Tuesday and Wednesday are here and gone already. Time flies when you're busy. Tuesday John did paperwork almost all day. Then he did a garbage run for me before he started packing to go to his mom's. He wanted to see her since it has been awhile now since John's dad died. His mom, Denny, isn't used to being alone so he wanted to visit and see if there was anything there he could do. He left here around 2 p.m.
When he was packing his bag, I made out a deposit for him. We figured out the bills together and I will have to do some paperwork tomorrow. He will drop off the deposit on his way out of the area. Our bank is 15 miles away, another negative aspect of being so far out in the country.
When he left, I headed down to the basement again. I am almost finished with half of the basement. I got rid of another large bag of junk, burned several boxes and organized stuff for hours. At the end of the day I had enough area to store our snowmobiles in and to set up a seating area. We have a nice patio door to look out of and all there is is junk in front of it. Tomorrow I will organize that area by moving some stuff around and making a seating area. At least that's my goal. We'll see how it goes. I also want to make an appearance at the local sewing/quilting guild. I haven't been able to go since early June. If I want to promote our quilt retreat, I better get networking.
After I loaded up all the garbage in the ATV trailer, I drove it up to the dumpster. I actually filled up half of the dumpster with junk from our basement. We hate to have half a dumpster when it is time to be picked up. That would be a waste of money. So cleaning up the basement saves money too. I like thinking of it like that. The only things I threw out were broken or completely run down items that we could never sell, or odds and ends that we can't find a part for, etc. that aren't worth keeping. John was really nervous when he left that I would throw out something he didn't want me to. Oh well.
I was so tired yesterday that I went to bed at 9:30 p.m. I woke up early too. I don't like waking up too early. Maybe because I had to all those years.
Today I started working on my computer problems. I got an e-mail from a friend of John's who gave me some great advice. So I worked on the computer for a couple hours. After awhile I e-mailed some flyers for our quilt retreat on 9/25, then I got our computer to finally accept e-mails on 3 out of 4 accounts. I still can't figure out why the 4th account won't let me send e-mails, but I'll take what I can get.
I drove our minivan to the lumber pile in the back of the resort property. I had loaded all the lumber from our basement into it and then I unloaded it onto the pile. It looked like our neighbor kids had been going through some of the wood or something because the pile was a mess. So I had to organize the entire thing so it wouldn't fall over. It took me a lot longer than I expected. When the minivan was finally empty and the pile all covered back up, I loaded the van with stuff to clean a cabin with. I came upstairs, watched my daytime drama, Days of Our Lives, while I ate lunch, then went back to work. I cleaned the Birch cabin completely, thoroughly and totally. I moved furniture and everything. When that was done, I only had a half hour before I had to leave.
I had to work in the kitchen at our Lioness BINGO tonight. So I left at 5:15 and was the first to arrive at the Community Center for the kitchen help. I worked until 8:30. My feet were killing me by this time. Now after checking e-mails, answering phone messages, calling my husband and, of course, checking facebook, I am ready for bed. My pillow is calling.
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