New bedroom tonight and friends

At last I can sleep in my newly insulated, sheetrocked, painted and papered bedroom. All the furniture was moved in this morning from a cold and miserable looking undone room. So I keep clock watching to see if it's time for bed yet. Having spent many winters sleeping in the main room on a futon bed it will be such a treat to sleep in a real bed, and know that if my husband does want to stay on the internet half the night, I will not be disturbed. Bliss!

One of my best friends came by today. I have been in England (my home country) working for the last 2 years so have only seen my friend once when I was visiting last year. She is currently living and running a small retail shop in a coastal town, roughly two and a half hours drive from here. So it was a surprise to find her at the door this afternoon, hubby in tow, and with a new dog. She already has an older dog and here she has a young and oh so friendly spaniel. She was very impressed with all the work that has been done in the house and with how warm it is in here. We remembered shivering near the wood stove on previous occasions, trying to play our instruments with cold fingers. She is a violinist, as is my other best friend who lives locally.

There was a time before I went back to England when we had a string quartet. Both my best friends on violins, an ex-music teacher and multi-instrument player on the viola and myself on cello. We would meet every Monday evening to play for up to 3 hours. We laughed and cried, stamped our feet, talked, and played, played, played. It was our weekly therapy night and I miss that a lot. One of the casualties of us moving apart physically. So any opportunity any of us have to play together, we take it. I'll write more about music making in another posting.

So, back to new bedrooms. I have new flannel sheets and pillow cases, plus a new duvet cover all soft and warm waiting for me upstairs. Goodnight all!