Preparations

Starting Sunday, we're going to be renting out our spare room to one of the American language assistants who will be working here in La Roda. We've been in contact via email and have agreed that she'll stay here at least while she looks for another place. If she ends up liking the house, etc. then she'll stay through May. :)

I'm hoping it works out for all of us and she'll stay for the school year because it will certainly be nice from a financial point of view to be getting a little help with rent. And if she ends up staying, it will be because she fits in nicely with us, so it will be fun to have an American around and someone to hang out with when Angelines is at work.

Anyway, this week has been spent preparing our spare room for our new guest. I've emptied out the closet, which required a lot of shuffling of clothes, and general junk; and consequently I've organized our junk room now to be the guest room so that we still have a place for visitors even though the "guest room" will be occupied. Those of you with Spain on your list of travel destinations needn't worry about being left without a place to stay! ;)

Also inspired by Sara's arrival, we restored two different pieces of furniture for the room that were in the garage: a little, marble topped night stand and a table. The night stand was pretty easy. We just cleaned the top, re-painted it and bought new knobs for the draws. The table was a bit more work... First we stripped it, then filled the cracks, sanded it, and finally stained it. It looks pretty damned good, in my humble opinion. :) What do you think?

It turns out all the cool furniture is going into the guest room!