the house that moved

when my father moved into the house, he knew it's be at least a year or more before the library would be ready to be filled with all his books, so he stacked all the boxes in neat piles along the wall of one room and basically left them all there until a couple of months ago, when that room was to become the stairway. the boxes were then taken to another room. and then, the house moved.

in fact, the boxes had been sitting atop one of the main beams of the house, so moving them to another room basically meant that beam became a hell of a lot lighter, so it moved up, taking with it a little of the wall, moving some of the tiles and a bit of the door that were just underneath. in fact, it appears the whole house moved. lesson to be learned: never stack all your books in one place if you're rebuilding your house!