Happy New Year (a bit late)

I must say that I have not been keeping up with the blog all that well of late.  We have been working a lot but at times it doesn't seem that we make much progress.  On New Years day I proclaimed to the family that I had a New Years Resolution!

This will be the year we move to the Homestead

Will we succeed?  Hard to say, we still have a lot of work to finish not to mention that our regular home isn't exactly in "move in condition" as far as selling it.

So what have we accomplished?  Lots of continued sorting of stuff in closets, shelves, etc.  Lots of cleaning. These are the activities that I primarily rely on Gloria for.  She has more patience for it than I do.

One day in early December I was in a meeting when she texted me with this:

Nasty Carpet up!

This is from the master bedroom which was added on to the house in about 1968.  She tore all of the carpet out and hauled it out of the room by herself.

With that great start as well as all the work she had done moving the furniture out (mostly by herself) this room became our next target.  We had already been trying to see what we could do with the vanity area and the bathroom.  

A day or two latter she again texted me while I was at work with the update that she had picked out a color for the paint and was busy painting.  Here are the results from day 1:

I think the interesting shirt was one she found there!

The next day she made progress on some of the closet space and other areas of the room.  After that there wasn't a lot of progress until after Christmas.  Stay tuned!