Although I was still sick in bed last week, I could use the telephone! I went surfing through the Yellow Pages and discovered that my favorite local cleaner for Oriental rugs, Interior Care, Inc., also does carpets. A few days later a young man was here to clean the ferret-stained, dust-choked Aslan’s Tent along with a well-lived-in chair in the living room.
Herb and I had gotten the furniture out so every square inch of the carpet is now as clean and good as new.
Yesterday, poor Herb had a busy Sunday doing all the things I had (graciously) consented could wait till the weekend so he could study for his finals and write his papers. The thing about “Honey-Do” lists is they just don’t go away quietly!
First he got the plywood cut at Lowe’s for the Dawn Treader berths and carried all four very heavy pieces upstairs. Halfway through, his foot slipped on the stairs, the plywood shot backwards down the stairs, and Herb went bounding stiff-legged after it, still hanging on. He jammed his ankle, poor guy, and was limping badly by bedtime, but it’s “pretty good” this morning.
After the plywood was ensconced in a berth (because once the Wardrobe is in place, we’d never get it in there!), Herb started moving furniture. I helped him move the dresser in, and he brought the antique twin beds from storage at Kara’s house and set them up.
Next, he brought the daybed over from storage in Kara’s house, and we set it up together. The rest of Spare Oom is a wreck, but now I can figure out where to move the rest of the furniture and then start putting the room together. Bit by bit it’ll get done.
This morning I began to feel a tiny bit human again, so I started on decorating Aslan’s Tent. Obviously, we need a king-sized mattress so this is just temporary. One thing I did do from bed with my wonderful iPad was research king bed sizes to learn that the base provided by our two twin box springs will perfectly fit a regular king. I’m not buying a mattress online; I’ll let my “fingers do the walking” to find out where I want to try out and buy a mattress.
The quilt is one Kara doesn’t use any more; we brought the bedside table back from Morocco along with the mint tea pot; and we bought the pink tea glasses in the Arab Quarter of Marseilles before we left France in 2001.
For now I’m leaving the silk screen prints made by two of our once-little girls and the beautiful garland handmade by a friend, although I’ll switch to Moroccan fabrics on the door. This larger bedside table is Moroccan, too, although I bought it for a song in an antique shop. Both the tables were beautifully polished by High Point Antiques in Chattanooga. Next, I’ll take them this little leather Moroccan lamp (a gift from our kids) to repair the curlicue that got knocked off.
This really IS the fun part! I love decorating!
Through the Wardrobe 