On our agenda today was to tackle the garage and barn! Cleaning these two areas would be a job for sure! We have two long shelves in the garage that are three shelves high. They hold our coolers, tools, extra rolls of toilet paper and paper towels, a shoe rack, hunting equipment, yard sale items, gardening supplies, baby gear, etc.. The things we don't use or need anymore, we trashed. We filled garage bags full of old shoes, old printers, old paint and old hats. We organized the craft bin. The shoe rack was reorganized. The water cooler was emptied, cleaned and filled. The trash and all the empty water jugs were burned. Almost everything got a cleaning! We made numerous trips downstairs. The basement is being used for our storage unit until the new garage is built. It looks much better and many more things were put into storage.
Then we moved out to the barn. It was a cold day to work outside but we bundled up and the sunshine was beaming! We organized the barn by filling more garbage bags with broken shovels, old flower pots, pieces of games that had no home, old training wheels, etc.. The sports rack got organized and cleaned. Mike had a whole truck load of trash by the time we were finished! We swept out the garage and the barn and then blew it with the blower. They both look way better! We all worked hard and were dirty till all was said and done.
I know that the mower still needs to go get serviced. And the freezer and food inside of it still need to get moved to another location until the house project is completed. The water cooler will need to get some repairs done to it. Those bigger items will be Mike's chore but after cleaning out so much today, we will be ready to move those bigger things as soon as we need to! It's an amazing feeling to have all that done!
The shelves are getting cleaned out!!!
Thanks to the kids and to Mike for helping me! The job looked like a huge job this morning but it really did go well! We stopped around 2 and ate some warm soup and nachos. Hadassah baked a batch of chocolate chip cookies for our fellowship meal tomorrow at church. Mike has ever since been playing games with the children (Guess Who, Math 44, and Ping Pong). Matthew laid out Mike's survival kit in the basement and has been intrigued ever since he found it. Mike has a few items that if we would need to survive without electricity, we could for awhile. Matthew loves things like this. He asks lots of questions and going on a hiking trip would be so adventurous for him! Meanwhile, I watched the next, and last, Bible Study lesson for next week. We were all ready to relax!
Now, we have the whole weekend to relax, be with friends, drink some coffee and hear God's word being preached! I hope your weekend will be relaxing too and stay warm! It's still really cold outside but the forecast for next week is looking a bit warmer.?. We might even hit the 40's!?!
It's still winter but it's the last day of February! Spring is just around the corner, right???!!! :) Yeah!!!
