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Excavating the Library
Apr. 28th, 2024 10:06 pmWhen I got back from lunch, I sat down and watched an old episode of "Flip or Flop" with Gretchen. She encouraged me to go down in the basement and do some work on "Crosstime Bus", which would have been a good idea, but was simply not the project that I was looking for today. Instead, I announced that I was going to go work on cleaning up the library.
The library has been in a state of high disaster since we did the kitchen renovation and had to move all of the contents of the kitchen cabinets somewhere. Most of the things have since been recovered and put away, but there are a number of boxes which have been stubbornly resistant to being cleared out, mostly things that were the contents of the kitchen junk drawer. Those suffer greatly from the "what the heck is this?" and "where am I going to put that?" problem.
Happily, Gretchen followed me into the living room where a clean coffee table soon became a coffee table filled with bits and pieces of this and that. A lot of things were dispatched to a box of Goodwill donations, because there were a lot of things that we had no further use for. A huge collection of screws, tools, and the like were dropped into a basket that has gone down to the basement to be squirreled away there -- somewhere!
Despite our best efforts, there's still a coffee table for of fiddly bits that needs to be dispatched, but we will figure that out before too long, I hope, now that they are out in the open and demanding our attention. The debris field in the library has been reduced to two paper boxes (one mostly empty) sitting on the coffee table, while the floor is essentially clear and has been swept out to remove the things that have been dropped there.
I broke down four boxes for recycling. Another empty box from the library has been reserved for things going to Goodwill, while the best box of the lot will be broken down and saved for future use, as it might come in handy some day. Being a small U-Haul box, that's more likely to be true than in most such cases.
I need to fix a fallen small shelf in the closet, but now I have *access* to the closet, so the chances of that happening are substantially improved. And I can get to all of the guitars in the closet, which has not been the case for a long time.
I am happy, because the library is very, very close to being a room again.
This project was followed by helping Gretchen clean up the kitchen and prepare a pot of chili for dinner, because cleaning up the kitchen was what *Gretchen* wanted to be doing this afternoon. And now that's done too. :)
The library has been in a state of high disaster since we did the kitchen renovation and had to move all of the contents of the kitchen cabinets somewhere. Most of the things have since been recovered and put away, but there are a number of boxes which have been stubbornly resistant to being cleared out, mostly things that were the contents of the kitchen junk drawer. Those suffer greatly from the "what the heck is this?" and "where am I going to put that?" problem.
Happily, Gretchen followed me into the living room where a clean coffee table soon became a coffee table filled with bits and pieces of this and that. A lot of things were dispatched to a box of Goodwill donations, because there were a lot of things that we had no further use for. A huge collection of screws, tools, and the like were dropped into a basket that has gone down to the basement to be squirreled away there -- somewhere!
Despite our best efforts, there's still a coffee table for of fiddly bits that needs to be dispatched, but we will figure that out before too long, I hope, now that they are out in the open and demanding our attention. The debris field in the library has been reduced to two paper boxes (one mostly empty) sitting on the coffee table, while the floor is essentially clear and has been swept out to remove the things that have been dropped there.
I broke down four boxes for recycling. Another empty box from the library has been reserved for things going to Goodwill, while the best box of the lot will be broken down and saved for future use, as it might come in handy some day. Being a small U-Haul box, that's more likely to be true than in most such cases.
I need to fix a fallen small shelf in the closet, but now I have *access* to the closet, so the chances of that happening are substantially improved. And I can get to all of the guitars in the closet, which has not been the case for a long time.
I am happy, because the library is very, very close to being a room again.
This project was followed by helping Gretchen clean up the kitchen and prepare a pot of chili for dinner, because cleaning up the kitchen was what *Gretchen* wanted to be doing this afternoon. And now that's done too. :)