Moving Progress

This will be our new home. It checked off many of the boxes on our wish list, but it IS in a tight residential neighborhood which is not my idea of lovely. You can see how close together the houses are. I hope we have nice neighbors... Meanwhile, back on the home front in Illinois we are busy arranging things. Tomorrow is our garage sale and I hope to sell a lot of furniture that will NOT fit into above house. This is not a bad thing, we felt we needed to fill this big house, and then took pieces from both of our parents' homes when they down-sized, and then passed away. We have much more than we will need. So the sorting and schlepping out to the garage began a couple of weeks ago. Thank goodness my housekeeping decluttering started well over a year ago and I have been opening drawers and cabinets thinking...I've already been through all this, so it just needs a double check! So my days are filled with more than the usual clutter and my...