Day 137

Day 137

Monday, August 11, 2014

This was one of those good and bad days.  A lot of productive things got done; but not very many items actually came off my list.  TGF came and got most of the items for her classroom (all but one small file cabinet), and she also got all the rest of the books that they picked out to keep.  Getting those out was on my list; but none of them were things that were actually in the way, and the shelves had all been cleared except her books.  Still, it’s done.

The lady who bought my desk came by.  That wasn’t on my list, though I guess it should have been.  I had long since crossed off cleaning out the desk .. just didn’t really think about the time involved to dismantle and move it!  Nevertheless, it was done.  I moved all but the corner pice (but then TGF and I moved them to the porch because she got here before the lady getting the desk).  When the lady got here, 3 of the pieces were out on the porch already (I had moved them back against the railing in case it got rainy again before she came).  I couldn’t move the big corner piece, but she and her husband got that.  The good news is, of course, she paid me.  Also, she gave me her old desk .. so I didn’t even have to set up a card table; plus, it’s small enough, I *might* be able to fit it into the apartment.

During the afternoon I finished sorting pictures.  I probably still have kept back more than I have room for … but that was so hard to do. 

Other than that I tweaked a bit here and there, but didn’t actually accomplish very much. I did manage to put up the 2 loads of laundry I got done.

Around 4:30ish DB & DIL & DP (puppy!) got here.  It took awhile to get their camper trailer set up .. wow is that thing huge! J  Looks rather awesome in my driveway.  Then he went to connect the electric, and ran into problems.  It seems my wonkly old house didn’t want to support the trailer’s needs.  The problem was, eventually, (thankfully!!) solved.  Meantime, they took me to eat (local chicken & bbq place, very good). 

DS & family got here around 10:30ish I thnk.  I was closer to asleep than not, so not even sure of the time.  The kids were a bit on the noisy side getting in the house;  but once they came in, everyone settled very quickly.  In fact, I did more “visiting” this morning as they were gearing up to go to DIL’s appointment. 

The grands are staying here for the day so I will find things for them to do.  But for now, it’s only just daylight, much too early.  I’m always up too early, but don’t want to be and don’t expect anyone else to be.  I will likely just watch morning news awhile and then get in the shower.   I don’t have clear cut goals for the day; but I’m thinking in terms of perhaps letting the kids pack the good china, and maybe ferry things down the stairs if I work on clearing upstairs.  First I’ll need to carve out a spot for thing to land!  I think, too, I’ll get DB & DIL to walk the house with me and spot any areas I’ve forgotten to clear.  I sure hope there aren’t too many; but until I get the boxes a little better organized (in theory, now that some furniture is out of the way I should be able to do that) I won’t be able to tell.