One Thing Leads to Another

On October 2nd AT&T [our Internet provider] came to our house to switch us over to the new fiber optics technology.  My hubby was anticipating the switch to be a lot more involved than it was.  We have cable hook-ups throughout our house and he thought the technician would need to have access to them, so that meant moving a lot furniture.  Turns out the technician only had to go in my office and the basement - the rest of the work was done outside.  He said our old cable hook-ups are obsolete.

Moving furniture always exposes dust and cobwebs, and spurred me into doing some serious house cleaning.  I took down the custom sheer draperies in my bedroom and washed them and scheduled the carpet cleaner to come out and begin cleaning our carpeting.

He came yesterday morning, but what a job prepping for his arrival by emptying out most of the the contents in two rooms.

Everything got crammed into the spare bedroom.  Yikes!  Home projects are always worse before they're better!  

What a good feeling to have the carpeting in two rooms and hallway cleaned.  Late last night we set the bed back up in our bedroom and today we moved everything else back into the rooms.  Next will be cleaning the family room carpeting and couch.

I was so focused on the house project that I almost forgot yesterday was Columbus Day or Indigenous Peoples Day until the absence of mail delivery jogged my memory.

If I knew about President Biden's official proclamation in 2021 recognizing Native American contributions [hence Indigenous Peoples Day], I forgot about it.  I was surprised to learn that 29 states and Washington, D.C. no longer celebrate Columbus Day and 216 cities have renamed it with Indigenous People's Day. 

More surprising was learning the statue of Christopher Columbus in Columbus Park in the North End of Boston which overlooked the waterfront, was decapitated beyond repair as an act of vandalism in 2020.  I took the photo below when my hubby and I visited Boston in 2016.  I wonder if the park was renamed?

I read that at least 40 other monuments to Columbus in the U.S. have been removed in recent years.  What???  When I was in grade school [many moons ago] celebrating Columbus Day by honoring the explorer and his expedition to the Americas in 1492 was a big deal. Is he banished from today's history books???

I'm going to be 'politically incorrect' and hang on to my Fitz and Floyd Christopher Columbus teapot [Figures from History 1992] even though his legacy is controversial.  He made four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean from Spain, and his journeys were the beginning of exploration and colonization of North and South America.