Happy Thanksgiving!

We slept in til the crack of 9:00 am this morning, grateful to have each other, grateful for this beautiful space, and grateful for friends and family.

Our first order of business: go visit Patrick and Julia. When my dad died a couple of years ago, he left behind a vast house filled with books, furniture, rugs, prints, historical tchotches...some of which went to live at P&J's. As Kevin and I embarked on this project, Patrick made a generous offer to re-gift us with a couple of chairs from my dad's house.

Voila. Thanks, guys!

Kevin put the newly-urethaned shelves back in place...

...and we loaded up a table with books from elsewhere in the house. We're not sure it's a good idea to put them on the shelves yet - something about whether or not the screws holding the standards to the studs are really and truly The Final Screws. There are some screws here and there that definitely need to be replaced with smaller ones, because they interfere with the brackets. But aside from that, I seem to remember Jonathan saying something about "these are only temporary". Rather than load up the shelves with hundreds of pounds of books...we'll just wait til we can check in with Jonathan. Plus, we're waiting for another couple of dozen (!!) brackets.

Time for some pumpkin pie. (Actually, 'garnet yam' pie.) Happy Thanksgiving, everyone...