Basement Update

The tile is one the floor but awaiting its grout. The walls are primed but awaiting their coats of paint. There will soon be new stairs and a bannister (on the botttom), new doors to storage and mechanical things, a new cat door in the door at the kitchen, and all the other last bits. He says he'll be done by Friday. Which is still amazingly fast, just two full weeks.

But then the hard part begins, getting everything back to "normal." Well, no, wait, I don't want normal. I want better. So there are books, furniture, toys, and so many things to relocate, things to toss, things to reorganize. The fun part, right? Actually, I'm really looking forward to it. To the house working. But I think it will take awhile (and some money, which we don't want to shell out right away, so some items will be catch as catch can--i.e., if we put a tv down there for dance and performance purposes, it will be our old tv on our old tv stand) probably a lot longer than actually renovating the basement. Gommie, we promise to have space for your aerobed in the new "library" by the time you're here in a month (or, maybe even a futon in the basement, if you want to try that!).