Gary has been working a lot of overtime this past week - Wed/Thurs/Fri he worked 10 hour days plus six hours on Saturday. Needless-to-say he's a little pooped in the evening.
My handy guy Jon was able to stop by the house Monday night after Gary and I got off work to go over things that need to be taken care of before the house goes on the market. I told Jon to make sure he doesn't let the cats out - both Butler and Cruz got out on Jon - and he had a hard time catching that old greyhound. Jon was able to do some work last Friday and he said he didn't even see either cat :)
Check another item off the wedding list - flowers. I took color samples to HyVee today after church so they can match the cake decorations to our wedding colors. The last biggie is getting wedding music downloaded to Gary's MP3 player or burned to a CD. Gary is checking music out right now as I blog.
Yesterday while Gary worked I spent some time going through most of my clothes and deciding what I would keep and what I would give to The Salvation Army. I think I donated 20 t-shirts along with a lot of other clothing items. I'm also working with a lady to make a t-shirt quilt out of several of my t-shirts I don't wear but they mean something to me - because I don't want to get rid of them.
I have quite the mug collection and have whittled it down quite a bit. Gary spent some of yesterday afternoon hanging three mug shelves and we put the mugs up today. I still have more mugs than shelves but Gary said there is some room in his second bedroom that is his den/office where another shelf or two could go.
So check out the pix below of more of my artwork that has found a home at Gary's plus the mugs. There is even artwork in the walk-in closet :)
These are two of my favorite P. Buckley Moss prints. The top one is Davis County Courthouse in Bloomfield, IA where my folks are from. I spent many a night when staying at Grandma Loper and Uncle's place looking at that courthouse. They lived in an apartment above a business on the north side of the square. The bottom print is North Side of the Square and the left, brown building in the print - those two large windows are where Grandma and Uncle lived. The left window was in their apartment and the right window was Uncle's sign shop.
I love horses and the big, draft horses are my favorite. This artist comes to a couple of the art shows at the Iowa State Fairgrounds each year. I bought "the girls" (the top print) a couple of years ago from her and the bottom print last year.
I would have loved to have bought the actual painting that was on the feather of the horse - but that was a little out of my price range - so I settled for a print of the feather with the horse on it :)
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Gary wasn't too sure about my little fox looking out of the tree trunk, but the little guy has grown on Gary - and found a home above the door of Gary's walk-in closet. The closet that I'm trying to figure out how much room I can overtake for all my clothes :)
And the mugs are center stage in the living room. The bottom shelf, far right are mugs from a trip to Arizona. Gary used to live in Tuscon (twice) and he knows all the places that the mugs represent - which is kinda cool :)
