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Two Terrific Days

I have had 2 really terrific days in a row. Life is so good, it’s incredible. Let’s go chronologically.

Yesterday morning I managed to get about half of ZN’s second wrap — a short one for a ring sling — woven. Here’s where I went from a black Egyptian cotton weft in my common hearts weave to a navy tencel weft in what I call my flowers weave.

hearts weave to flowers

The tencel is a much lighter ‘hand’ – finer, softer, more drape – but the majority of the difference in look is the weave pattern itself. The structures are much different.

Although changing the tie up for this weave pattern was no fun at all, the weaving went smoothly and proceeded well.

Shortly before noon I left for Rochester and the engineer’s inspection on my new home. Both my son and my daughter joined us, providing more eyes, more helpful hands, more listening ears, and more support. I really do have wonderful kids!

Son & I had taken some rough measurements, and while the inspector was doing his thing and we were following him around, my daughter was carefully drawing the layout, including placement of doors & windows. She obviously couldn’t do it to scale, but it was really helpful. This morning I spent time with graph paper and did my best to translate the combination of her drawing and my rough measurements into a scale drawing. We didn’t measure windows & doors, just room sizes, so some things are approximations, but here’s the layout of my sweet, new house.

new house layout

I know some bloggers have figured out how to post a relatively small image so that when you click on the picture it gets bigger. One of these days I’ll have to figure that out; you can’t get great info with it at its current size. But you’ve probably guessed that the 2 room I didn’t label are the kitchen & living room. Didn’t notice that till just now.

The inspector was quite happy with what he saw. (And with my kids.) The house has been well taken care of since its 1948 creation. It will need some attention, as does every house, but it’s solid and sound, and he didn’t find anything that I didn’t already know about.

Just one more little house detail. Most of the interior doors, including closet doors — I think 9 all told — have those great old glass door knobs. I think they’re beautiful, and have loved them since I was a kid. My sweet hubby made me a hall tree many years ago with these door knobs as the ‘holders’ for your jackets.

Back to yesterday…I had only been in the house for about 20 minutes the day I saw it and made my offer. I had some real stomach butterflies, I can assure you! Did I make the right decision? Was this the right house for me? Did I act too quickly? Would I really like it?

With the inspector I got to spend about an hour and a half in the house, and the answer to all of those questions is a resounding YES! I am SOOOOO happy with my decision! It’s definitely downsizing from my current space, but that was what I had in mind. And it’s so bright, and cute, and has the best weaving studio ever!

Needless to say, after the 2 hour drive home, I had a hard time sleeping last night. Too much happy excitement!

This morning the inspector from the County Health Department came to inspect my septic system – a requirement when selling a house. Remember I told you what a bear the digging was? Here’s a view of the yard so you can get some concept of what it took to get the tank ready for the inspector.

septic inspector

For the past 18 months I knew this inspection was coming. We installed our system in 1978, so I was prepared having some problems arise and having to spend some real money. Like potentially several thousand dollars if it was real bad news.

But it wasn’t! I have to do a few small things, and I have someone coming tomorrow morning to look at the situation and give me pricing, but I’m sure it will be more like several hundred than several thousand. And part of what I’ll pay him to do is to re-cover that tank so I won’t have to do any more digging! YAY!!

Then I had to take my car to my mechanic this afternoon so he could replace a gasket on the exhaust system of my 2007 Yaris. He got it up on the lift and said, “It won’t take long…if these old bolts don’t break.” With complete confidence I replied, “They won’t.” And they didn’t. I was done in about 1/2 hour with a total bill of $47.

Does a day get any better than these two? I don’t think so!

It did end well. I got several boxes packed, which means more bags of garbage created as I continue to weed out. I also finished weaving the flower wrap for Z. Here’s a shot of the ‘other side’ as it passes over the cloth beam — navy tencel weft.

flowers on cloth beam

Just for kicks, here’s the hearts weave with black cotton weft.

hearts weave on cloth beam

Tomorrow I’ll change the tie up back to hearts and start on NZ’s black tencel wrap.

5 comments to Two Terrific Days

  • Peg Cherre

    Thank you, everyone for your kind words and thoughts. Life is sweet, indeed!

  • How sweet is that space going to be when it is all set up and humming along !~! Congratulations, Peg.

  • NZ

    Oh Peg! I’m truly excited about everything that is happening in your life right now and made me beamed so wide seeing the weaving studio in the layout.

    I am.continuing to hope and pray that everything will fall in place for you and settling in will be nothing but a breeze fm for you.

    Lots of love!!!

  • Alma

    Good news, better news, and best news! That’s what you’ve been getting – congratulations for it. I’m going to have to take a ride over and look at your new piece of God’s acre! The floor plan is great – after seeing it and the realtor’s photos, I can get a real sense of the new place. What a good decision this was for you and all the Cherre’s. How great that the kids could be with you for the inspection.

    Great news about the septic system – and the car, too. The heavens are shining on you, Miss Peg!

    I have always loved the heart motif in the weaving, but now that I see the flowers again, I’m thinking they look pretty terrific, too. Keep up the good work!

  • judy T

    Oh such wonderful news Peg! Congratulations!!!! I love the sketch of your new little home and can easily see why you love it so… it looks like it’ll be perfect for you!!! The weaving studio is so awesome… like it was made just for you. Wishing you much joy and happiness in your new home and hoping your always have such good days as your last two! I’m so happy and excited for you.

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