More Productivity

I don't know what has come over me but I am full of energy and ready to get busy around the house. I dug through my closet yesterday and gave Goodwill over half of my hanging clothes. Wow did that feel good! I even found $7 in a pair of pants so it really paid off. I'm going to wait a week and go through it again just to make sure I tossed everything I don't want or wear.

Here's what I've got on the horizon:

I live in an old home with all the original windows. I know, not very energy efficient by I'm not ready to spend the money on window replacement. All of the window have handles to turn and you push the window out to open. A few still have the original pull down screens but many are missing. I'm hoping to have a pull down window screen installed in my bedroom on Monday so I can have the window open without the cats getting out. If I like their work, I may have them do the second window in my bedroom and one of the living room windows.

When I was gardening last weekend I didn't put flowers in the window boxes under my bedroom and living room windows because then I can't swing my windows open, which I am hoping to do after the screens are installed. I need to find some low profile, cascading flowers for these spots. I want a vibrant colour that says WOW!

I have my wood screen doors primered, now I just need to get them painted. The paint I bought that was supposed to be black ended up being a very dark blue. I'm heading back to Home Depot to get the right colour. Once they are painted I'm going to hire a handyman to hang them for me. I love having my doors open when the weather is good. The screen doors will keep the cats in and the bugs out.

I have an area in my backyard that is covered in pea gravel and random plants. I've been eying this patch of earth for an herb garden after I get all the pea gravel scraped off. My bare feet will appreciate not having those little rocks around to step on.

I'm going to be watching the backyard this weekend to see where my sunniest spots are. I want to put a tomato plant in a pot but I need to know where it will get enough sun. The main reason for this is so I can buy one of those awesome colourful cages I saw at Raley's!

My garage is a DISASTER! I swear no one in Land Park ever parks a car in their garage. They just keep their junk in them. One of my summer projects is to completely empty the garage, hose it down, paint the floor and paint the stucco wall this very cool shade of purple. While everything is out I will Goodwill or dump about half of it. I'm going to look at IKEA for some shelving and the rest gets put back in neatly.

One last project on my radar is to pull up the carpeting in both bedrooms and have the hardwood floors refinished. They are the only 2 rooms with carpet and it's a yucky colour and yucky dirty. That will happen when my son is in Israel for 5 weeks this summer.

Phew! That's all I have planned for now, but I'm sure that will change. Photos and updates will be forthcoming.