Friday, October 29, 2021

Friday, October 29, 2021

Tonight's picture was taken in October of 2005. Mattie was three years old and together we made his calico cat costume that year. Mattie wanted to look just like our cat, Patches. So we went to AC Moore, bought the felt, and got this black sweatsuit at Target. I cut the patches and Mattie and I hot glued them to the costume. To me, Mattie made the cutest cat. However, the day before Halloween, Mattie was hospitalized with sepsis. So he never got to wear the costume or go trick or treating. Nonetheless, I saved the costume and he officially wore it the following year in 2006. By that point the sweatsuit actually fit him. 

Quote of the day: Today's coronavirus update from Johns Hopkins.

• Number of people diagnosed with the virus: 45,895,114
• Number of people who died from the virus: 745,006

It was another winner of a day on the Farm. It is non-stop here, so much so that I rarely have time for lunch or to drink fluids during the day. It is just frenetic. I had the plumber over today, he was supposed to install a new vanity that I purchased for my mom's bathroom. Turns out that the vanity I bought couldn't be installed because of the positioning of the pipes! LIVID! So I had to figure out how to return it and then order a vanity that would actually work. Needless to say that means the plumber is coming back out next week. Thankfully I like the plumber. Nonetheless, I was up and down the stairs countless times with the plumber trying to figure out how to manage this new vanity order and installation. Of course when we move the old vanity, we have no idea what the floor under it will be like, nor whether the new vanity will install properly. I would love to just order a new sink top for the old vanity, but the old vanity is a very old piece and new sinks are not made with this dimension. Even so, do you know ordering only the sink top (and not the vanity) is even more expensive than ordering the whole vanity. Go figure. Of course the reason I am doing this is because the former owner left us with a cracked sink, so there is no fixing it, and turning the water on, leads to a flood. 

Meanwhile, this was delivered today! It was raining cats and dogs, so getting these boxes in was important. 

Given the volume coming in, I began sorting items today. Now I have sections of the room designated for nuts, coffee, chips, cereal, candy, cookies, etc! I am lucky to have this open space. It won't look like this for long when my parent's furniture gets here, but this space is so needed for Foundation purposes.