Aged Mother will be moving in soon, probably the first week of November. We could take her this weekend if she didn’t mind sleeping on a mattress on the floor. Nizzibet spent much time yesterday moving books and furniture out of her office and then rearranging things downstairs to fit the new arrivals. Jaydogg pitched in on moving the bigger pieces of furniture. I spent some hours last night moving books and more furniture. More work will be done tonight.

This weekend we’ll work on getting bedroom type furniture – a box spring and bedframe, a lamp or two, a little heater maybe. We might get around to cleaning out the garage. That job is unrelated to Aged Mother’s arrival. It’s just that once you start moving furniture you might as well keep going until everything has a home again. There is much in the garage that needs to find a home somewhere other than the garage. Preferably on someone else’s property.

Some days I find myself searching the internet, almost randomly, clicking from site to site, following links further out and googling for new info on old subjects. Yesterday was like that. No matter what I found, that wasn’t what I was looking for. I know on those days that I’m searching for an epiphany – an answer to a mystery that I can’t define. A piece is missing. I don’t know what it looks like or what will happen if I find it but I feel compelled to look. It’s pretty much guaranteed that I won’t find it. Once I recognize that that’s what I’m doing I’m usually willing to do something else.

On the way home I stopped in at one of the local used book shops. I wanted to pick up a copy of Mallory’s Oracle for BigSister. Since she likes Andrew Vachss’s work I figure she’d like Carol O’Connell. No luck with Mallory. But sitting on the shelf were Night of Morningstar and Dragon’s Claw, two Modesty Blaise novels. Hello! Good condition paperbacks at a low price. Best part is, it was a complete surprise. I’ve so rarely seen Modesty Blaise books in stores that I’d forgotten to look for them.

To top the day off I called the Mother and invited her to come live with us. She didn’t say yes. She didn’t say no. She was happy I asked. If she does say yes there will be a lot of things to arrange to make this work. But one thing at a time.