Work, work, work

Jimmy & I have been working almost non stop all day today. We did take half an hour out for lunch, then it was back to work scrubbing & mopping and moving things around. We completely emptied two closets, a job that we started back in the Spring. Most of the stuff in the closets went to yardsales, Goodwill, to other locations in the house, and yes to the trash. We scrubbed down the guest bathroom and started on the master bath as well. Early in the Springtime we cleaned out drawers and soon we need to clean out cabinets.

Like most families we have years and years of accumulated stuff. Half of which we don't use and another fourth of which we don't need. Even though I'm tired it feels good to see empty drawers, empty closets and some empty cabinets.

no beds

The carpet cleaners are coming tomorrow to clean all of our bedroom carpets so today we spent the day removing the biggest obstacles from the rooms...the beds. There isn't a bed in the house and we did some calling and gave two of our beds away, so they are totally gone. Jimmy & I are going to fight over who sleeps on the couch tonight and tomorrow night, and the loser will have to sleep either on the love seat, the recliner or on the floor on some outdoor furniture cushions. If all goes as scheduled we should have something to sleep on by Thursday night.
Ooooh, this is going to be fun and almost like camping out except that we're not going to be in the same sleeping bag :(


Steal Away by Brian Dupree.......if I could find this song I'd play it for you but I can't find it so you'll have to listen to THIS ONE because I like this one too.

HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY

I never thought I'd have so much fun cleaning and clearing out the house from all the excesses that have accumulated throughout the years. In my computer room it's mostly papers & folders, and for the life of me I don't know why I thought I had to copy & print out everything that I read on my computer. I can understand printing out special instructions, but I think I had every joke I was ever sent printed out. What a stack of papers, good riddance. I look around now and say, WOW!

I'm excited about de-cluttering because we're having company soon and because the house is just so much easier to clean when you don't have to dust & move things around so much. There's a corner in my bedroom that I use to pile everything that I don't know where else to put it. In the kitchen I have cabinets filled with baking dishes that I never use, plastic lids that have no mates, and lots of old pots & pans that just need to be tossed out. It's terrible how we accumulate so much stuff and then hold on to it long after its use is complete. I should have started this spring cleaning back in the winter months when the weather was so bad that we couldn't go out, but then it wouldn't have been spring cleaning now would it?

I hope everyone is having as much fun as I am.

Just ordinary everyday stuff

Today was spent doing yard work. We mowed the grass, pulled some weeds and Jimmy trimmed some lower branches from the Sycamore Tree and he also weed-eated the whole yard. I did a little house cleaning as well and that's unusual for me on such a beautiful sunny day. We usually save those house cleaning chores, like vacuuming or mopping the floors, for the rainy days when we have to be inside anyway.

My cat Princess Pinky moved her kittens again yesterday, this time to the living room so we could all enjoy them. They'll be 4 weeks old in a few days and will soon begin to start eating some dry kitten food. They're just beginning to play and can barely keep their balance and are still very wobbly on their feet. We've never had 5 (very cute & cuddly) baby kittens in the house before. We once let one mean mother cat keep two kittens in here and it was a disaster. She beat up Jybow & Princess P every time they looked at her or her kittens or she caught them asleep, so we vowed never to do that again...but here we are with five kittens. The difference here is that Princess Pinky is being very nice to Jybow and Jybow is allowed to look at her babies anytime she wants. The problem is that Jybow was trained so well to stay away from kittens that she won't go near them and only sneaks peeks at them from a distance....a very far distance.

Hopalong aka Catzilla needs a dental appointment with the vet. Today as I was sitting with her at the picnic table I noticed that her bottom right tooth was sticking straight out of her mouth. Jimmy tried to wiggle it, but the cat quickly pulled away so the tooth is still attached. I'm hoping that she'll just finish the job herself and lose it during the night. I'm going to give it a couple of days before I make an appointment with the vet. No sense paying a big vet bill when the tooth might just fall out on its own.

So how was your day? Anything unusual or exciting happen? I know it has to be more exciting than my day. The only exciting thing that happened to me today was that my cell phone rang while I was near the riding mower and when I moved away to answer it, I stepped in a big gooey glop of mud and missed the call. It was funny and gave me something to laugh at, but not nearly as much as the phone call did.