Wired!

It has been a busy week.

On Monday Tom and I got all of the speaker wires placed.  This involved me in the house tapping on the floor and poking wires in holes, while Tom was under the house with the dust and spider webs.

On Tuesday our new cabinets were delivered.

There was some tension.  Will they fit?  Will the components fit?  Don't scratch the new floor!

With a bit of adjusting, the cabinets do fit.  The floors were spared.  The old receiver would have fit in the component slot, but we had to buy a new one for extra speakers and it doesn't fit.  We problem solved and decided just to leave one of the cupboard doors off and put it there.

Then we had to decide where everything goes and Tom drilled holes for cables and cords.

 Then we had to hook everything up.

 As you can see, we labeled all of the wires before we placed them in the cabinet and moved it back in place against the wall.

Tom gave me an assignment, hooking up the surround sound speaker wires.

 As night fell, Josy wondered what the heck we were doing now.  There's always something weird going on around here lately.

 By the time the shows I wanted to watch were on, we had achieved TV and sound.

 On Wednesday I had a lot of shopping to do and errands to run.  Tom drilled a few more holes and made some adjustments.  In the afternoon we began placing the shelves and filling them up.

 Tom's pop-up books are back on the shelves where Irene, who loves them, can get to them.  Much of my pottery collection is back on display.  One shelf was the wrong size, so we have a call in to get that fixed.

 Speakers have been added to the mix, but most of them are small.

The sub woofer is clunky.  Obviously we will be going to the lighting store to find a new solution for light in the corner.

 Today Tom spent a lot of time trying to hook up the turn table - yes, we still have some old record albums we like to play, especially at Christmas.  Alas, we are not getting sound from the turn table or the speakers in the other rooms, so more problem solving and some tech support are yet to come.

Finally Tom hung the old family heirloom picture back over the fireplace.

 There are still a few things to do, but it's beginning to look like home, like we hoped it would.  We are very happy with our renovations.  As for the cabinets, as you can see, it is all about the TV!

 Meanwhile, upstairs, Tad has set up the new computer and installed some of the programs.  Now Carbonite is restoring our files.  I tried to use it to upload these photos and messed it up, so Tom had to get Carbonite going again.  I'm loving my lap top right now.  It was kept us connected.

We certainly live in a wired world.  It's good to be connected.