Sometimes I think WordPress has a surveillance camera on my life! How else would they know that my world is entirely chaos at the moment while I, in my natural state, am an extremely organized person? It so happens that I’ve just moved home and home business 35 miles away into a new rental. A normal move is somewhat chaotic. Add to that the fact that our home business is an online used book (and music and whatnot) store called Scholar and Poet Books. (Find us on Facebook or Ebay!) In our inventory and in our rental home, we have AT LEAST 25,000 books. Being quite the ambitious, self-sufficient types, we thought we could move those ourselves over a two-month period. We’re also over 50, both of us. And most of those books were in the attic, 3 flights of stairs up from the curb. Long story short, we had to hire professionals to help us pack up and move the last 285 boxes of books, each weighing roughly 50 lbs. Now all of that is in our new home, and we’re unpacking and organizing. Another yuuuuge task. *sigh* But our new place is gorgeous, a ranch-style house with only one flight of stairs (down to the basement), on land owned by the Conservation Foundation for which I work. I am not complaining! I’m just sharing what a bit of chaos is like — interesting, challenging, exhausting, stimulating. Here’s a gallery of our old place:
Chaos
Chaos
scillagrace 
Oh Man!
Impressive, right? 😉
Holy cow! I thought we had a lot. We both got rid of about half of our collections, and they are still very crowded. We are down to about 3,000. 25,000? Wow. Yes, impressive indeed. 🙂
Oh my…
Kind of boggles the mind….
oh my dear… so many books! so many stories!! so much to take care of and put in order! sending you good vibes to get it all sorted! Cheers to the new adventures coming, in spite of today’s chaos!
Thanks, Juls! I have learned how to befriend chaos, but good vibes always help!
This is truly chaos!
Yeah, I might have won this challenge. Thanks for your visit!
Chaos? Heaven! Once you get them sorted, anyway… Good luck! 🙂 🙂
Already Steve’s finding it easier to locate books in his new, well-lit array on pallets in the nice, dry basement. All good!
It’s like “they” were watching 🙂
Weird, right?
Now that’s a challenge..!!! How brilliant to have all those books though, it’s amazing to think every single one was an idea struggled over and printed..
It is a rich environment of diversity – all those ideas and perspectives – endless fascination and learning!