We swung by the thrift store by our house as a first attempt before dreading the long drive to Oak Harbor. I had looked before without much luck - most of their good shelving at the thrift store is NFS as they use it for display, but maybe I wasn't looking very hard last time as I was also surprised by their anti-puppy policy. This time, we came prepared with a bone to leave with Tilly in the freshly cleaned truck, and two of us to hunt down the good stuff. Upstairs, I found my dream shelf - 6 feet tall with puppy-resistant doors on the bottom shelf! A nice woman brought it down to the front for us as we kept looking and came across a desk! Tim has been needing a desk to settle into his own space and get his things organized. I have my leather writing desk with built-in typewriter I've made us haul from house to house, but Tim has had to make due with what's around. We found this desk for Tim with cupboards and shelves above and a nice big desk area. It was covered in fine china and porcelain dolls waiting to be sold, so with some guilt, we let the lady at the front know we wanted it but weren't sure how we were going to get it into the house with three hands. Just then, another woman walked by and heard. "Where exactly do you live? Honeymoon Bay Road? Before or after all the curves?" She was on her way to run some other deliveries, and for a small donation to the Senior Services program, she'd be happy to bring our furniture right into the house in about twenty minutes. Woo hoo! We rushed home to clean and shuffle cars, then they arrived with our beautiful new furniture. Between these new furniture pieces and the beautiful new fridge that came yesterday inspiring us to stalk it and the cupboards full of good foods, this house is getting mighty homey. It's crazy to think that we've only been living here a little more than a week, not counting the time we spent in Seattle shortly after the floors were done. Unbelievable the transformation that's happened since this was a moldy old basement.
Tilly playing in her box on the search for food and cardboard to tear up. Thanks, Mom, for her new hobby!
Tim happily utilizing his awesome new desk.
Our flashlight family waiting by the door to go on outings every few hours with Tilly and I.
Tilly really excited about her new bone and slowly gaining freedom in our ever cleaner and better organized (thus more puppy-safe) house.
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