Moving in and out

 The past week has been a flurry of activity, the culmination of several dominoes falling into place.  It all started with my sister's husband, Chad.  He got a job in Riverside, which meant that my sister would be moving from Long Beach to Riverside, which is still only about an hour away from me (yay!).  But they have at least a month before they will be able to find a place to live.  That meant that she needed a place to store her belongings until then.  So she asked to put everything in our garage.  That meant that I needed to clean out the garage.  It wasn't too bad, but there were about 100 sq ft of hardwood flooring planks that we had been given.  That also meant that I needed to clean out the spare room a little quicker since my sister might be living in it for a while.  It is really bad, but I got to work.  I had some whimpy shelves in there that needed to come out, but I wasn't sure what to do with them.  I didn't want to throw them out, but they were ugly and flimsy.  That meant that I needed a brilliant idea.........I've got it!!  I used the floorboards to turn the flimsy shelves into a bookcase and an armoire for the newly emptied bedroom.  Everyone thought I was crazy, but I started measuring, cutting and glueing and was making some fairly good progress when my parents came to visit.  Since the project had taken over the garage, and the arrival of a whole apartment's belongings was imminent, we got to work.  We converted the shelves, and made a coffee table chest with the remnants, my dad did a lot.  They aren't quite finished yet, but they are very close.  I am very happy with them.  So far, I have only spent about $15 on glue and hinges, but I still need to stain and varnish them.  That is something that I can easily do in the remainder of my garage, since all of my sister's possessions arrived last night.