February 22nd

Weather: Sunny and cool
Comments: We went to an estate sale and a thrift store in Ft Collins today
Amount Spent: $9.50


Pieces on the left are part of an Ikea halogen light kit (see drawing below). We have some lights we bought years ago that will work with this kit. Originally priced @ $8.50, Joe talked the thrift store cashier down to $5 because the kit is missing some pieces.
3 hand-embroidered napkins from the estate sale--$1 each
Home-ec Text/Cookbook from 1960--$1
paperback book--50 cents


This drawing shows how the lighting system we bought works. Missing from the kit is one of the black endpieces, also the bulb/shade parts of the actual lights. We think we can get this working using some of the pieces we already have and some spare hardware.


Close-up of the napkins, they are really pretty!


We are changing furniture to accommodate our upcoming class, dining room chairs and the couch and loveseat will be replaced by some roll-about office chairs. The chairs were delivered today so we unpacked 2 of them to test them out, the other 4 will remain boxed until we get the furniture they are replacing moved out. Attie helped log the cuuh today from the top of the box stack, we lifted him and Bella up there so they could check things out from a new perspective. Bella didn't stay up there long, but Atticus spent quite awhile relaxing on the high vantage point.

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