Thursday morning and it is my second time getting up to start the day... the first was at 4 am but decided that getting up this early just was not going to do it for me today since it was still raining out... at the moment it is down pouring and I am thinking lets make it for the third time.... the morning is not over it may still happen...
Our weeks started with taking down and packing away the Christmas lights around the yard finally... only wishing that some of the spring stuff would be able to be put up as well but that is not yet since there is still snow in the yard. I did get to take a walk about making a note of which plants need to be divided and planted some where else... moving Nanny's rose bush is one of the first things that have to be done because it is not doing all that great where it is... I can't wait to get into the flowers and get things going but I can't even get the wheelbarrow over to where everything is so I am going to have to wait for a little longer... the green house has to be re plastic this year, the person that came in to clean the yard before Carl came home had no pity on it... I guess that will be the first thing on the very long list to do... We still can't take a walk on the pathway to check out the hostas as well...the last few days with all the rain it looks like little lakes through out the woods... I hope it doesn't take as long as it did last year to dry up and have the hostas start growing... even though each day I am see more and more of the pathway and less of the snow... so soon it will be a reality...
With the coming of Spring, spring cleaning is on the list of things to do... and this week was one of the weeks that we started... making more room in the TV room for a scrap booking area for Rebecca and I... since every time we get together I am moving almost all my supplies into the dining... I was in a liquidation place today and seen a really nice table to put down there instead of taking the one from up here to use and it was not all that expensive... it is a little smaller then the dining room table with all the leaves in it but it is wider... think it will work nicely downstairs.... after two days of moving things around we have the space I am hoping that when I go back to get it this week it will still be there... I lost a closet when Matthew moved back so I had to make more space somewhere else for the clothes that normally when in there by moving some things around in the kitchen, dining room and cupboard in the sitting room.
There are two rules in the house when it comes to things... the first is if it has not been used within the last 6 months we really don't need it so why are we keeping it... and most times we don't when it comes to spring time which has been what we have been doing and boy have we have a load for the trailer when it stops raining... the next stop for us is our storage areas upstairs I see a second trailer heading out when we get into the spaces... so much has been put there and forgotten but last year when we went to put the air conditioners a way there was no space for them... there will be this year.....
The second rule is if you buy something new to replace something else... the something else has to be out not stored away just in case we can use it for something else... I think that is a father thing of mine because I was doing it for a long time....every spring and fall when I put clothes away for the season each is looked at and asked did I wear it this season... if not it is off to the Sally Ann Blue Boxes... they have got a lot of my clothes through out the years since this rule has been made... I am also a nut for dishes... I think at one time I was up to 9 sets of dishes in the house... but I have cut down a bit in those... but I am sure people would think 5 sets (that includes my Christmas dishes) is still too many... but they are not leaving the house and I have a learning for all of them ... like the ones that Aunt Vina gave me several years ago... like they will every leave.. and the set I bought with gift certificates from Carl and my mother for my birthday several years ago... and of course the 16 setting set I got for when the whole family is in... which has been a while... and they have irises on them... got to love them... of course my every day dishes which I went to the Dollar store to get because I couldn't find a set of square plates without cutting a leg and arm off to get a set of 4.... got a set of 20 for 20 bucks and didn't have to figure out where to put all the cups that normally you get with a set of dishes that you really don't like... of course with the dishes the flatware is there to equal the amount of dishes that are in the house...dishes and flatware two of my weaknesses ... the only thing I am missing and have not found yet and I will buy them if I ever come across them is the Christmas flatware...
I know there are walls to wash and windows to clean and I know one morning I am going to get up and start doing it but I am not in that much of a spring mood yet... but the little that we have done this week has set the mood so I am sure it will not be all that long before I am writing about the walls being washed just not yet....
Have a great one... Joanne
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