Wednesday, just trying to keep my head above water

      The boys had so much fun yesterday on the river.  They were out for about 4 hours.  I was so grateful to Lil Sis for supervising so I could get a good amount off the sewing pile.  I have to get two wedding dresses done today as I am behind.  It is much cooler today so the boys can play outside. I just sent the eldest to check the chickens. The youngest is out playing in the wading pool.

     Schmills had to go home early which caused James to cry real tears, as he loves playing with his cousin so much.  Daughter was not feeling well.  She thought maybe the baby was coming early.  So Nate and Schmills took off last night.   I must say it is a little quieter as the Schmills and James are real noise makers.

     Hubs is out riding 4 wheelers with a buddy today and we have to go work at the food bank tonight as they have a load of potatoes coming in that need to be bagged.  We will take the boys over to Lil sis's for a couple of hours.

     This house needs love but I don't have time to do any cleaning with all the sewing I have to do, plus with the boys why try?  Other than keeping up on the dishes and laundry.  Our oldest grandson (Daniel) is 9 and quite the computer kid.  He hooked up my new modem last night and reconfigured our phones, and the tv to work with the new set up.  I swear these kids are born with zero's and ones on the brain.  They think in computer language.

Here is a picture of what will be moms room.  Hubs mom is 92 and she will eventually be with us.  Maybe both his parents, but so far mom has been able to care for dad who is failing.

I was surprised that dad recognized me when we were there as he has forgotten his daughters every once in a while.  But he seems really lucid while I was there.  He likes to tease and I tease back.

I think Hubs mom suffers mostly from loneliness, which bothers me a great deal, but she refuses to leave their home and wants to take care of her husband there, so we cannot really do anything.

I just got word from our eldest that the security/investigator in their office who just retired a year ago passed away from covid last night.  Everyone is in tears.  So if you don't think this crap is dangerous...

We have some in our family that think this covid crisis is a political conspiracy.  What nuts.  Makes me ashamed to be related.

 

 This area is still a mess, but it is up and running waiting for Sissie to come and fix and organize.  I wanted a computer desk center, but there was really no room in this house, so we took the linen closet that is in the spare bedroom and turned it into an office.  Li sis had this table in one of the offices at her work.  It was pulled out of an old barn and refinished, but the lady who had this passed away and her children did not want it.  It is perfect for this closet. 

   I had the phone company put in a private phone jack in the closet wall and Stillman will come later next week and put in a new plugin so we can close the doors all the way.  Then we can organize all those wires.  

I still have a mess of paperwork to get through, but it will have to wait until the shop is caught up and I am not so busy.

Here is our spare bath that is right next to moms room, complete wish an Elmo potty chair.  I used all the things out of mom's bath in the old house so did not have to buy anything.  Score!

There is plenty of storage under the sinks.  It is nice to have a place to put everything.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 I hate the light fixture in this front room, it looks like it belongs in a hallway.  It is quite bright and will be moved to my shop and the large dimmer fixture and fan in my shop will go in this room.  Stillman will come and switch it out for me.  

I can't have a fan blowing things around in the shop and the light is way too dull for sewing at night.

We are still missing the large bass violin, but I will try and replace it at Christmas.  It will be Hubs Christmas present. There are still oil paintings and pictures in storage.

 

 

 

 

 The garage is getting emptied one box at a time.  We still have another shelving unit to put up and so much arranging to do, but I am waiting for Sissie to come help.  Everyday I try and do a little bit more even if it is just hauling garbage out.

I do have another load waiting to go to good will.  We have not installed a cat door yet so I have been keeping the cat in the garage at night and I want the cat box out there.  We do have them trained to go outside, but if we are gone they need access to a box.  This is another job for Sissie.

Well I had better get busy those dresses won't fix themselves and there are so many of them.

Have a great and productive day staying positive while you are in the negative.

Kim