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Preparing for the day.
My sister has taken this week off work to do things around the house. Yesterday we put together a box to store they pillows of the outdoor furniture in. It took us all afternoon to put it together.
Today and tomorrow are reserved for the stairs. It still has the dark grey carpet on it from the previous home owners. And it doesn't fit with how we decorated the rest of the house. So we'll be removing it and replacing it with a sand coloured carpet or runner. Luckily the previous owners didn't glue the carpet down (like my sister thought) but used double sided tape. It's removed easily except for glue residue from the tape in the area where you step on the tread. It's a nasty glue, we tried several things and all of them do soften the glue but it's so sticky that when you try to wipe or scrape it off (even with a sharp scraper) you just smear the glue over the tread. So we got two more things we're going to try out today.
Other plans for this week are going to Ikea (on the bank holiday Thursday, help me!), to a plant nursery and my father's going to come to help with going to the recycle station (his car is bigger) and to help with a couple of other things.
I'm looking forward to Saturday, when my sister is meeting up with a friend and I can relax. Maybe go to the market and get some snacks and treat myself to some new pens.
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