Saturday, August 9

[gottawonder]

Today I am grateful for:

Decent weather.

Really moving a lot of stuff out of the house now. Down to the nitty gritty. The craft room and junk room are totally empty now, and they were our "storage" rooms, and packed to the rafters. The hardest rooms to empty. The spare room is empty too, and that one had a ton of clothes in it.

My sweetie's Mom did a great job of moving over all the spices from the kitchen, and she washed all the containers (they get oily from the stove), and took down the spice racks and put them through the dishwasher.

Then, we all worked to move the canned and boxed food out of the pantry in the trailer to the pantry in the farm house. The new pantry is nicely set up, and the shelves are shallower and taller, meaning it will be easier to see everything, and WAY easier to get to them. I won't lose things at the back of the shelves and forget about them so much now.

We even began some starter deconstruction in the trailer, pulling up the still nice carpet out of the spare bedroom to be given away to whoever wants it, and the linoleum out of the junk room (in good shape, not glued down) that we will likely re-use. My sweetie already took the door and frame out of the craft room too.

I'm so tired of going up and down stairs, but I'm not in pain and I think I'm developing some lower body strength now. It takes a lot of effort to repeatedly go up a set of stairs carrying 10-20 pounds each time.

A nice supper. I'm glad that my sweetie's parents are okay with eating mostly vegetarian meals while they are here. It's very respectful of them.

Finding lots of lovely peas (edible pods) in the garden, and some new beets for supper. We've been eating a lot of beet tops too, and really enjoying it all.