it's looking like 'progress'

The house renovating is really beginning to come together. Pretty much down to getting the last bedroom painted and then trying to figure out where everything goes to put it back into place. If I were not so anxious to have it looking 'normal', I would take the time to go through all the boxes and get rid of more accumulated stuff. And the truth is: if it's been boxed up for so long, you don't know what's in it - chances are you don't need it, and won't use it, and will not miss it when it's gone. (Unless you Do give it away, which is when Murphy's Law says you will be so desperate for the 'whatever' you will make a special 'dedicated' trip to Wally-world to replace it with a new one.)

I have been trying to stay a step ahead of the painter, so pretty much had everything moved out of a bedroom before he started. Then moved everything out of the next bedroom into the one that just got painted: junk 'on the move'. So I will try to shift around again in the next couple of days, and move everything out of the last closet/room before he comes back on Wednesday. After that last bedroom is done, all that will be lacking is the carport - so I have to figure out where to put that stuff that has been accumulating for nearly thirty years: when that gets painted, it will finish everything.

It will likely take months to get everything cleaned, and all the dust from destructing the bathroom, and sanding sheetrock cleaned up. What dusty dust smoothing out sheetrock mud can produce! But it will be so good to feel like I am somehow transported to a 'new' house while still living in this familiar nest. All the things they have done to transform look so fresh and updated, down to little things I have long ignored: like ugly hardware on cupboard doors, and hideous light fixtures even a contractor would have to put on dark glasses to look at.

We're looking good... and on the home stretch!