Wednesday, August 13, 2025

August 13, 2006: First Visitors at Our New Home



We closed on our new home in Granbury, Texas, on Friday, July 28, 2006, and started moving the next day, but didn't spend our first night there until Monday, July 31.  Less than two weeks later, on Sunday, August 13, we had our first guests - my library school friend Kay and her husband Lark.

But just for the day - we had furniture in the master bedroom, dining area, and study - and that was it.  That's why these pictures were taken with us sitting on the fireplace hearth - because there wasn't much else to sit on, other than three barstools we got with the house (and some chairs described below).  

Kay and Lark had been in Denton the day before for Kay's graduation from library school (University of North Texas), and drove the 74 miles (1.5 hours) to see us that Sunday, before heading home.


Above:  Mark, me, Kay, Lark, 13 August 2006, Granbury, Texas.

Below:  Mark and me, 13 August 2006, in our home in Granbury, Texas.  Photo by Kay.



The photo above gives an indication of how little we had (or had unpacked) at that point.  Some photos Mark had at his apartment are on the fireplace mantel, and there are boxes to unpack in the entertainment center area (to the right), next to one of the stereo speakers.

The initial furniture was mostly mine - a double bed (later moved to the study, later sold), a rectangular table and chairs that I'd had since 1979 (two chairs broke, table is now in study along with one chair, other chair in guest room), a computer desk (now sitting in hall waiting to be sold or donated), and a bookshelf (still in use in guest room).  Mark's apartment was furnished, but we brought over items he'd purchased while living there - a computer desk, a printer stand, a couple folding bookcases, two wooden TV trays (we later got two more), as well as the TV and small chest of drawers it sits on (all still used, although that old-style TV in the master bedroom is only used to watch old videotapes and DVDs).

By this point he'd also bought a La-Z-Boy as well as a wooden end table (the latter  at a consignment store), both of which are still in the master bedroom.  Mark planned to go to California in late September to get the rest of his stuff there, which included some furniture.  After moving my stuff out of storage in Grapevine and out of the apartment on a 100-plus-degree day, Mark wanted to wait to move his California items into the garage when it was cooler.  We (mostly he; his taste was far better) bought other stuff in the meantime.


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