AWESOME AUTUMN

THIS IS ONE OF THE MORE COLORFUL AUTUMNS WE HAVE HAD IN A VERY LONG TIME.  Brilliant oranges, deep greens, sage greens, vibrant reds, burgundies, golds and yellows.  It's beautiful to see the colors mixed together.  The leaves are still hanging nicely on the tree branches so there is a fullness still present.

As I drive from our main house to the COTTAGE and back in the daylight, I am getting a chance to see this beautiful scenery.  I so HOPE it stays for a while as I am not ready for WINTER.  

I worked in the basement this morning boxing dishes as Hubby laid wood floor in our blue room. The previous owners of our 1883 house took what decent wood floor there was in one of the bedrooms leaving underlayment behind.  Not a nice look.  Several years ago, we bought the wood and are just now getting it put into place. Looking good.  

They did the same thing in the Living room and Dining room.  After a few months in the house, we'd have professionals lay wood floors.  Thinking back when we bought the house, we should have offered them way less than what we did with underlayment for floors.  There was a hole in the basement stairwell wall.  Hubby has repaired this.  In the entryway, the initial P was laid in the tile.  We joked and said, we need to make the P disappear.  Our Insurance agent had seen the P on the floor and had asked us what would we do with the P on the floor.  Hopefully clean it up! The P has disappeared.

During the day, I managed to repack the ARABIA FINLAND RUSKA China dishes we have that were stored in cardboard boxes.  The life of the cardboard has gone ka-put.  We bought plastic boxes with lids to replace the cardboard.  I bubble wrapped the China and placed the pieces into storage boxes.

Carrying these storage boxes was difficult as I placed them on the steps that lead out of the basement to the backyard.  We have quite a few large storage boxes for the dish sets that I cannot lift.  Thought it is best to buy smaller boxes and reuse these extra large ones for Christmas Garland and lights.  They are see through which will make them very handy being able to see the contends inside.

In the afternoon, I boxed up canned food, dishes, pot and pans, spices from the Kitchen. Carrying these to the car took some effort as they were heavier than I want to admit.  I loaded 4 potted Coleus plants in the front seat of the car for their trip to their new HOME.  I cleaned some on the interior of our oven.  About 4 in the afternoon, I drove over to unload the goods.

The Coleus plants are on the front porch for now while the weather is still tolerable.  I'll WINTER them in the Utility room or in the storage side of the garage when the weather turns colder. Same with the Geraniums on the porch.  The potted Mums will need planted in the ground soon in hopes they will come forth in the Spring.  There's a cellar door that could have Mum beds on the side.  That would like nice.

I folded a load of t-shirts and put some blue jeans into the wash machine.  This was going as I unloaded the back of the car.  First I carry the boxes to the porch, take a break then carry them into the Living room.  They will sit here until I have more time to distribute them into the Kitchen after we get over to live here.

Driving HOME, I got to thinking about going to MENARDS to buy some smaller storage tubs for other dishes that are in large tubs.  When I got HOME, I told my Husband that I needed to go buy some tubs.  He needed some more supplies for the house so he came with me.  He is working so hard on the projects.

A quick trip to Manhattan and back again.  I took the storage tubs to the basement to repack the China.  Our Thanksgiving dishes were stored in very large tubs too heavy to lift easily.  I rewrapped these this evening in bubble wrapped and placed them in the smaller storage tubs. Needed to take break as I am out of gusto.

If I could work like I have been for a full year, I think some weight would physically come off of me as I have NEVER worked this hard before ever.  Not physically.  It has been a learning time for me.  Tomorrow, I will continue to rewrap Thanksgiving dishes into smaller tubs and take them to the storage unit.

The clothing rack that is in the Kitchen bump out must be hauled over to the COTTAGE tomorrow.  The rest of the Kitchen things plus the dishes in the basement.  The Basement is getting emptied.  That's exciting to me knowing how full it was a few months ago.

With so much chaos in the world, HOME LIFE is for me.  Praying for so many about much.

LIFE GOES ON and so must I.  We hope to have the house on the market next week.  
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