Upstairs it’s a little harder to see the progress than in the basement but both places are looking much cleaner. The basement is almost transformed into a barren blue space (the floors are blue right now) with just a few desks remaining. Meanwhile Jag’s and Ty’s rooms are both starting to look like bedrooms instead of places where 10 years worth of stuff had been stashed, thrown, hid, or dumped. Both boys were pleased as they each found a few things they’ve been missing for years.
Today I’m going to try to get one desk out (which I’m giving to James) and then this all steel table which must weight 150 pounds. Then I’ll just have my grandpa’s desk and my desk which we’ll have the carpet installers work around. Now all that’s left downstairs is to paint the walls and then pick the carpet, find an installer, and figure out how to pay for it.
Harry, my lifelong friend, called last night and he’s coming out around April 3rd or 4th to do about a weeks worth of work fixing up some odds and ends. Then if we have the wine cellar cleaned and the rest of the rooms upstairs, we might be ready to put the house on the market. Lori joked if we fix everything, we might just want to stay! Could be but we need the equity to pay off our remaining bills and also need a new neighborhood as the kids have outgrown the street and we just need more room. Plus the interest rates will go up sometime within the next 12 months, hopefully after we can figure out how to get a new place. We need to stick to our mater plan!
So with a little luck, well really be going through some changes in the next 90 days. We could end up as close as a few blocks away or 5 miles but are staying in the area. More to come on this.
Jagger went to church group last night while Ty rode his bike over to Vinny’s mid afternoon. Today is the first official day of Spring Break. We have baseball practice tonight and it’s supposed to be close to 70 degrees again today before cooling down mid week. I have an event in Ft Collins this Thursday which is about an hour north but that’s about it for the week. We might go down to the Broadmoor Resort for a night so I can see some accounts in Colorado Springs.
Other than that, not much going on. Hope everyone is well, wish you could see the basement! I’m quite impressed with myself. I must have given James 10 larger boxes of food yesterday that he was going to donate to some homeless families. I’ll bet it was well over 1000 pounds. Most were canned goods but there was a case of pasta, all kinds of sauces, boxes of pancake mixes, vinegar, even chocolate bars and bleach. He was sure that he could put it to good use and that it would be much appreciated and well used. Most people think (as he usually is) that he’s always grumpy but I like him and get along with him just fine. Glad he could put it to good use. We still have just about as much as we gave away downstairs in boxes all sealed up and labeled. You sure can acquire a bunch of stuff in 14 years.
Take care, God Bless.