MIDDLE OF THE ROAD

WEDNESDAY HAS LONG BEEN KNOWN AS HUMP DAY, middle of the week and as I like to call it...middle of the road.  I spent my day working on downsizing Christmas tubs by taking the contents out of super large plastic storage tubs and placing them in smaller tubs for easier handling.

When it comes to stacking large tubs on the racks, I only need a few that will sit on the bottom shelves of the muscle racks we have.  When reaching up high for large tubs and pulling them off the racks or stretching to put them back, there seems to be a tendency to not be able to handle with ease the larger tubs which puts a strain on old people's muscles.  I need things to be easier on this old body.  My muscles aren't as strong as they once were.  A day or two after lifting and pulling off the racks, I feel aches in my body that don't go away very fast.  Being kind to myself doesn't include straining it.  Gentle comes to mind.  

After I downsized the tubs, I carried the smaller tubs to the other end of the COTTAGE for storing until the storage shed is completed.  This took me awhile as I am no longer Speedy Gonzalez. 

I rested off and on all afternoon until I had a stopping place concerning the Holiday decor then I went through a large cardboard box full of none other important papers.  More papers.  Surely I will be getting to the bottom of all of this soon.  I found an obituary in this box that I had been looking for as I put together a notebook of remembrance.

Many old papers and checks from 1992 were shredded.  1992.  There was quite a few notes that I will sleeve to keep and papers pertaining to my children's school years.  Sure brought back sweet memories.  Boggles my mind that this was 30 years ago.  How can that be???  I seem to be in a time warp of some kind when 30 years is just a blink away in my memories.  I was 37 years old.  I will group together the things that I will give the kids allowing them to do the honors of pitching or keeping.  

I laughed when I read through a calendar book about what we were doing in 2005 when preparing to put our house on the market to sell.  After spending a summer of doing lots of remodeling and painting we placed our house on the market in a September and closed on the selling the following month.  That was a quick sell.  So much of what I read is exactly what we are doing now as we fix up the COTTAGE to live in.  I believe if we continue to stick with this remodeling, that by Spring 2023 we will be living in the COTTAGE.  By the time we have owned the COTTAGE for ten years, we will be living in it as our primary residence.  I'm getting excited about seeing what it will be like to have downsized to the place where we are COTTAGE LIVING for real.  Everything in its place and a place for everything BECAUSE we have to be orderly due to the lack of space.

The majority of remodeling will hopefully be done and we can move into it with a few things to do after we move in.  It's all done in my thoughts and I continually think about what it will look like when we are finished.  I go to sleep at night thinking about what we will do and how it will look when completed.

Making headway with the paperwork.  Making progress with the rearranging of the basement. On the cooler days, Hubby works on the Cottage storage shed and in the heat of the day, he is working on the bathroom plumbing.  I go through boxes of old papers making sense of what to shred and what to keep to file.  I finished the Cottage pantry, filled it with food and am now priming a Kitchen cabinet that will hold small appliances when done.  Thinning out Holiday decor, packing and stacking.  Frequently giving thought to where our main house furniture will go in the COTTAGE.  Thinning down everything we own.  This Summer is a busy one when it comes to what we are doing.

Sometimes I wish I could move as fast as Speedy Gonzales.  

Praise the LORD, I may not be moving very fast, but I am in motion and that counts for something.
~d