dual personalities

Another super busy week began with a trip to a Columbus Day antiques auction. My son accompanied me, and we had a great time watching the proceedings. Some nice antiques went for practically nothing. If only I’d been in the market for a table… However, I did manage to rescue this little Hepplewhite-style chair as a temporary addition to my living room until I get around to reupholstering the one that normally sits there.

The angle is a little odd because I was trying to avoid my son as he lunched in the dining room, but then I took this picture, and I like the lighting, so here he is.

Are those elbows on the table???

Speaking of son #2, it’s now official that he and his other half, Nicole, will be moving to Idaho in about two weeks! Including a slight detour to Indiana to see his brother, the trip is a little over 2,500 miles.

That’s a lot of audio books and music!

Nicole has a job in Ketchum, the nearest town to Sun Valley ski area and the place where Ernest Hemingway committed suicide and is buried. Hemingway’s last abode is now a museum, and, if I have my facts straight, Nicole will split her time between the house, the town library, and the history museum.

They’ve taken a place in nearby Hailey, where people who can’t afford multi-million dollar resort homes live. It looks pretty nice to me.

We sure are going to miss them! Once they’ve moved I’ll have to watch movies alone, and get the DH to deal with giant spiders like this one on the ceiling outside our back door. That body is about the size of a large acorn or an almond still in the shell. No kidding.

I think it’s a spotted orb spider

Oh, well. Halloween is around the corner, so I suppose we should expect scary spiders and the like. Ugh.

One last thing…Gregory Alan Isakov’s new CD, Evening Machines, is out, and it is really good! You can listen to it on Spotify or Youtube.

Have a great weekend!

*Gregory Alan Isakov, That Empty Northern Hemisphere