Work continues
28 June 2018 | Aurora, Colorado
Bill/hotter than Mexico
Tuesday was trash day and since we were not sure if the trash truck driver would take everything we put out, we worked in the garage so we could watch for him and help him get all our bundles, bags and cans in his truck. We didn’t want to get stuck with having it sit around for another week.
We are pack rats! Not bad pack rats but close. If we use part of a board, well we have to save what’s left just in case we might need more of it years later. The same thing goes for boxes of nails, screws, fittings, etc. When Tracy’s mother died, well that just added to the chaos, at least in our garage. Pots, plastic bags, yard chemicals, you name it, we kept it and are still working through it. Now it was time to get a better handle on what we had. It got separated into piles. “Throw”, “sell”, or “keep”. We got brutal with things as it was time.
A few years ago, the refrigerator in our house died and our neighbors got it out of the house for us and stored it in the garage. We’d heard of trucks going through the neighborhoods taking them for salvage. As we worked, we saw that one of our neighbors had put an old freezer out on the curb. As we worked on the garage, we saw the salvage truck show up and start loading the old freezer. I walked over and asked if they wanted our old fridge. With a gleam in their eye, the answer was “Sure”! We took it out of the garage and wheeled it to get it ready for them. A few minutes later, they showed up and a big piece of junk was gone! Now we could really reorganize the garage. We moved several shelves and now Tracy can get in the car while it's still in the garage! Success!
Yesterday’s job was to clean out the lower pool in the waterfall/stream we made in back in 1997. While we’ve been gone, both pools have been taken over by cattail so it was time to get to rid off them. Sure they look pretty but they had taken over the entire pool. If you have a pool in you’re yard, don’t let them into it. We had to pull all the rocks that we had lined the pool with out and get down to the rubber liner to really get everything out. In some places the roots were six inches thick. Being soaked in water, they weighed a ton and were in a huge matlike mass. We pulled and slowly separated it into smaller chunks and got it all out and onto tarps beside the pool. Once out, we lugged it all up to the deck and laid it out so it would dry and be easier to put in the trash cans for next weeks trash truck. I went to Home Depot and bought a pump to get the rest of the water out of the pool and that’s todays job. As it got to 101 yesterday and today’s temps are to be higher, we can comfortably work till about noon and then quit till late in the evening. Oh the fun being home but we are making progress everyday.