Our Cary Apartment

We resume our regularly scheduled blog posting. It's been nice taking a month or so off: not much has occurred that is blog-worthy, and there is the usual worry about what do you do with a travel blog when you're not traveling. We are here, in Cary, NC, for the fall, winter, and early spring months, doing the death cleaning thing* and seeing our grand-daughter and her parents. Every day we do some serious walking and have even made a few more distant excursions, by bus, to the state capital and the state fair, both within 10 miles. And we spend considerable time going through our 70+ years of accumulated stuff, listing it on eBay or Craigs', boxing it for trips to the charity shops, or saving it for later. I also spend some time most days going back to posts people have visited the day before, making corrections, enlarging photos, embellishing with new snarky comments. 

Back in August I promised pix of our apartment here. It is now presentable, at least with the understanding that it is part abode, part warehouse, part museum, and part studio. I suppose that could be said of any abode, particularly ours. But it is also all those things in the process of reducing 70+ years' accumulated stuff, particularly books, down to an order manageable for older persons--older persons who still want to spend most of their time traveling--and their descendants. 

Our building in the Cary Greens apartment complex, near Cary Parkway
and High House Road [Google Earth view in a previous post]

Our apartment is on the ground floor, back side of the building, facing

the little wood

There's its ample screened-in porch

Bedroom; a pleasant surprise was that our cherry Queen
Anne furniture squeezed in pretty well [we are open to offers
if you're into valuable OBF]

Thus we were able to re-use much of the decor we'd saved from
houses in Columbus, Dallas, and Missoula; serves also as media
room; note brand-new TV; also view out to warehouse/studio/porch

Bath; double sinks; one of the largest one-bedroom units we've
seen

And tub

Grand Hall; Everest view (from above Namche Bazar)
and prayer flags above the washer and dryer alcove

Kitchen

We 've lived in RVs much smaller than this...

Living area; the T-shirt quilt covers a principal warehousing wall

Study niche/music room

Some of the steadily dwindling library

Dining/study/office

Living room view; note Czech art nouveau stained glass in window;
the table is Vicki's sewing center/studio

Now on the screened-in porch; note remains of Montana
sign forest and new bistro chairs and table

Also the two Diamondback bicycles, his and hers, rescued and now
undergoing restoration

More porch, atelier and art museum

Oxides, c. 1991; more of my art works in later posts

Pretty much every visible metallic surface is covered
in magnets

Cleverly concealed refrigerator; burglars would never

find the vintage Costco poulet roti

Our gardening now is pretty much limited to cilantro
("Cory Ann"), sweet basil ("Basil"), and Thai holy
basil ("กะเพรา"); and some succulents Rachel gave us

*Swedish Death Cleaning; look it up; we are all dying...