Books are shelved, coloring books are in a cupboard, and board games are beginning to find a good closet to live in. The main level hall closets are getting their shelves back, which were removed for painting. My Grandma actually built in most of these shelves herself. Most of them are really pretty straight. We suspect she eye-balled it, so a few are a bit tilted. But they are all spaced according to her needs at the time, which looks pretty odd right now, on account of me not having the same things in the same places. We've really enjoyed seeing all of Grandma's carpentry. She has never been one to be helpless. If she needed something done, she did it to the best of what she could do. Which generally worked out pretty well. So we'll let two or three crooked shelves slide.
The curtains in the living room, though, have had some mixed reactions. The curtain rod is maybe ten or twelve feet off the ground (not kidding), and Grandma appears to have not had the right equipment on hand to hang the curtains. So she fashioned her own curtain hooks and connection method and attached it all on her own in a way that was difficult for Dad and Mom to unassemble. (See picture below.) We put the rod back up today (curtains still need to be dry cleaned, as they clearly have never come down prior to this), and Mom asks how we'll rehang the curtains, to which Dad replies that we'll just do it the way Grandma did. I think he's joking, but he has a point: whether it was the "right" way or not, it worked, and it worked well for years. As long as the curtains never need to come down again. And, hey! We know they can support the weight of a whole lot of little people.
"Connection method" for curtain hooks means that they were sewn on. Also, they were the curtain hooks with sharp pointy pokers. Why do curtain hooks need to be sharp and pointy?
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