What's on your agenda...

Here's my agenda....
After the meeting tomorrow we will be starting upstairs.

1. go through my closet
2. go through Duck's closet
3. go through our dresser (since we share a large on this will take a bit of time)
4. move the folding table out, put the shelving unit in it's place and move the big desk dresser back into our room opposite of the shevling unit.
5. clean up the rest of the room.
6. clean up the hallway, go through the picture frame tote and sort, go through Smiley's future clothes tote, put the the LHM clothes with the rest.
7. finish going through the boys closet, put in the boys bed. Clean the rest of the room
8. go through books on the bookshelf again, purge, purge, purge!
9. remove the border in the livingroom.
10. Go through stuff in side table drawer
11. clean out the couch that eats everything.
12. Deck scrub the livingroom floor
13. Fix the entertainment center
14. scrub crayon off the front door
15. sweep front porch and pull weeds in flower bed
16. clean front porch walls and door including frame
17. clean out filing cabinet
18. put up backing on the kitchen pantry
19. clean off kitchen table, put side table drawer in the kitchen next to boys desks
20. clean out cabinets above fridge
21. clean out cabinets next to fridge
22. clean out cabinets above stove
23. clean out cabinets next to stove
24. clean out cabinets in corner cabinet
25. clean west wall counter tops.
26. clean east wall counter tops
27. clean microwave counter
28. clean out cabinets above sink
29. clean out cabinets above dish washer
30. clean off shelves on south wall.
31. organzie pantry shelving
32. clean out cabinet next to sink
33. clean out all drawers
34. clean off tops of cabinets
35. deck scrub diningroom and kitchen floors
36. move fridge
37. move deep freezer
38. finish laundry
39. move dressers into laundryroom (see the whole idea of this is simple. The clothes get washed, get dryed, get folded and get put away immeadiately. Therefore they don't sit around)
40. clean out the cabinets and clean off shelves.
41. clean out dresser already in there.
42. clean out the cabinet above toilet and sink.
43. clean the walls and ceiling
44. scrub tub, sink and toilet.
45. clean off back porch
46. clean basement walls and shelves.
47. knock down all cobwebs and spray for spiders
48. put up insulation boards and pipes.
49. insulate window sweep and scrub floor

when the money is deposited into our account we will buy

1. stringers for the stairs and put it up,
2. 2 sheets of drywall and possibly insulation
3. paint for the livingroom

the rest will go to bills.

That will cover the inside of the house. I want to scrub the north wall for the algea and clean out the small and large garage. I also want us to get the compost taken care of as well as around the fence.

Well I must go to bed for a few hours, I have to be at work at 9 pmish and work until like 2 or 3.

Tata/

a little work and a long way to go.

we are trying to see how much wood we have. We have cut most of it into pcs that are useable....but we still need to get a log splitter. I'm hoping to have about chords of wood set up. I would love to get my hands on some oak and well I can't remember the other one, but they last longer. they are the harder woods.

I'll have to post more later....I'm going to go to bed. I have to go in early to do some SOC info and then work 2 shifts.....then off for 3 whole day!!!!! JOY JOY JOY!!!

How many clothes do we actually need???

So I posed this questions to my wonderful husband....He's what he has asked for:

3 pr of work pants
4 pr of casual pants
3 meeting pants/jackets
5 work t shirts
5 work long sleeve shirts
3 work sweaters
5 casual shirts
5 casusl long sleeve shirts
5 casual sweaters
2 pr of pj's
10 pr socks
10 pr undies...

So now I need to work on this list for myself an both of the boys.

We have decided to fix the basement stairs, this will mean that once this is done, the deep freezer, washer and dryer will all go downstairs. This will leave plenty of room in the pantry for the dressers to be brought downstairs and put in there. We will also put up hanging lines in the pantry, this will be basically a family walk in closet. All the clothes will be in the same place, and no need to run up stairs to change or whatnot. It will also help the clothes get put away instead of dropped, rummaged through and tossed around by 2 children and then have to be rewashed...AGAIN! We will also be sealing the basement as well as possible and getting the furnace down there. We will be moving all the wood over to the house in October, his will help us put it down the hatch faster and easier.

Well I've got 3 trash bags full of clothes and toys ready for the yard sale. We are doing 2 stack, one for the yard sale and the other for LH. We'll see if we sell anything, if now...it'll all go to friends and FC or LH.

The more you make, the more they take....

wow, so I got my raise and it didn't affect my check, after Uncle Sam got his fingers in it, it was gone. So much for more money coming in. I think that I may change my dependents and remove the extra coming out. Hopefully that will make a difference. Looks like this check is going to go to bills and car gas. Energy usage was 2391 today, we have to change something. I'm thinking we need to shut off and remove the second fridge, we also need to make sure we are shutting off the water heater and I'm thinking we need to purchase one of those solar adjusters for the front porch light with the ability to still shut it off inside. Multiple AC units are going to have to stop also and we didn't really do any laundry yesterday so that isn't a factor. hum...where is the energy sucker at...I'm gonna hurt him!!!!

We are getting a good deal of firewood coming in, unfortunately we don't have a working chainsaw nor a log splitter. We bought one the other day and it turns out that it doesn't cut, hum....a chainsaw that doesn't cut, that's an oxymoron. So Duck is taking it back and we are going to try to get a different one. I'm really not happy with the current outcome and I think that it is very important for the store to give us a full refund, especially since it is less than a week out of the box.

I will be planting a fall crop of broccoli, cauliflower, tomatoes, cabbage and beans. Yesterday we pulled a bunch of the broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage bases. I want to start building the coldframe and tomatoe cages. I'm wondering if we have enough fencing extra from tearing down the large unused portion of the dog pen. This would be incredibly important in the bean box. I'm going to start rough drafting 14 8x8 boxes and see if I need them all. Assuming that things are still going on track, we will be able to get more production out of our garden next year. That's the goal isn't it, to get better each year.

Okay, I need to go, we start school this year today, we will not have to take off for all the vacations or pegan holidays that the school celebrate therefore we can get out time in at a pace that works for Sunshine and get him moving forward. I've looked at Calvert Homeschool, but I also found a cir. from a school on the east coast, now I just have to find the link in the hundreds of my fav links.

Daily reading

daily reading: 13286

Goal is to have energy usage down to 1600 this week...we have been very bad, but we've been running off the solar and wind mill the past two days for cooling so hopefully that helps.

Okay....so

I have the highest respects for those who lived in "old days" who shelled enough beans to last their families until the next harvest. I think I would need 2 more SETS of hands and a lot more land. We just spent an hour shelling kidney and black beans only to get less than one quart canning jar full. Humm....So i'm going to plant a lot more, let's see what I can get out of it. I always (usually) have a 2 gallon bucket full of mixed beans ready for bean soup, while I don't cook the whole amount it makes a nice mixed bean soup and I throw a handful in when I make beef veggie soup.

I also took JM and AM some yummies, a didn't know what SC would want, but she told me! So tomorrow I have to remember to take some to her. I'm gonna get up in a few, I'm resting my back and work on laundry, the kitchen and picking up the shredded paper mess the boys made. Trust me they are going to help or it will be a long night sitting in the diningroom. I'm going to have them take it out to the compost pile since we have put a bunch of frut rines out there recently and want to even it out with carbons or is it nitrogens..hum gonna have to look that one up. I also got a bag idea that I want to try, I will have to make it to Walmart southside for some inserts.

Okay, I need to scoot, I need to find room in the fridge for the tomatoes and beans.

toodles...

gardening fun.....

by the way, there are new pics posted on facebook...







Well apparently I can't copy my FB post, so you'll have to go there to read it....

So here's the peppers that I picked yesterday, I was hoping the green ones would turn red, I think I'm gonna leave some of them sit out to see what they do. Now I need to get some green bells for salsa and I'm ready to go! I'm going to plant some green beans around the current corn stalks to help with a bean supply, I'm also going to replant some kidney beans to increase what I have now. I must say that I'm a bit disappointed in the amount that we got, but I'll take before and afters to show where we stand. I am happy and feel very blessed with the amount of produciton coming from the garden since I didn't get the tomatoes steaked up and the broccoli was too late to pick. We are looking for a good healthy fall crop and will see what we can do about the cauliflower that didn't produce anything. GRRRR. I also gave up on cucumbers, kinda a waste of time anyway, we don't eat them fast enough and pickles are really cheap, next year will bring better and bigger results with the new layouts, 14 8x8 boxes. We are also going to build our tomatoe cages from scratch.

Okay I really must run, lots to do and little time to do it in.

bummed back

I've been down for a week now with a bad back. I finally went to the doc on Friday thinking that I couldn't make it through the weekend without help and sure enough I couldn't. I missed so many hours this week due to pain.

I wish that Duck could get done with school sooner than later, I really want to do what I'm suppose to do, what I need to do and I can't do that working as much as I am. I can't even get my gardening done, I have so many red tomatoes sitting on the ground it isn't even funny. I lost all my broccoli and I have to harvest my cabbage before I lose it too.

The corn is growing tall and the tasses and hair is coming out.

Well a big storm is coming in and since I have been able to pop my back I need to get stuff done while I feel better.