I Painted the Deck!

Since I have all this free time with the kids in school.
I thought I better use these last few sunny days to paint the deck

The house was clean ...

I had finished unpacking the last of the boxes
 from Papa's house.

And the first ones...

I had finished painting Jacob's room.  

Oh wait - I did paint his room
the first week of school.

The driveway looked good. 

Real good.
I can even park the van and the car side by side, again.

And the garage is organized,
thanks to Amy and Priscila helping me throw a bunch of OLD stuff away.
Everything over 20 years old had to go! 

But it got filled back up, somehow....

Who really needs to get in the garage in the winter, anyway?

So, I focused all my energy on the deck this week...

and power washed and painted! 

We even moved all the deck furniture into the shed.

Just in time, too.  Looks like the rains are about to start again.  

Guess I'll have to find something else to do with all my free time!

Look out Fall, here I come!

Turn 'em Around

There I was, stalking someone on fb and they responded to a wonderful idea... one I might not have thought of on my own, but one I now consider my own.  An easy way to sort through your hanging clothes.

1. Go to your closet.

2. Turn on the light. 

3. Turn all the hangers (with clothes on them) the wrong way (opposite way, backward, etc.).

4. As you wear and wash the clothes, hang them back up the regular way (the way you always have). 

5. In six months, any clothes still hanging on a backwards hanger means you haven't worn them... and you probably are not going to.  

6. Remove the clothes from your home, quickly.

7. Repeat.

Feel free to do this to your spouses and children's closets. They will think you are weird for turning them all around, but most will not take the time to turn them back to normal... and in 6 months you'll know what they've been wearing and what they haven't.  

And what shall we do with all the extra coat hangers we will be getting rid of?  

Recycle them into chandeliers?