Busy, Busy, Busy

 What a week!!!  Haven't been that cold since I went skinny dipping in Korea in January after cutting a hole in the ice!

Ok, that latter might be a  bit of an exaggeration. Well, at least the skinny dipping part was.  Most of the thermometer temps here were in the 20's and the "feels like" temps were in the single digits.  That had several big effects on us.

First, the fixing up of the front porch at our old house, now being transformed to a B&B that'll sleep eight, came to a complete halt.  Hammering fence nails, cutting cattle panels and sawing wood framing with numb hands didn't seem like a very safe idea.  

Mrs J, being the ever vigilant and talented project planner, shuffled the plan schedule and reprioritized the "Indoor Plan" to the # 1 priority and moved the outdoor plan to "Later" status.  It's still pretty cool outside, but tolerable.  However, the probability of percipitation this week is well above 50% every day.  That's the weather guessers prognosis and could change.  At which point, we'll reprioritize.

Again!

However, there is actually a lot of progress being made.  I can now see the top of my desk and now remember that it is made of wood and not envelopes, paper and notepads.  Who knew?  Cleaned out the closet in there.  OK, to be precise, I moved all the stuff that was in there into the office itself. 

 

 Found out that we have quite a bit more wine in that closet than I thought we did. Was a bit concerned that some of the older bottles (inherited from my Father's collection when he passed) might be a bit past their prime.

So, with Mrs J's permission, we tried one of the oldest ones with our Barbecued Hamburger, Corn on the Cobb and Home Fries.

Yes, Tuna, that's me exhibiting my Gourmand skills!

Oh, Man!  Was that 24 year old Pinot Noir good! Nay, Excellent!

Another treasure uncovered in the closet stirred quite a few memories,  There were several cardboard mover's boxes in the closet also.  They were full of pictures.  Some were fairly recent, pictures of our grandkids for example.

 

 

Others, well,  not so recent.  Pictures of my parents and grandparents dated from when my parents were about the age of my current grandchildren.  

Now that's a treasure!!

Reminder of a time when things weren't quite so pleasant!

Unfortunately, since Mrs J's standing order is to declutter and depersonalize the house (under the direction of our realtor), I've got to move those boxes out of sight in the attic for the time being.  The plan is to purchase a Skylight picture frame, and load the pictures into it.

Folks, those things are cool.  You, or anyone you add to the permission list, load pictures on it and they rotate through automatically.  We've had one for a few years and it's great.  We're going to get a second one as the pictures in the boxes are very numerous and the Skylight is limited to 8GB of storage.  The oldest picture gets deleted to make room for the newest.  So, we're going to start from scratch and monitor upload file size and see how we do since these photos are priceless.

Going to have to figure out how to balance, the "decluttering" the house with the scanning and uploading pictures.  Probably will need a new box for storing uploaded pics and only bring down a manageable number to handle that process without cluttering.  

Oh well, it'll keep me off the streets at night.

So, as I said, making progress.  Weather is supposed to be nice this week, so maybe the porch will be finished.  To do list for today is to call the Realtor and get his recommendations for a handiman to fix the back door on our current house and replace the shower stall in the old house (covered in hard water residue).  

I don't know if we'll be ready to post the "For Sale" sign in March like we/he wanted, but soon.

Hope you all weathered the weather last week safely.  

Oh and, one more, just for the embarassment factor.

Someone's first Christmas!

 

 

 Little J, back when he was "Little".

Peace out, y'all!