First - My nose is healing well but with sudden weather changes in temperature and pressure my face still hurts. The doctor says that I have to give my nose time and eventually it will be less but probably not fully go away.
I have started to work on Erich's workshop. The workshop building is at the back of the property; I can get to it easily by going out the back door of my studio and then walk across the yard. The space is almost 1000 square feet and it filled with STUFF, cobwebs, dead bugs, and dust. It has 2 main areas with one larger where there are cabinets and a work surface along one wall; all the cabinets are empty. Then the other space has shelves and a work surface and there is a side storage area with shelves.
I started in the small area - opening boxes that were on the floor or the shelves. It's open, think WTF, put stuff on the floor and sort - does it go in the garbage, what do I want to keep, does it go to Goodwill or Habitat for Humanity (H4H). If it is going to be donated, then I log it in my spreadsheet. At the end of the day the garbage get's bagged and put in the bin for pickup on Wednesday. Donations go into boxes and put in the car and taken to the drop off places either that afternoon or the next morning. When I am truly done for the day I go take a hot shower and relax before making dinner provided I don't fall asleep in the chair
Rinse and Repeat - Note the pictures below are in no particular order.
When I finished the small room I started on the larger room. I put a message out to my knitting friends that I had a gas powered generator and some small solar panels that could be had for free. Judy's husband Frank wanted it and so they came over with their truck to get and assist me in delivering Erich old kitchen table and chairs to Maddy; she and her husband just moved into the first house and needed some furniture. I put the coffee table in my car and delivered it. It was over lunch that I asked Frank to come back and help me and what every he wanted, provided I didn't, he could have. He's like a kid in a candy store being told he can have what ever they want.
I am about halfway done. All the tool boxes from the large room have been emptied; I first sorted all the hand tools by type, then went through each pile and decided what I wanted and then assembled another pile for a metal friend's daughter who has NO tools (and she's an engineer no less) and shipped them off in one of the plastic tool boxes. The remainder will go to H4H.
Two of the bicycles have been given away and the third, my blue touring bicycle with 21 years that I bought in Santa Barbara in 1981, I took to the local bike shop to get it cleaned and maintained - chain cleaned, new brake pads, new tires and tubes, and a new handle bar set and brake levers.
Yes there were many WTF moments - the old Navy WWII surplus tubes; more propane; more ammo; more EVERYTHING.
With focused attention I think I will be done with clearing the workshop by the end of April. And then I can work on the re-org of my studio.
I have started to work on Erich's workshop. The workshop building is at the back of the property; I can get to it easily by going out the back door of my studio and then walk across the yard. The space is almost 1000 square feet and it filled with STUFF, cobwebs, dead bugs, and dust. It has 2 main areas with one larger where there are cabinets and a work surface along one wall; all the cabinets are empty. Then the other space has shelves and a work surface and there is a side storage area with shelves.
I started in the small area - opening boxes that were on the floor or the shelves. It's open, think WTF, put stuff on the floor and sort - does it go in the garbage, what do I want to keep, does it go to Goodwill or Habitat for Humanity (H4H). If it is going to be donated, then I log it in my spreadsheet. At the end of the day the garbage get's bagged and put in the bin for pickup on Wednesday. Donations go into boxes and put in the car and taken to the drop off places either that afternoon or the next morning. When I am truly done for the day I go take a hot shower and relax before making dinner provided I don't fall asleep in the chair
Rinse and Repeat - Note the pictures below are in no particular order.
When I finished the small room I started on the larger room. I put a message out to my knitting friends that I had a gas powered generator and some small solar panels that could be had for free. Judy's husband Frank wanted it and so they came over with their truck to get and assist me in delivering Erich old kitchen table and chairs to Maddy; she and her husband just moved into the first house and needed some furniture. I put the coffee table in my car and delivered it. It was over lunch that I asked Frank to come back and help me and what every he wanted, provided I didn't, he could have. He's like a kid in a candy store being told he can have what ever they want.
I am about halfway done. All the tool boxes from the large room have been emptied; I first sorted all the hand tools by type, then went through each pile and decided what I wanted and then assembled another pile for a metal friend's daughter who has NO tools (and she's an engineer no less) and shipped them off in one of the plastic tool boxes. The remainder will go to H4H.
Two of the bicycles have been given away and the third, my blue touring bicycle with 21 years that I bought in Santa Barbara in 1981, I took to the local bike shop to get it cleaned and maintained - chain cleaned, new brake pads, new tires and tubes, and a new handle bar set and brake levers.
Yes there were many WTF moments - the old Navy WWII surplus tubes; more propane; more ammo; more EVERYTHING.
With focused attention I think I will be done with clearing the workshop by the end of April. And then I can work on the re-org of my studio.
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