Storage


Happy New Year!


Today I started the final phase of our current storage organization project. I went where no Paul has gone in about 3 years (since our garage sale). I entered the old storage shed. My goal is to clean it out, fix any leaks and fill it back up in an organized fashion. The hope is that between the old shed, the new shed and the garage we can have accessable storage. That means knowing what is there and being able to get it without digging through piles of stuff.


I’ve had success with this in the new shed. I have retrieved a number of items, usually quickly, from that storage area. I’m also tossing a lot of “maybe I’ll use this someday” junk. We have a good idea now after 2 plus years of retirement of what we will use.


So the new year begins with a push to organize – just like every other year.


I do have a few projects to do that were buried in the shed. One is to put my little outboard motor back together and get it running. I’m going to get back to fishing some this year and the jon boat is a better option for that than the kayak. I also have 2 or 3 electronic gadgets I want to look at to fix. One is a small convection oven that has a thermostat problem. Another is my old Sony turntable.


Those projects are may-do items. They have to be worked in with this year’s main projects: Organize the kitchen, redo bathroom, finish old remodeling, train for River Run, finish writing my “novel” and, of course, organize our storage.


I’ve been having fun ordering a bunch of free-after-rebate stuff on line. It seems a number of companies are dumping software. I’ve ordered movie studio software, audio recording software, print shop software, drawing software and it’s all free after rebates. We also found that laptop memory was on sale so we ordered memory to max out Penny’s laptop’s RAM.


The temperature is supposed to drop into the 20s tonight and be in the 40s tomorrow so I won’t be sweating when I work on the shed tomorrow.