You guys asked for photos of the new place, so here you go.

This—

— is one reason why we don't want to move in yet. I'd like to get these cupboards painted first. Not that I'm a fan of painting over wood— I prefer wood to paint— but I have to face it: I guess I don't much like mahogany. And this particular mahogany is long overdue for some kind of health treatment, as you can see. They're a lot darker than the photo shows, too.

The big hurdle, though, is the flooring. Scott wants to remove all the old carpeting and change the old lino, and we'd rather do this before we have furniture sitting on it that has to be moved out of the way.

I will keep you photographically apprised of our progress.

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"Both brothers went to France in 1914 with their own horses, but they didn't meet for 14 months until, on a lane near Ypres, their horses neighed to each other before they came into sight." - Elizabeth Jane Howard's memoir, Slipstream, writing about her father as a young man

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