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The Spoils of War - Part 4
Mar. 13th, 2010 03:52 pmIt's been a long week.
Our 40 cu. ft dumpster is plumb full - and on Monday I'll have to call to have this one hauled off and another (same size) delivered. Living 46 years in the same place sure does allow the crud and garbage to mount up!! But most of the garden clean-up has gone into this dumpster, so the next one will be detritus from garage and house. A whole mini-van full was delivered to the rummage sale too - and hubby and #2 son have made 3 (count em - 3!) runs to the dump with small electrical gizmo-gadgets that the dumpster people don't want to have to handle. Hubby says that he'll have a load of haz-mats to go next weekend too - seems my dad saved old oil and paints. Such fun!
Súl (my daughter) has everything down from all the walls in the apartment, in preparation for painting the whole place. Her boss knows interior decorating and helped her settle on colors for each of the 4 rooms. I still need to go through the fancy hutch cabinet and sort the "keep it" cut glass and antique stuff from the "chuck it" glassware easily replaced from WalMart and/or more pack-rat items - but that's the end of going through parental crud in their old place. After that, it's sorting through the parental crud we've been living around in the main part of the house for all these years. At last, we'll be free of it (it says in the fine print)!!
I've even had #2 son clean out the greenhouse, so that if I really want to, I could go back to raising orchids (like I used to.) The gas heater in there doesn't work, but I'm not certain it needs to *that* much. For the most part, it just doesn't get that cold around here, and it's enclosed enough to hold in some residual heat from the sunlight. We'll see. I find it interesting that I'm finally starting to think of taking care of plants again. I used to love my orchids and houseplants - but simply didn't have time for them while raising 3 kids and then caring for 2 elderly parents. The old orchids - including a vanilla vine - are all dead. I'll have to start all over again, which is probably just as well.
Enough chitty-chat. Here's what you're probably here to read: the next part of Spoils. Enjoy.
( The Spoils of War - Part 4 - Nightmares )
Our 40 cu. ft dumpster is plumb full - and on Monday I'll have to call to have this one hauled off and another (same size) delivered. Living 46 years in the same place sure does allow the crud and garbage to mount up!! But most of the garden clean-up has gone into this dumpster, so the next one will be detritus from garage and house. A whole mini-van full was delivered to the rummage sale too - and hubby and #2 son have made 3 (count em - 3!) runs to the dump with small electrical gizmo-gadgets that the dumpster people don't want to have to handle. Hubby says that he'll have a load of haz-mats to go next weekend too - seems my dad saved old oil and paints. Such fun!
Súl (my daughter) has everything down from all the walls in the apartment, in preparation for painting the whole place. Her boss knows interior decorating and helped her settle on colors for each of the 4 rooms. I still need to go through the fancy hutch cabinet and sort the "keep it" cut glass and antique stuff from the "chuck it" glassware easily replaced from WalMart and/or more pack-rat items - but that's the end of going through parental crud in their old place. After that, it's sorting through the parental crud we've been living around in the main part of the house for all these years. At last, we'll be free of it (it says in the fine print)!!
I've even had #2 son clean out the greenhouse, so that if I really want to, I could go back to raising orchids (like I used to.) The gas heater in there doesn't work, but I'm not certain it needs to *that* much. For the most part, it just doesn't get that cold around here, and it's enclosed enough to hold in some residual heat from the sunlight. We'll see. I find it interesting that I'm finally starting to think of taking care of plants again. I used to love my orchids and houseplants - but simply didn't have time for them while raising 3 kids and then caring for 2 elderly parents. The old orchids - including a vanilla vine - are all dead. I'll have to start all over again, which is probably just as well.
Enough chitty-chat. Here's what you're probably here to read: the next part of Spoils. Enjoy.
( The Spoils of War - Part 4 - Nightmares )
