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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Stuff Elimination

For some strange reason yesterday was the day we picked to clean the pantry/storage room.  Our house has a full basement—unfinished.  One room is my quilting studio, the smaller middle room is the pantry/storage room and the third room is Michael’s workshop and more storage.  When we came home from Texas a lot of stuff was dumped in the pantry—so much stuff you could hardly get around in there.  So, we had a purging, a ruthless purging—Michael made three trips to the landfill with stuff we decided we could live without!  We now have empty shelves and there is nothing on the floor!  A couple times yesterday afternoon I went downstairs just to gaze at our clean room!

Sunday night about 7pm, Michael said, “let’s take a drive.”  We drove up to the Elk Creek trailhead and got to see an awesome thunderstorm roll through our valley.  On the way up the sun was shining--IMG_7156We stopped the jeep at one point just so we could watch the storm and hear the rain and thunder.  IMG_7163The sun came back out and there was a rainbow over our neighbor’s shed and hay.

Today was yoga and quilting.  I loaded a quilt which belongs to a lady from the RV park in Texas and finished it today—just a simple meander—fast!  Michael worked on the mower for the tractor and drove up the Boulder to install some sort of baffle (?) in a fireplace insert he built a couple years ago. 

On our walk this morning we kept hearing that “hoot” a grouse makes—it sounded quite near and I finally caught sight of him—he was courting his lady friend—she was heading the opposite direction as fast as she could!

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IMG_7170For some reason I think these grouse are hideous when in full courtship mode!  Maybe that’s what the female grouse thought too??

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5 comments:

  1. Beautiful pictures as usual. When you get done with your clean-up you are welcome to come north and help around here.

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  2. Don't you just love it when a storage area is clean and orderly? I know I do. Sometimes I wonder why we hang on to so much useless stuff!!! Great photos of the storm!

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  3. Always feels so good to clear out unwanted items.

    Love the rainbow and storm clouds!

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  4. Your flower on the hillside photo is beautiful.

    My workshop right now is a disaster. I can barely walk around in it following our little reno project. It is going to take the same type of effort as you put into your pantry/storage room to get it back in usable shape.

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  5. It is liberating to get rid of stuff that just hangs around and has little use or value.

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