Plans In Place

 I have been busy this summer and have not posted. My hip has improved enough that I am not having the intense pain I had in the past. I can do things without a lot of discomfort. I need to remember to do chunks of work that I can finish without getting too tired or sore.

The Yard

The garden was growing rapidly and I was excited. One morning I woke and the deer had pruned the peppers, beans, peas, and cucumbers. I was upset but knew it would happen one day. The deer have lost a lot of their environment to housing developments and are eating plants in everyone's gardens/yards. 

The plants recovered and grew like crazy. As the vegetables developed, the deer came in and feasted two more times. I now have to pick on a regular basis to get anything. Next year I will have to put up some sort of fencing around the boxes. 

I did pull the garlic and had a decent crop. They are drying in the garage. I have picked peppers and am happy with what I got. 

I have got cucumbers, beans, and peas also. The carrots are growing well as are the leeks. 

I am now getting ready to clean up the yard and get things put away for winter. It will take me a month to do it all as I have to clean out the shed and rearrange it. 

The House

I was away for 2 weeks (went to Sweden) and am struggling at getting back into the swing of cleaning the house. The time change and then the humidity knocked the energy out of me. I also had to have my hip worked on as it rotated inwards some from so much walking in Sweden. 

I am moving towards doing fall cleaning which includes washing walls, scrubbing windows and cleaning out everything that I don't need. I did a declutter of the dining room and it felt good getting rid of old paperwork and items that had not been dealt with. I need to do that in every room of the house. 

I have decided to buy a gallon of paint and start painting upstairs on my own. I have a plan of cleaning the coat closet, wash the walls and trim in that area and where the sever is in the dining room. I will paint that first. It isn't a big area but one I can do easily on my own. It will be in the light grey I love to keep it light and airy. I want to keep going doing a given area at a time. If it takes me months to do it, I am okay with that. 

I have made some decisions on how I want the house to look. I am sticking with the grey walls throughout the upstairs. I know I can paint them. I will hire someone to change out the trim and add crown moulding. The kitchen will be the biggest change and I will have to hire that out. It is more than I can do on my own. 

I am ready to do this. I have worked through my grief and, though I miss the Spousal Unit a lot, I am ready to make the changes in this house. 

The craziness begins as soon as I have done some cleaning and prepping.