Clearing out

Dave's brother has done SO much work at Pop's house.

This past week, he rented a FULL sized dumpster, and Dave and Eric went to the house on Wednesday, and they all worked ALL DAY filling that dumpster with two lifetime's worth of junk.

Mike says there may be enough for another half dumpster next week, after this weekend's garage sale.

I am hoping no one buys the depression glass pitcher and glasses set.  I will happily adopt it, since I identified it for Mike, and he was able to place a value on it.

Last I heard, he had made almost $2,000.00 in garage sale funds by yesterday afternoon.

Larry and Denise came down from Kansas to help.  Finally. Now that the hardest work is done (sorry, I can't help but be snarky).

With the garage sale, along with the sale of Pop's cameras, HAM radio equipment, and Mom's valuable collectibles, the house painting, repairs, and re-carpeting are being paid for without touching Pop's savings.

This is a wonderful thing, since his new residence costs ALL of his monthly retirement income, and then some.  Just living there will remove money from the trust savings every month.

I think Dave might be ready to go visit Pop soon.  He hasn't seen him since that first weekend at the new place.  He really needed a break.

We got our hoped-for antique secretary desk, and have converted it into our home bar.  It's perfect!  We also got the rocking chair, and a glass front book case we did not anticipate.

It will be used to replace a cheap particle board book case that I got when I lived in the condo.

Eric and his friend moved the big items for us.

I need to go through all of my massage therapy and spiritual books and clear some out.  I have made good money at Half Price Books doing that in the past.

I am holding on to many of the books for sentimental reasons, and really never look  at them much.  They need a new life with someone who will use them.

If I clear enough stuff out, we can dispose of the thrift store book shelf in the bedroom, too, and make some extra room in there.

Dave is making noises about getting a new bed.  I'm not convinced yet..that's a lot of money.

Anyway, it's good to change things up occasionally.  Moves the energy around, and opens the way so that other, deeper changes can feel comfortable when they arise.

My car finally got picked up and taken to the body shop.  The other party's insurance is paying for me to drive a FREAKING CADILLAC CTS!

We are having a great deal of fun with this top of the line, ALL options included, 2019 luxury car.

It has a brain capable of knowing that it's cold out, so it should turn on the heated steering wheel.  Or it's warm enough for the a/c to come on, and make the car a perfect 72 degrees.

And it buzzes the left side of the driver's seat if another car is too close on the left side.... or it buzzes the right side of the seat if there's a car coming up too close on the right.

There are so many gadgets and gizmos we don't know the half of them yet!

My car was damaged pretty badly, and won't be ready to pick up until the end of next week.

I reviewed my outstanding loan balance, and there is likely no way we can trade the car in yet.  I wonder how many more times it will be hit before I can trade it off on my tank.

Today, I have a yoga and traditional Ayurvedic lifestyle class I am going to for 2 hours.  Should be interesting.

Other than that, some cooking and relaxing.

Our plans with our friend for last night fell through because she wasn't feeling well.  We'll do a rain check.

My massage appointment got canceled yesterday, too.... My massage therapist's grandma died.

After my morning yoga class, I came home and got the house clean, then everything started canceling.  *shrug*

Yesterday was sort of a bust, but then it was nice to just be home and have a clean house!

Fortunately, I had a chicken in the fridge that I was going to cook tonight, so I did that last night with some roasted sweet potatoes.

It got warm enough yesterday afternoon to open up the storm doors and to sit outside for a while.

I'm starting to think about starting another container garden, and putting an herb garden in the ground this year.  We have a week off in April to get these things underway.

We do not celebrate St. Patrick's day, as it honors a man who converted pagans of our ancestry....so he's not really relevant to us, HA!  But we will raise a Guinness to our ancestors!

Have a good Sunday!