This past Sunday, I headed out to Farmville, Virginia to help my son, Watson, get his little cottage organized and spiffed up. He lives on an 800 acre farm in a little house. It is planted in soybeans now, but it used to have cows. The cowpies could be a problem since they could come right up to the windows!
(It’s at this point that I realize that I didn’t take a picture of the house–bad on my part!)
Now, he didn’t let me know that we were doing this until Friday night. AND, I didn’t know what he needed until Saturday afternoon. So after work, I took off to Target and Tuesday Morning looking for new bedroom and bathroom linens. Not knowing what I was in for, I overbought with several selections to choose from—good idea because half of the bathroom stuff is going back. (ALWAYS SAVE YOUR RECEIPTS!!!)
Then I went to Allison and Jon’s house. She reluctantly gave up their Grandmother’s pie safe—on a long term loan of course. They also found 2 wrought iron chairs they were no longer using to send along. Then I came home and shopped our house. Accessories, end tables—you’ll see them later.
This was me as I headed out.
Gotta love the van. It holds an AMAZING amount of stuff. The kids call it the “Afghani – van” since it looks like it may have been through a war zone. I’ve found that you really need to watch out for the brackets on the side of a dumpster because they will make BIG scratches on your car.
Stay tuned to see the BIG changes in the little cottage!