We did the (first?) housewarming on March 20, and it went better than I could have imagined. The house was "clean enough to be healthy and dirty enough to be happy" as the saying goes. We did put in some extra effort, but some areas simply aren't done and we weren't going to worry about them. I think we ended up with at least 50 people all told and I think at one point we must have had at least 30 at one time. It was crazy and exhausting, but I loved it.
Elizabeth stepped up to the plate, figuratively and literally, and took care of the food table, refilling drink coolers, veggie trays, at one point running out to Plaid Pantry for more mayo and mustard. She was a trooper and she even cleaned up afterwards while I relaxed and visited with relatives. She took the kitchen from after-party disaster to model home in 45 minutes.
In other news, L got the new rain chain and barrel. He set up a place for barrel, with pavers and retaining wall, and one length of chain (which will eventually need to be 2 stories long). Then, within hours of him doing this work, we entered a period of about 48 hours of nonstop rain. Talk about timing. The rain "cups" on chain are a little different and I'm glad because they add a little character to the back porch.
One thing that was mentioned, uh, a couple times, was that there were no house numbers displayed. At some point, we took down the old ones and never put the new ones up. The substitute mailman was not pleased, nor were a couple souls trying to locate house for party. We downloaded some Celtic-y fonts on Sunday and within a couple days L had a wonderful, painted customer house number sign posted on the house. Don't you love it? I told him that not EVERYTHING needed a Celtic or Irish flavor and he said he wanted the sign to hint at the style within the house. Once again, I think he hit a home run.
No comments:
Post a Comment