This was a very productive weekend. Yesterday we got things buttoned up for the winter. I finished the raking and hauling of leaves in the yard here at 126. Dad put on the storm windows and packed some things in the yard away. We burned most of the pile of rose and other branches as well as lumber scraps in the backyard at 117. Then we went to work inside. We now have heat at 117, which is very nice, although I got rather hot painting. I worked on priming the bedroom where we had added the closet. Dad worked on figuring things out with the pantry and the hall ceiling. Then I hung a few smaller pieces of sheetrock in the back hall area and Dad did a good cleaning of the garage over there.

Today Dad has been working on a wiring job for someone that Gary knows. It is only a couple miles out of New Auburn. I ran over there a bit ago to help pull some wire. But I have mostly been studying today. It was my shopping day after church, so I wasn’t home until late. We had intended to do some outside work up at the duplex in Chetek, but it is raining, so that wouldn’t have worked very well. There are a few things we do need to complete there, though, before the snow settles in for good.

Also, yesterday, we moved things around a bit in the kitchen here at 126 and carried over a cabinet unit that we thought we were not going to use, but now that it is here, I like it. It won’t match the other cabinets when they are in, but it is the only set of drawers. When there is matching countertop, it probably won’t matter so much. It isn’t exactly adjacent, but around the corner fr0m where the others will be. So I spent some time getting those cleaned up and moving some stuff from the other cabinets. I eventually have to have everything out of the old cabinets so we can tear them out. But I need more shelves before I can do that.

Some pictures:

The top left is the plants in the south facing window at 117. They like it there! The next is the new cabinets that we moved over to 126. Under that is a shot of the hall to the east of the bathroom and the inside of the bathroom at 117. And finally, a flower…

I like how it is so alive in the midst of all the other dead stuff – leaves, pine needles, sticks, etc.