Cold night, Sunny Blue Sky Morning

I must have worked so hard yesterday that I slept in this morning.  Then when I did wake up, I stayed in bed for another 20 minutes trying to talk myself into getting out from under the covers.  Cold in here this morning, even with my sweatshirt on.

Yesterday the plumber got final approval, and the shower and new toilet are now in place and working.  Bill and Kim arrived with seven kids (only two of their own) to celebrate Tommy's 13th birthday, just in time to see the new back door go in.  Then the builder informed me that I needed house numbers on the cabin to pass the final inspection.  So I went and got them.  The electrician arrived and installed more lights/fans and smoke alarms....but still didn't get finished.  He'll be back on Tuesday.  Then Annie and Doug stopped in on their way camping and took a tour of the place.  Then Jimbo and Ann arrived. This place was hopping!!

Jimbo was on a mission to get this place cleaned.  So we set about the task of moving furniture from the upstairs to the downstairs....which became a hugh task.  First we tried taking the loveseat out the back door and around the side of the cabin and into the sliding glass door, but the doorway wasn't wide enough, so Jimbo and Bill had to carry it back around and in the somehow got it down the stairs around the corner and into the new family room.  Then the fun began, we took the legs off the couch thinking that would help (which in the long run did) but then tried lifting it over the raining (the 3 of us women) and lowering it down to Jim and Bill standing on the stairs, and standing it up on end on the landing, but is was too big to get the rest of the way down, so we had to lift it back up over the railing and take the handle off the patio door so we could open it wider and then they had to carry the couch out the back door and down and around the cabin and into the patio door.  The coffee table (door) also went that way.  Then they had to put everything back together (the legs on the couch and the handle on the patio door) and started arranging it.  We now have the table back infornt of the windows in the old part of the cabin where mom always had the table, but it is now dwarfed by the room.  Need something to fill it up.

I guess that is why I slept in this morning....that and the fact that the smoke alarms were going off again last night.  They waited till I just got to sleep (11:30 p.m.) and then I had to get up three times before I silenced them for the night.  We now have five of them on this level, and I have four of the five now laying on the floor of each bedroom.  Something I need to discuss with the electrician.

It's 10:40 and I'm still writing and in my pjs, need to shower and get moving before company comes.  Love and prayers, m