Deciding where to go with it all. Seems like a simple task, but to the person that tends to overthink every detail... it takes a village.
I am that village with an attention deficit disorder.
We purchased our white dishes after our 2016 house fire and the both of us will admit now that we were under duress going overboard on dishes. I have enough to feed a small army. Feed that village.
Understanding what I went through after my Kitchen was totally destroyed has taken a couple of years to settle down and be sensible.
The extras are setting on the stove for the time being until I migrate the canned food that is on a bookshelf in the stairwell area. I'm moving the major cabinet contents over to a different cabinet so the canned goods can go where the baking/cooking supplies are. The baking/cooking supplies with mixing bowls and measuring cups will migrate over to where the coffee cups and drinking glasses were. These will go over where the regular dishes rest. blah blah blah.
After I get all the rearranging completed then I will have room for the overflow dishes and small appliances. Tadaaah it will help the KITCHEN flow better. Be better. Easier.
My Kitchen cabinets are made for tall people so the upper shelves in the cabinets are not usable with ease. I have to use a step stool to access the upper shelves. Great exercise this week. Stretching and reaching, going up and down steps, carry glasses to table,
switch e r o o .....this is a great way to exercise within my HOME. Last week of JULY and I'm doing it. Staying the course.
I gathered all my Finest Anchorglass BOOPIE GLASS that was in a cabinet placing them on the dining room table until the table was crowded. Placed the sherbet glasses on a kitchen countertop. Took inventory. Next I'll wash and dry at least 12 of them positioning them in the cabinet with daily dishes.
While downsizing my dishes and glasses in the kitchen I remember thinking the TEA size glasses are difficult to come by. Boy was I wrong. I had forgotten how many I have. Am debating if I should turn loose of some? 7" Ice Tea 48
5 1/2" Water 34
4 1/2" Juice 14
4" Cordial 24
3 1/2" Sherbet 40
Candlestick holders 2
Nah. Will hang onto these for a little while longer after washing, drying, bubble wrap and box up until I no longer need these.
THIS WEEK I'll be content if I get the KITCHEN CABINETS rearranged. It will be a great accomplishment as this has been bugging me until opening a window of time to get this done.
After completing this lil task...I must rearrange the OFFICE. She's still a mess.
HUBBY and I have been talking about turning this room into a media room where the recliners will sit to watch the tele. This project may be down the road for us. Eventually a new wood floor will be laid over new sub-flooring. The present floor has old sub-flooring that someone along the way stained and varnished. A better floor will cover this. Several other projects need to come first before the flooring project goes into action.
This week and into AUGUST will be the completion of new flowerbeds then nourishing the soil, designing the color patterns that Irises will make according to their kind when bloomed, finally planting the Iris rhizomes. PROJECT PHASE I completed.
The yard where our planted collection is now will be cleaned up with new grass planted. PHASE II completed for Irises where new bulbs and the ones we already have go together in the new flowerbed along the wood fence. Mission accomplished.
Dining room painted before the HOLIDAYS.
Allow the SUMMER HEAT to diminish for AUTUMN then the exterior of the screened-in porch will need repaired. This will take some doin'. By this time it will be the HOLIDAYS in which we focus. I figure the office floor will be laid in January/February.
Since these plans are not written in concrete I figure the plans can all change in a blink. Know what I mean?
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