LIBRARY!

Pleased. It's clean, the main shelves are shelved. There's stuff yet to be sorted and shelved - particularly, on the case I'll get for the closet tomorrow - but it looks very, very good. I tucked that stuff into the closet (it will have to come out again when the shelves are going in, of course) and got these pictures, which show the main shelves and the shelves under the window, as well as the rather less-slick (but useful, darnit!) CD/tape stuff to the left of the window. Under the window are graphic novels, time life books, and nonfiction that either seemed vaguely coffee-table-ish or wouldn't fit on the other shelves. This is where the art/photography/etc. books are, too. There's a bit of art leaning against the wall there; we're going to put it up there, to balance the stuff to the left without blocking access to the books.

Main shelves are four across; the top shelf on the right-hand three is hardcover non-fiction. Top shelf left-hand, and second shelf on the rest, is hardcover fiction (the last shelf is almost bare, however, we have a number of hardcovers in our 'read and decide if we want it' list, so...). The lower shelves, paperback-sized, hold novels in cases 1-3; the fourth case is novels from multi-author series, anthologies, and paperback non-fiction.

There's more non-fiction in the closet and, over time, I would anticipate some of what's out would also migrate that way as the shelves fill.

( And, the actual mentioned pictures. )

Ahhhh, much better.

Got out and did more digging in the back yard. Finished the area I'd originally hoped to get done this weekend, then thought I could finish by yesterday. So, we're back to this weekend.

Tomorrow, dad comes out. He's going to take me to pick up the bookcase I want, then haul cardboard to the recycling center (in theory, I can call for pickup and leave it curbside; in practice, I haven't got anything to weight it down with and it would in any case become a sodden, useless mess - whoever thought that scheme up wasn't very thoughtful - and I can pay for the privilege, too). I'm beginning to think I need to get more comfy driving a truck - I keep borrowing his! Of course, it's an excuse to see my parents, which is always welcome, and I tend not to put as much effort into it as I could wish. I'm not sure if they appreciate this continual appropriation of vehicle and time, though....

Once we've done that, I'm going to have two main tasks, namely, planting the area I've dug up, and putting the bookcase together. I'm not sure what the timing will be - if it's before two or three, I will work on the bookcase. If it's after, I'll start on the yard. Better to do that in the evening, and the bookcase could care less where the sun is.

When we bought this house last year, I was planning to dive right in, and then my job hit me with month after month of hard work - way worse than what I've been bitching about lately. I was working 50-60 hour weeks routinely (instead of my current 45-50...), working weekend days, getting shipped out of town on very little notice....

I've felt bad for most of that time that I didn't get a jump on the projects like I meant to. And now? Now I have the library almost done, and the 'display' portion of it is done, and it looks like I wanted. I have the backyard probably 1/3 to 1/2 done and I'm finding it's easier as I go along to work on it.

I'm sorry if I babble about my projects too much, but this year is being everything I wanted last year to be. It rocks.