Current and Next-Up Reading

Having some time to get settled, I have now begun to quickly build up my reading pile. The current pile began with two books but has blown to six, including one I just added today after a trip to our local library.

The future pile (or stack if you prefer) is very likely to change, but at least it is a start.

One of the current - "In the Garden of Beasts" is a B&B book group selection, and one  - "A Wicked War" - is one I am reviewing for the Stonewall Jackson House.

I'm Baaack...Well, Sort of

It's been quite a while. We are now moved into our new home in our new town. Stuarts Draft. About 30 miles north of Lexington. The big thing about the house is it is all on one floor. And I have been able to put all of my books except for about 50 in the house. Those fifty are in the garage on shelves for now. I don't have any room for them. In fact, I had to buy two more bookcases and double shelved them to get as many as I did.

And I had to buy new bookends - a globe on one end and a telescope and small compass on the other - to add a row on top! Anyhow, the books are in. I will be posting more pictures and talking about other matters besides my books and house in the future - after a while of course. This post was just to get back in the habit of doing it.

Things

Cleaning out in the loft this morning, I was getting rid of old magazines that had accumulated in a rack that my mother had. I found this at the bottom. I lived there for most of my youth and college. We moved there in 1956. Mom left it in 2004.

It was an old return sticker for an envelope. You remember envelopes, don't you? It's how we used to get letters.

Spent part of the day filing papers that should have been filed or cleaned out long, long ago. The last hour I have been prepping for tomorrow's book group meeting. Looking forward to it. I'll spend some time hopefully on that tomorrow. 

It's getting hard to write each day when so much other stuff needs to be done for the move. 

Bye for now.

Moving 2

Short post, have too much to do. Been busy all day working in the garage making room for boxes to move as well as selecting what could be sold at a yard sale. Not promising yet. The few large items we may put on a site that sells things like that. I forget the name, but our middle daughter suggested it.

Photos of the garage this morning:

I'll update as I can. 

I did spend yesterday attending the Jackson Symposium at VMI. It was very interesting. The ladies at the SJH did a fantastic job. My favorite presentation, though all were good, was about Jackson's books, given by Robert Krick (the senior). He talked about which ones he wrote in and where they were. 

The only thing I didn't like was a quote from someone (I forget who it was) that Krick said to be very suspicious of a man who hasn't read all his books. I told Professor Krick during a break that it described me. He laughed and said "Me too!"

The following inscription is in a bible that Jackson bought for his sister Laura. We have this bible under glass at the museum.

Well, back to work. I have a book group meeting Tuesday and need to look over the discussions one more time.

Moving

I thought I remembered reading somewhere that moving was very high of the stresses of life list. Looked it up today on the Holmes and Rahe Stress Scale and it wasn't even in the top ten. I had to look further down the list and found it at number 32 (if the list continued in stress order so to speak). Right now, I would put it in my top five for sure.

Had a mover estimator come this afternoon to look around. He will work up an estimate and send it to us in a day or so. He estimated we would pack about 40 boxes and they would pack about 90, mostly books in both cases. I think that's right.

And the books keep going back on both sides of the picture. This doesn't include the books in the living room and downstairs bedroom. And we won't talk about the garage.

We're going to have a yard sale, but initially, we were concentrating on stuff that we haven't used for a long time, or in many cases since we moved to Virginia. I was going to include some books, but now have to revise my thinking. Possibly a trip to a local used bookstore in town to ask them to come and give me a quote. The problem is that the books are nowhere close to being segregated as to which to keep and which to sell.

And I don't have a place to put the ones I want to sell yet because I am cleaning that area for things to go towards the yard sale.

I think "change of residence" should be rated higher than 32.

Varia

I got my results back from the ultrasound on my lower leg where the bee stung me. Since it had swollen my doctor wanted to rule any blood clot. Since the swelling had gone done by the time the scan was done, I figured as much. At least I got a check on both legs (they did the left thigh for comparison)!

This morning I cleaned out my bathroom drawers and threw away all of the old powders, hotel shampoos, soaps, expired suntan lotions, and other things taking up space. Now it is ready to move.

Took the old littler box, with litter and furnace filters to the dump this morning.

Trying to read a library book "Educated", by Tara Westover; a memoir about her growing up in Idaho by a survivalist dad who believed in the End of Days and prepared for it. She goes on to Harvard, Cambridge, ends up with a Ph.D. after being only homeschooled until age 17. It's interesting, but not a fast read.

Five in a Row!

 Well, we won again. That makes it Five straight! There were only six teams,  but two of them were very strong competitors.  Bad Table Matters was finally at full strength and came in second with 24 points. The third-place team, The Gatekeepers, were two points back. Both of these teams have won in the past.

Since there was no sponsoring brewery, we had to rely on Taps to give us anything - cheapy give-aways like bottle openers and this wind chime.

I forgot to take a picture of our team.