so we had no experience moving it. It's not a heavy couch just a very long couch and like all couches it doesn't bend.
As you can see the living room entrance is at a right angle to the front door. (click on the floor plan and you'll get a readable version). After many attempts at wiggling the couch through the two door ways it was decided that it was impossible. Plan 2 was to exit via the dinning room entrance then head straight down the hall and out the front door. Almost worked --- the hall narrows a little just past the hall to the bedrooms and the couch would not fit through it. Luckily there was a 3rd option --- exit into the backyard and carry the couch around the house to the garage and down the stairs into the basement. Ed and Victor were happy when the couch landed in the basement and looked good in its new home.
Ed and I did a happy dance on Saturday when the last of the snow disappeared from our front yard --- it's nice seeing green grass again. Zaph was a little disappointed as he was enjoying sitting and rolling on the snow --- don't get it but it made him happy.
Over the winter Ed thought about things he wanted to do to the house we had purchased in the fall (I don't think the house was "real" to me as I didn't think about it let alone any changes to it.) One of the changes was rearranging the living/dining room. The room is not large and we put our rather large dining room table, my desk and keyboard as well as a couch, coffee table and chair in it. To say the least it was a little crowded and very disjointed looking. The finished basement was pretty much empty and Ed wants to create a "theatre" down there. A home for the living room furniture letting us move the dining table to the larger living room section of the room and move my stuff into the dining room section. Sounds pretty simple, right? The couch was purchased along with the house so we had no experience moving it. It's not a heavy couch just a very long couch and like all couches it doesn't bend.
As you can see the living room entrance is at a right angle to the front door. (click on the floor plan and you'll get a readable version). After many attempts at wiggling the couch through the two door ways it was decided that it was impossible. Plan 2 was to exit via the dinning room entrance then head straight down the hall and out the front door. Almost worked --- the hall narrows a little just past the hall to the bedrooms and the couch would not fit through it. Luckily there was a 3rd option --- exit into the backyard and carry the couch around the house to the garage and down the stairs into the basement. Ed and Victor were happy when the couch landed in the basement and looked good in its new home.Ed and I did a happy dance on Saturday when the last of the snow disappeared from our front yard --- it's nice seeing green grass again. Zaph was a little disappointed as he was enjoying sitting and rolling on the snow --- don't get it but it made him happy.
# posted by The Agnew Family @ 6:27 AM 
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