Well, there is no formal dining room in my house - just the end of the living room closest to the kitchen. But there's a table there and we eat at it once or twice a year. It's a rectangular, deep brown "gate-leg" table made of walnut. It can fold up very small or can be spread out large enough that I imagine it would seat 14 comfortably. I do not have 14 chairs, however, so it wouldn't be so comfortable after all.
The aforementioned table is a collector of things. Mail, tax information, magazines and books find their way there and they stay awhile. Occasionally, an important broken piece of something will make it's way to the table and take up residence in hopes that someone will figure out how to put it back together. Then, and only then, will it leave the table. One problem is that we have a table in the kitchen just a few short steps away which easily seats 4 - 6 if there are not too many side-dishes. This is ample for the two of us and an occasional dinner guest. If not for this second table, a butcher-block style, the first table would need to be kept clear for mealtimes.
But I digress. The point of this is that for some reason during the Spring and Summer of this year, the table collected an amazing amount of stuff. I had never seen it like this. It was actually piled up to about 1 foot high in places. As soon as I figure out how to post pictures, you will see. After months of fretting and planning a big cleanup, on November 2nd (election day), I decided that the debris needed to be cleared (not just relocated) in time for Thanksgiving.
Hence, the clearing of the empty nest began... a couple of weeks later.
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