Baby it's cold outside!
We are in the midst of a good old Ohio winter, it's been three years since we have experienced a good long winter! Cold and blustery! This week we are in the teens, windchills make it single digits. I walk out the door and want to retreat to the fireplace.
What better time to start indoor projects?!
Dec. 6th I ripped the old office apart and went through 40 years of papers, birthday cards and life's detritus. Drawers filled with rubble; old belt buckles, brass gun casings, the shell casing from catching my first halibut in Homer, Alaska, kids baby bracelets, kids baby teeth, cloth patches ment to be sewn on backpacks from trips around the world. So many old sketchbooks and pencils no bigger than a nub but worthy of keeping....... why?
The pens & pencils I couldn't part with, stuffed in my Grandma's old salt box and keys to her back door and garage.
I bought Billy bookcases from IKEA and decided to give them a built in appearance with trim and base board moulding. They went together pretty easily and I did beef them up to hold loads of books and pottery.
Used a plank of pine for my desk and ran new wires for my computer, printer, chargers and camera equipment. The point that I got off my knees and surveyed the progress I realized the rats nest of wires were not going away! This makes me crazy! Maybe it's that weaving thing I do; creating order out of chaos but this was not going to fly! So I ordered more shelves and had to wait two weeks.
Spent half a day untangling, tethering, zip tying and labeling the spaghetti of wires. Yes, we still have a landline.... two days later I discovered at 6:30 am my bitter half had decided to convert our entire house to fiber optics with another company! They knocked on the door at 8 am and launched rapid fire questions at me about passwords and what did this line go to and how many tv's and computers we had, and and and..... we have one TV and one computer....... but Butch decided we needed 1000 mbps! The technician asked who in our house was a gamer because we had enough mbps to play the fastest games on the internet! I told him I have a bird buddy and that was the best game in town! A bird feeder that takes pictures of birds and then alerts me to the bird at my feeder or squirrel.
Of course he had no idea what that was....... I took him outside and showed him. Nope didn't need many MBPS for that.
The downside of running 1000mbps, my phone no longer worked on our wifi and I needed to go to an upstairs bedroom to get service on my iphone. My computer refused to connect unless hooked with an ethernet to the modem and on it went. There is no tech service, only an APP with AI that wants to help you, kill me...... by December 15th I was so over fiber optics and people telling me how great this new technology would be; I called bull shit! I finally threw my hands up in the air and got back to building bookcases without WIFI or internet or youtube.
Finished up December 19th! The storage gained is amazing and much needed!
Then I broke out the label maker! Whoo Ha!
and I rolled to the pantry...... installed puck lights and labels!
Be still my heart and why didn't I do this 40 years ago! Oh ya, I had little kids and was on every corner in Cleveland selling pots!
After all that Christmas arrived on schedule. Took time for beach walks and snow and holiday cheer.
and now it's 2025 and we are organized! Still projects, new knee pads and more adventures (hoping not on my knees)!
Happy New Year!
but for now ..........
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