There was nasty weather in our forecast last week and M suggested that if we got the blizzard they were calling for we should tackle cleaning out our storage room. It had gotten to the point that there was just a path through to get to the water softener, and we really didn't even know what was in there. Big job, but it really needed to be done.
Sure enough, we had our first blizzard day of the winter on Friday. M made it safely to the cows and back, and we gathered up garbage bags and set to work. We eventually had a pickup load of garbage in the middle of our family room in the basement. We didn't quite finish before we were tired and hungry so gave up for that day.
Saturday was bright and sunny but really cold, like below zero cold. M did his cow chores and then loaded up the pile in the basement (after shoveling through the drift in front of the basement door) and hauled it to the dumpster in town. While he was gone I worked in the storage room a little bit, mostly sorting nails. We should never, ever have to buy another nail with all we have left from when we built the house. He had some plowing of snow to do so he could get to the shop so it was lunch time before he got home. Then he rested...and then the football games were on, so, nothing more was accomplished on our project.
On Sunday, I laid down the law that we were going to finish our project because I know how things go around here, and I wasn't going to have that mess for two years! After chores he went to the shop to get the trucks in so they'd be ready to haul on Monday. I thought maybe I had scared him off and he was never coming home! He did and we finished the job. Now he has a small workbench, all his tools are arranged and in sight so he remembers what he has, we again remember what we have down there, and we can walk all the way through the room. There are a few more things that can probably go, but I hate throwing out things that are perfectly good and could be useful to someone.....like TV's.
I'm kind of an anti-waste person, but who needs so much crap?!? Around here, it's hard to find a place to take stuff. I'm tired of having every drawer, cupboard and closet full to bursting so there may (should) be a lot more cleaning projects going on. I told K that my next step may be the closet in J's old room. She's pretty sure that he doesn't need any of it which translates to mean she doesn't want any more stuff moved to their house.
I have quite a list of projects I want to start on: organizing my recipes that are ripped out of magazines and newspapers and stuffed in a cupboard, rearranging the extra bedrooms now that I have a new bed and moved the old one downstairs, finding pictures to make a photo book of his childhood for J now that he's going to be a daddy, the never-ending attempt at making more sense of my office, plus working on year-end book work (mandatory) and starting baby projects (fabric is arriving daily!).
Today I went with K to her doctor appointment and heard my grandbaby's heartbeat. Such a cool sound, almost made me cry. The baby projects may move to the top of my to-do list.
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