Sorry, I got interrupted and now its a week later. Things are settling down around the house now. The office is all put together and I worked my way through the computer to-do list. Hurrah!
My husband and I have been working on cleaning up our basement. We attempted to clean it up several years ago. We actually took a week vacation, filled up a dumpster and hauled two trailer loads to Goodwill. We made a dent in the clutter but did not get it really cleaned up. One of the after products was a stack of boxes filled with papers and what-not that I intended to sort through in my leisure time. Well they were all still sitting there and had been added to. We started with those. Most of it went into the trash or into what we are calling the "burn pile". We intend to take it out to a friend's farm and have a big bonfire this fall. After going through those boxes we cleaned out the clutter in our office/file area and that's as far as we got.
We eventually want to fix up the area at the bottom of the stairs into a sitting/crafts/hobby/exercise area or, as my husband calls it, a man-cave. He already bought the TV for his man-cave and he's been looking at couches. We'll use tall shelving units to separate this area from the back part of the basement. Between those shelves and the shelves he built after we bought the house we should be able to organize and stash all of our stuff. I think the next step is to go into the back shelving and clean it out to make room for our newer stuff. We decided to set up the old computer in the basement so we can use it for printing and scanning photos.
This fall we want to get on our outdoor projects and possibly replace all the old windows on the house with new energy-efficient windows. We also need to replace our shutters as several have slats falling out of them. There's a lot of landscaping projects that could be done too.
However this coming week will be busy for us. We have to take my Mother-in-law's dog back to her, we are going to see Cobie Caillat in concert and we're going to the State Fair. We have company coming on Friday. We also have some doctor appointments and lunch dates.
