Oh my! I’m not kidding. For a few weeks Bri and I have been hearing the slightest creak, like the house settling. We couldn’t figure out what it was. Today I found out! I came in the family room to grab my purse as I was on the way to the post office and to check out a new natural food market and did I get a surprise!

One of the shelves is removed and needs its support rod. Notice the shelf under the space is also slightly slanted to the right.

One of our 8 foot tall bookcases had shelves that were all on a slant slightly to the right! They are so full, I guess the shelves would have stayed slanted-maybe. So before I could step out the door, I unloaded the top two dusty ones. Seems the top shelf was missing one of its four little metal rods that holds it in place. All the weight from the books was causing the holes of the rods to break away, the noises we were hearing. I have to see if I have another rod thing, maybe I can use a leftover one from the kitchen. I had to start to move up the shelves and hammered the little rods in the holes to be on the safe side. I swear when you replace books on shelves, they never look as good. I have some rearranging to do and some books will be finding new homes or be given away.

The health food market was too expensive. I got some tea and a few snack things for Sean.

I have some nature/flower photos featuring red that I will share as soon as I clean up the book mess.