Out with the Old...

As we prepare for the great move to the new place, some things have to happen at the old place. One of them is to clean out our moldy, damp old basement.

So on the first warm sunny day we've had in a while, I opened the two basement windows and started heaving stuff outside. (Ok, the fragile stuff I placed gently on the grass -next- to the window. But the junk got HEAVED.)

When I came outside to clear away space near the windows it looked like our basement had thrown up. :)

The rotten, moldy cardboard burned exceedingly well with the application of a bit of kerosene to get it in the mood. The plastic that I'm going to reuse right away (shelving, for example) got a scrub and a bath in bleach water. Several bags of trash and recyclables later, the basement looks very empty. Notice I didn't say clean. It's got leaks galore, so "clean" isn't going to happen very easily.

Bonus find: plastic dishes my folks used in their Airstream. Not sure if we'll use them or not in ours, but it was a nice "ah ha!" moment.

My dear wife has boxed up the rest of the house, so this is small potatoes compared to her herculanean task, but this image was striking, so here it is. :)

The storage room is on track to get finished up this week. I've got almost all the materials on site to finish. I do need some rafters and some insulation and some wall board, but they'll come.

The pool was about eight inches shy of being full before this big rain storm today. My calculations show that unless we got about eight inches of rain it won't fill the pool up. Have to call the pool water guy tomorrow and ask for a delivery. I WAS able to install a new face plate on the skimmer that has a "tupperware" type sealable cover. So theoretically this will be the last time I have to order a pool water delivery. It's supposed to eliminate the "drain down" in the fall. We'll see if it actually works.

Cheerz!