After much thought and discussion and soul-searching, Andy and I have decided to say goodbye to our piano. We’re planning to salvage some of the wood parts and incorporate them into another piece of furniture, and the metal will go to the scrap yard for cash. Although now that I think about it, I’m wondering if it will all fit in the car, but I’ll burn that bridge when I come to it (Yes, that was an intentionally mixed metaphor. You mean you just say it the boring standard way about crossing the bridge? As the pin my little brother used to wear in high school said, Why be normal?).
The piano tuner lady can’t come for a little over a month, so that will give us time to say our farewells and get used to the idea. I’d be surprised if either of us bother to plink out one last tune. I’m really looking forward to having all that space free. It will most likely be taken up rather quickly with shelving for yarn and bookbinding supplies or my Brown loom or maybe a little spinning station, or maybe a table for Andy to put the paper cutter on. Something we’ll use, anyhow.
In other news, I think I am going to designate Mondays as my weekly Domestic Goddess Day. I started the day baking (pie and cookies), and now I’m doing laundry, and when I finish writing here, I’d like to get some sweeping and bathroom cleaning done. Imagine if I cleaned and did chores every Monday how nice our house would look? I also really like the way house chores aren’t usually mentally taxing, which is a nice gentle way to start off the week. I just have to remember to put my apron on first thing, because that’s the signal to my brain that I am in chore mode. I’ll let you know how my experiment goes.
With that, I am back to my chores. Before I go, does anyone get the reference in the title? I hope someone does. I am tempted to say I will send a prize to the first person to guess, but I’m not sure what that prize should be? Small shipment o’ cookies, perhaps? Anyone know from whence the line is taken?
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Darn it, I don’t know the reference. And when I googled it, your blog post came up third.
And I love what you said about burning bridges. I use that phrase pretty exclusively. It means to me, I will eliminate that particular issue/problem when I get to it. So there is no crossing back over; it is burnt and gone.
Elise, did I get that phrase from you? Or is it just a great minds think alike situation? Will we ever know the truth.
The title of this post is from a line in the musical Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat. When in doubt, guess a musical