My room of many coats

All it took was lots of oops paint, lots of time, two very sore and exhausted people and the painting is done. Now to get it organized. One step closer to being able to setup my loom.  Just need to find someone who can help me put it together based on a picture I have.

Honoring the Sabbath!

For way too many years, I have spent Sundays after church, trying to get caught up on all I did not complete during the week.  With my jobs and housesitting, I can get pretty behind.  Sometimes, I know I need to come home and do my bills, etc but after being on a computer all day, I don't want to be on it at home, too.

I need to start honoring the Sabbath!  Step one:  No shopping or working on the Sabbath.   It may not be much but it is a start.  All I know, is that I am not getting renewed and refreshed because I stay way tooo busy. 

Not working on Sunday means I must better budget my time at home to get done the things I normally do on Sunday, like laundry.

Starting this Sunday, I will see how step one goes. 

Storage room

I am almost finished painting the inside of the storage room.  I forgot to take before pics but oh, well.  How hard is it to imagine dark, unpainted walls.  The walls are complete and now for the ceiling.  I know the ceiling should be done first but Waylon is supposed to paint it and as of yet, he hasn't.  I could not wait as I wanted to get the painting done before the higher temps set in.  I started the ceiling last night, painting a very tight section about some shelving that came with the building.

Each panel of wood and each shelf is a different color.  Love it.  The guy who built the building did a poor job.  The studs are on 24" centers instead of 16", the plywood/panel sections sometimes overlap the studs therefore, the edges of the panels having nothing to which I can attach them.  He used bits and pieces of wood.  Found pieces of duct tape where wood had broken off.  Oh well, it is a storage room and at least it is colorful.

Once the ceiling is done, I need to find someone to help me put my weaving loom together.  I only have a pic, no instructions.  I am getting excited about the loom being put together this year.

Who knows!  Maybe one day I will actually make a rug.

Yeah for pickers!!

Over 1/2 of the garage sale stuff is gone.  The shelves are particle board or I would have hauled them close to the street.  Rain on them would be detrimental to their stability and they are too heavy to move back and forth.  With rain chances ending tomorrow, I will move them to the street for the pickers when I get home.

Grateful others can use what I no longer need.

Garage sale items

Oh silly me.  I misunderstood my friend Lynn.  She is not having a garage sale this weekend so, my carport had oodles of freebies sitting in it.  When rain chances are at 0%, I will haul the stuff to the street and let whoever wants it, grab it.  Come the weekend, if it ain't gone by pickers, then I will haul it off.

Praying for lots of pickers!

Where o where does all this stuff come from?????

I have 4 housesitting jobs in May.  I am tired just thinking about them all.  My boss gave me Good Friday off but with one condition.  I still had to check emails and voicemails, which I could do from home. 

Friday, Mom and I made our list, hit about 6 stores and wiped out a portion of our to do list.  When we got home, we each started on our respective to do list, repair this, plant that, etc.  My one major goal was to clean out the storage room, AGAIN!

Saturday morning, I needed a couple more things, so mom and I ran to the grocery store, hit a few garage sales plus the citywide garage sale.  Good thing, got mom a very nice rocking chair and got rid of the dilapidated freebie she had been sitting in.

We stopped and got a couple more forgotten things from the grocery store and ran into Lynn.  Lynn heads up a Relay for Life team from HEB.  I was able to get rid of a lot of things when they had their first garage sale.  I didn't contribute to the second but they are having another one this upcoming weekend, so that encouraged me to get home and do some more cleaning out. 

WHERE DOES ALL THIS STUFF COME FROM?????  I have a whole pickup load of stuff.  This time, mom cleaned out her storage (yard stuff) but seriously, most of it came from the big storage room.  GOOD GRIEF!  I really need to get myself together when I garage sale.  Of course, some of it was stuff mom brought with her that she is finally ready to let go of.

Anyway, the storage room has a lot less stuff in it which prompted to make the decision to paint the inside of the it.  Whoever built it never painted the inside.  It is rather a dark room.  Over the years of living here, I have collected quite a bit of OOPS paint so now, before I organize it, I am going to paint it.  Every section of wood will be painted a different OOPS color.  I will not be able to do most of the work on it until June due to housesitting but at least I got started.  My goal, is to paint one section at a time and then organize that section.  I took out old dilapidated freestanding cabinets and am putting in shelves to hold all my spray paint and power tools.

Thank you Lord for continuing to help me simplify my life.

Spent all day outside and now it is time to catch up on Davey's books and my personal stuff.  If Roo is better, Waylon said he would bring him over.  Not holding my breath but thanking God at least he said he would try.

I am so grateful for so much in my life.  Not quite there with mom but things are better.  Sometimes, I just need more breathing space (at my house). I miss time alone at my own home without mom.  For some reason, she does not understand my need to alone AT MY HOUSE!!!!!

I just heard the washing machine stop, which means I can start load number 2. 

Life, it is neverending (pun intended)!

Doing it again

Yep, that's right.  Over 20 garage sales in Fredericksburg so am up early and hitting the road.  Just hope mom's car is big enough to fit all the goodies (ha ha).