Rose browsed online for the sewing table that she wanted and purchased it along with a dressmaker's form. She knew that her town had a Joann’s Fabric Store that she could visit for material and other items. The first thing I can make is new curtains for my new sewing room, she thought. She closed her laptop and was anxious to get started in her grandma’s old room.
She trotted up the stairs and decided to change out of her dress and put on some shorts. In her bedroom, she had a small radio that she turned on and turned up. Rose felt like dancing and getting organized. She danced all the way into her new sewing room. The first thing she did was take down those dark curtains. I guess grandma couldn’t sleep well if there was any kind of light in her room, she thought.
It was already brighter in there now that those curtains were down. Rose stripped the bed of its linens and tossed them into the sitting area. She hoisted the queen-size mattress up and dragged it off the box spring. Carefully she dragged it and set it up against the one wall. She did the same thing with the box spring. The bed frame and headboard were made of steel and she saw that she needed pliers and a screwdriver.
Rose had a few tools down in the kitchen so she went downstairs to get them. When she got to the top of the stairs she heard her and uncle Ralph’s song, “Walking On Sunshine”. She started to dance again and sing with the radio.
“That’s right, I still need to get a hold of cousin Joyce and see if she knows where uncle Ralph is,” Rose started to loosen the nut and bolt on the headboard.
One by one she got the bolts off the headboard and frame and leaned it up against a wall. The frame bars she laid on the floor by the headboard. Look at all this space now, she thought. She liked the large floor rug that was under the bed so she left it there. Her grandma had some framed photos of family and people she knew on the large dresser there so gathered them up and put them in a box. Rose grabbed a rag and wiped the dust off the top of the dresser. She looked in the drawers and saw some clothes and other things of her grandma’s.
“I guess I can pack this stuff up too so I can use this dresser,” She said.
Seeing some of the clothes brought back some memories of her grandma. Some of the picnics that they had together, and the all-day field trips.
“I do miss you, grandma,” Rose wiped a couple of tears from her eyes.
She got another empty box from the sitting area and packed the clothes in it. Some of the silky scarves she was going to hang onto. When she got the dresser cleaned out she carried the big box into the sitting area. I wonder if that Salvation Army picks up stuff, she thought. Rose figured that it’s all good stuff still so someone might as well use it.
Grandma had an old Kirby vacuum cleaner in the closet so she took that out and plugged it in. She vacuumed the antique rug and the wood floor around it. I bet this hasn’t been done in a while, she thought. She figured as long as she was at it that she would vacuum the sitting area and her room too. It took her a while to do and by the time she was done, she was tired.
“Okay, that’s enough for today,” Rose wrapped up the long cord and put the vacuum back in the closet.
She stood in the center of her new sewing room and looked around. Her grandma did have nice artwork of flowers and country life hanging on the walls. So it was going to be another peaceful place to be in the house.
Please join me again for more of: Rose’s Ghost.