What is the use of grieving spring’s leaving when summer is in view. The daisies are everywhere. The ferns are shoulder high. The piles of pulled weeds are that high too.
Now a few days ago, Bonnie and I visited Acorn Music in Salmon Arm looking for a music stand. We had also gone to Churches of Salmon Arm Thrift Store hoping to find a used one there. Apparently there are never used music stands. Old music stands either get passed on to other musicians or become so broken that they are useful to no one. So the first day of summer was the day to go back to Acorn Music to buy both a stand and a music book: How to Play the Guitar, Book I.
Bonnie has been taking lessons by watching YouTube for a year. She has been using a borrowed guitar. After one year she made the financial leap. A guitar of her own purchased way down the valley in Kelowna. That is not to say there is anything wrong with buying the guitar there. Just when it comes to the free re-stringing, it is probably not cost efficient to get service in that way.
Our morning was going well until we were half way to the music store that is in Salmon Arm. Bonnie saw a garage sale sign. I was all for driving by but she slowed down to a crawl and then a stop. We studied what was available from our car: a free box of goods, blankets, ornaments, rugs to encircle the base of a toilet, a canner, a stock pot, wicker baskets, a wine jug on a wooden stand, a Chinese wicker foot stool. We either bought it all or had it generously placed in our car for free, even if we didn’t really want it.
We shouldn’t have bought the tall brass ornament shelf since there was no way for it to fit into our car. I thought it would be easily taken apart – maybe even it was modular. No. We turned around to go home and figure out how we were going to solve that problem. On our way to the car, the woman said, “I also have a two seater couch and a 3 seater sofa to sell. Neutral. Beige. It will fit anywhere. We followed her to the fourth floor of the building to take a look, she was also had a custom made chair that swivelled and an ottoman.
Why not take it all. Then our shopping would be over.
Glen and Connor came to be our pick-up service. David Camps-Johnson came to help too.
By the time everything got into Bonnie’s empty basement we had a fully decorated space. All we are missing is a carpet. Bonnie asked about the one in the woman’s apartment but she had paid $5,000 years ago for that Persian carpet and it was the one thing that was going with her to her new place. The price had been right on the other stuff so not getting the carpet was a small loss.
Bonnie thought she was making a space for herself in the basement where it is nice and cool.
Apparently David discovered the new comfort – which neither Bonnie nor I would have predicted. He migrated down there after unloading the last cushion and he hasn't come upstairs, even for meals.
Arta
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| The fruits of spring cleaning. |
Now a few days ago, Bonnie and I visited Acorn Music in Salmon Arm looking for a music stand. We had also gone to Churches of Salmon Arm Thrift Store hoping to find a used one there. Apparently there are never used music stands. Old music stands either get passed on to other musicians or become so broken that they are useful to no one. So the first day of summer was the day to go back to Acorn Music to buy both a stand and a music book: How to Play the Guitar, Book I.
Bonnie has been taking lessons by watching YouTube for a year. She has been using a borrowed guitar. After one year she made the financial leap. A guitar of her own purchased way down the valley in Kelowna. That is not to say there is anything wrong with buying the guitar there. Just when it comes to the free re-stringing, it is probably not cost efficient to get service in that way.
Our morning was going well until we were half way to the music store that is in Salmon Arm. Bonnie saw a garage sale sign. I was all for driving by but she slowed down to a crawl and then a stop. We studied what was available from our car: a free box of goods, blankets, ornaments, rugs to encircle the base of a toilet, a canner, a stock pot, wicker baskets, a wine jug on a wooden stand, a Chinese wicker foot stool. We either bought it all or had it generously placed in our car for free, even if we didn’t really want it.
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| Husband's brass collection, for sale now that he no longer needs them. |
Why not take it all. Then our shopping would be over.
Glen and Connor came to be our pick-up service. David Camps-Johnson came to help too.
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| Wyona's water colour prints of the lake already planned for the walls. |
Bonnie thought she was making a space for herself in the basement where it is nice and cool.
Apparently David discovered the new comfort – which neither Bonnie nor I would have predicted. He migrated down there after unloading the last cushion and he hasn't come upstairs, even for meals.
Arta
I love this so much. It's all perfect. Please come to Lethbridge to help us furnish our new place at the end of August.
ReplyDeleteYes, it is all there in the pics. We got the shelves; we bought 2 couches, a chair, the ottoman -- even that small round Chinese bamboo unit which I think of as a place to hold books but which might be a footstool. I have no name for it and tried to find a similar one on the internet, but couldn't. I do know there is one in Wyona's house if that counts.
ReplyDeleteThe picture of me which Bonnie calls "the fruits of spring cleaning" is really the pile of weeds I have collected and will now try to make into compost. I am shown peeling back the tarp that I keep over the pile in order to keep the heat in. I water it about every couple of days. Please tell me I am over committed to making compost and I will agree with you.
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