Dec 1st 2019

Advent means, the expected arrival of an important person or event. The 19th century is where we find evidence of the first calendars. The German Lutherans used to mark the 24 days until Christmas physically, sometimes by making a chalk line for each day.

We woke to an ice storm.

John deemed it safe enough at 10pm

To drive to Valleyview to do coffee.

We did however call Mom

And tell her to stay put.

Gassed up John's car

And we were home by noon.

Time for some work clothes

And a plan to deal with

The basement items all over the house.

Goal #1 was the back room.

Most of it was costumes, donations

Or mis-organized items.

We decided a clean sweep approach

Was our best bet.

Put away, donate or garbage 

were the only choices.

Next we emptied the wall unit back there

Which was a catch all for junk

After all the scrapbooking had been removed.

John fixed the 2 shelves

And I proceeded to load them up

With serving items, baking items

Candles and chocolate molds.

In the end it looked great, organized,

AND we had emptied the armoire

As well as 3+ bins of items.

While john washed the floor

I made quick work of making

Some pasta with meat sauce, cheese bread

And salad for supper.

I also managed to find 2 of 4

Of the counters, loaded 

And started the dishwasher.

Goal #2 was the back bathroom

I folded some laundry

And dusted the freezer top.

Costumes were folded 

and ready for vacuum bags safety,

While John did some cleaning.

Floors were washed 

And a load of laundry started.

Dinner time.

John wanted to watch a movie

Before we finished the kitchen.

I managed to get 3 loads of laundry done

And hung to dry today.

Job #3 locate the counters.

So many items out of place.

At least get them to the right room!

We made quick work of finally finding

All 4 counters after a week of them

Being covered by displaced items.

We stayed up a bit longer

To watch - yup you guessed it!

Another dumb movie 

John kept me on track

And toted empty boxes out of the house,

Dragged garbage bags away

And piled donations we will get rid of

Tomorrow when we have a van coming.

Definitely deserve my bed tonight!
Good night from John Street