I’m seeing hints of library through the boxes. Most of the books are out of boxes. I’m still looking for a few, so I have not tracked down all the boxes with books yet (although, they all should still be in the room). Remaining boxes should have papers and magazines that need to be either disposed of or filed.

Hubby’s six-foot wide shelf unit awaits shelf holders in the garage (and a paint job to change it from black to a more compatible brown). He’s looking for the shelf holders; he put them someplace obvious, but you know how that goes. Now he can’t find them. I’m completely sympathetic.

I’m trying to decide how to work closet storage. In Virginia, I piled boxes into the closet. Here, I’m trying to get stuff out of boxes, so I need something more appropriate to store things in. I’m considering finding four foot high shelves to populate the closet with to ease storage. Why am I trying to get stuff out of boxes? The packers just tape up the old box and ship it along, and I want new boxes on the next move. On the other hand, most of the new boxes used for this move arrived crushed, while boxes from two or three moves ago arrived solid and good as new. That tells me one of two things–either the boxes this mover used were of inferior quality, or they were poorly packed. I’m leaning toward the latter explanation.

Fortunately, I experienced no damage for anything that really mattered; however, my books were packed by someone who had no love of books. A couple arrived folded in half (paperbacks with no sentimental value, fortunately), and Mary Todd Lincoln‘s spine looks a little worse for the wear. Fortunately, it’s nothing like The Day Lincoln Was Shot. That poor book had a forklift blade shoved halfway down it’s spine when I moved to Iceland back in 1987.

I need to check a couple antique/second-hand stores to find a coat rack. This house does not have a coat closet, and I need something to hold a coat or two by the front door. New, inexpensive ones tend to be flimsy, but older, sturdier models can usually be found for a very reasonable price. I think I’ll need to leave the house this afternoon.