For the past few days we've been doing the annual push to declutter work spaces outside and in, clean up the yard and spruce up things, as well as finish many small projects that have been sitting there waiting until we have time...which we rarely do at this time of year.
Annual push comes from having a cookout at this time of year for the immediate family to celebrate three fall birthdays, one of them being the Ol' Bat's. It's a good excuse to drop everything else and get some things that need done, done before winter.
Feels so good to have those things finally done instead of waiting in my periphery, taunting me about how much I haven't gotten done!
We are winding down on the wood shed extension build, so are moving the construction/tool table and accompanying mess under the roof of the new build. Still have to put on roofing, eaves, and do some electrical wiring into that space before we are fully done, but the main structure is finished. I'm tickled to have all that wood storage space and also space to work out of the weather, store extra things or just sit out and talk.
But, also getting porch gates built, stained, outside items bleached and cleaned up, new things built, etc. this week. Feels good to get the place looking good now, so we can concentrate on getting fire wood in all the month of Oct. Still have a sorting pen system to construct but have most of the elements on hand to do so.
Will get pics up of the new shed and sorting pens when done....a lot of the free pallets/skids we collected a few years back have went into all this construction, so that feels good. We'll also be using them for wood storage platforms this year, both under the new shed and also out in the paddocks. Those things have been a true blessing from God!
Fortunately the old log shed needs minimal sorting out this year and I'll get to that next week....just needs to have things put back in their places and new places established for new, temporary things. The outside of it, however, needs a major overhaul that I hope to get to sometime this fall/winter. I'm going to remove all things off the back of the shed~lumber storage, cabinets for storing odd things, fencing, and other misc. storage and find a different place for all that stuff. Then that back of shed will only be for things that can be hung up, like various tools we use the most, cables, ropes, etc. I want to streamline all such storage so that this place looks less cluttered overall.
This decluttering, cleaning and organizing is an ongoing thing around here, but I find it really helps in knowing how to find things later on.
