Saturday is typically the busiest day of the weeek, aside from Sundays which are absolutely crazy due to the numerous activities associated with church and Sunday School and Children's Worship and Skype-with-James-and-Tabea and Small Group Study, not to forget the all-important nap (without which all the other activities would be completely impossible!).
I never did get around to moving those engine parts out from under the deck. The mirror frame actually took up most of the afternoon.
But that's OK. There will be another Saturday soon. I hope.
And I'll be ready.
Saturday is dedicated to the more mundane aspects of life, like getting the yard work done (when the yard itself is not covered in snow) and the house work done (when we can figure out where on earth to begin the mountains of maintenance that need to be climbed) and the garage work done (which should slow down considerably now that we have gotten rid of a few cars).
Today's list of "things to do" included the following:
After that was done, it was up to the second floor landing where a huge pile of computer CD/DVDs were sitting around in boxes (and boxes and boxes) waiting to be sorted. I had to take them downstairs to the living room because there were so many of them. And it was like a trip back in time; most of the CDs were pre-2004 computer games that the kids haven't touched in a million years. Plus a bunch of backup CD/DVDs from back in the day when you could actually back up 740 megabytes (or 4.7 gigabytes for DVDs) and consider your data safe. Now it takes at least a terabyte drive.
That took a long, long time to go through. The hardest part was realizing that there is no reason to keep most of it because it is all outdated. But it took me a while to convince the pack-rat part of my personality of that fact. You know how low-level and instinctive such a feeling can be! But in the end, most of it went into the trash (or recycling) and suddenly there was a lot more room in the landing.
In fact, the only thing left on the landing was ... the mirror.
And thus it was that one of those nagging little jobs I've been wanting to take care of finally got the attention it so richly deserved: our old bathroom mirror, the one that hung in our Master Bathroom, stretching across her sink and mine, but was replaced a long time ago (last year??) by two singular mirrors (his and hers) such that its services were no longer required, has been sitting in the second floor landing for a very long time, and needed to be moved elsewhere ... but with the caveat that it must be moved very carefully so as not to break it, because no one wants a broken mirror.
- Cleaning the front porch
- Removing clutter from the second floor landing
- Moving old engine parts from under the deck, and
- Building a mirror frame
After that was done, it was up to the second floor landing where a huge pile of computer CD/DVDs were sitting around in boxes (and boxes and boxes) waiting to be sorted. I had to take them downstairs to the living room because there were so many of them. And it was like a trip back in time; most of the CDs were pre-2004 computer games that the kids haven't touched in a million years. Plus a bunch of backup CD/DVDs from back in the day when you could actually back up 740 megabytes (or 4.7 gigabytes for DVDs) and consider your data safe. Now it takes at least a terabyte drive.
That took a long, long time to go through. The hardest part was realizing that there is no reason to keep most of it because it is all outdated. But it took me a while to convince the pack-rat part of my personality of that fact. You know how low-level and instinctive such a feeling can be! But in the end, most of it went into the trash (or recycling) and suddenly there was a lot more room in the landing.
In fact, the only thing left on the landing was ... the mirror.
And thus it was that one of those nagging little jobs I've been wanting to take care of finally got the attention it so richly deserved: our old bathroom mirror, the one that hung in our Master Bathroom, stretching across her sink and mine, but was replaced a long time ago (last year??) by two singular mirrors (his and hers) such that its services were no longer required, has been sitting in the second floor landing for a very long time, and needed to be moved elsewhere ... but with the caveat that it must be moved very carefully so as not to break it, because no one wants a broken mirror.
We're hoping to find it a good home, after all. A good new home, that is.
So in order to move the mirror carefully to avoid breaking it, a framework must be built around it, either in thick cardboard or in wood -- and since I got rid of all my thick cardboard several months ago in a fit of pique (or recycling fervor), building a framework seemed the thing to do.
So...
| A Framework was built | And the mirror was 'framed' |
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I never did get around to moving those engine parts out from under the deck. The mirror frame actually took up most of the afternoon.
But that's OK. There will be another Saturday soon. I hope.
And I'll be ready.
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