End of the week wrap up

[multipurposegoddess]

I had a lovely day yesterday. Not much of it would fit into the traditional idea of Thanksgiving. DH and I, oh, and Walter, headed over to my parents' place around noon. They met us outside and swept us off in their Prius up to Mt. Diablo, where we picnicked at a picturesque but cold and windy spot. We all agreed that the view was worth it. Mom had braved Whole Foods on Tuesday to pick up an assortment of things to eat, including roasted vegetables, some sort of squash salad with cranberries, green beans, brussel sprouts with pecans, a tofu and rice thing for them and some deli sliced turkey for the carnivores. Mom wasn't sure that would be enough, so she made some rice and cranberry pilaf that was delicious. Once we'd all eaten enough and decided we'd had enough wind, we packed up the dishes and leftovers and headed up to the summit. We headed directly to the observation deck on the roof of the visitor's center and looked at various landmarks through Dad's spotting scope. It was pretty clear - we could see Suisun and the Golden Gate Bridge and the Sutter Buttes, and could even pick out the Transamerica Building with the scope. We followed that up with a leisure stroll around the Fire Trail (it's got another name now, but I don't recall who it's been dedicated to) and made it back to the car before sunset (when the park closes). Back at my folks' house, we had time to sit in front of the fire and have tea and "pumpkin pie bars", which were good though not really pie like, and start playing a "Thanksgiving Trivia" game that my mom had cut out of the paper. We had to take off before finishing the game so DH could get to a meeting while I lolled about at home, enjoying not painting or cleaning or anything. When he got home we were both hungry again (weird how that happens) so he heated up some Matzo Ball soup, gobbled it up, and went to bed.

Nice day.

Today we cleared out the new house in preparation for moving in, put all the switch plates and so forth back where they belong, vacuumed, mopped, set up the Mac Mini and the phone and accepted delivery on our new TV, though we didn't set it up yet.

Still to do

Updated on Saturday 11/24 at 8:15 AM

• Buy TV
• One more coat in blue room
• Blue trim
• Paint the end of the hall
• Paint the bathroom 2nd coat
• might need touching up
• Murphy's Oil Soap wood paneling and wood floors
• Vacuum carpets
• Clean linen closets
• Anchor loose cabinet in kitchen (fix drawer?)
  
• Measure furniture and decided what goes where
• Definitely more space at new house - yay!
• Wash all outstanding dishes
• Ditto clothes (minus handwash)
• Pack loose stuff and things that I want to be able to find
• Toiletries
• Remote controls
• Bring empty boxes to Benicia
• One more carload
• Bring current load out of car
• Clean out cat carrier
• Catch cats
• Empty litterbox, pack it up with liners
• Empty garbage cans and wastebaskets
• Clean rugs
• Send out new contact information!
• Install porch light
• Empty attic

So close!