Spring cleaning

Steve is taking next week off from work so that we can tackle some spring cleaning.  We plan to finally deal with loads and loads of stuff that were never dealt with when we moved into this house in a hurry nearly six years ago.

We bought the house in the heat of the market boom and the sellers were in a rush to close and move on as quickly as possible because they were trying to close on another house that was contingent on the sale of this house.  Anyway... long story short, our home purchase went freakishly fast.  We closed less than a month after we saw it for the first time.  Needless to say, buying a house isn't a cheap thing, so we needed to get out of our rental asap.  And, we moved in even more of a super hurry because Steve was scheduled to leave country for a while.  So... in less than a month's time, we found, inspected, negotiated, bought and closed on a house, packed up everything we owned, moved it to the new house only to discover the former owners left all the stuff they didn't want behind, and unloaded all our stuff anyway because, woosh!, Steve left the next day for China.  To say that it was a whirlwind, would be a massive understatement.  And to say that we have been way too busy to really deal with the fallout ever since would also be putting it mildly.

So, here we find ourselves, back at the point of this post.  Today begins what we hope to be the biggest, deepest, most ruthless and dispelling spring cleaning ever.  Out with all the stuff the previous owners left behind!  Out with all the stuff we never had time to sort through!  Out with all the things we never touch or use!  Yes!  It'll be a whole new world around here.

In the midst of the cleanse, we also hope to get some outside projects worked on.  Haul, split and stack more firewood.  More sheet mulching.  Some spring sowing.  But, when the weather forecast looks like this:

it's rather hard to feel motivated for outside tasks.  Ugh! We got one clear day this past week for the first time in over two weeks.  This, ladies and gentlemen, is why I am always looking at land in other places.

But, hopefully this weather will keep us focused on the task at hand - Spring Cleanse 2011!  So, bring on the music, the coffee, and the satisfaction of a job well done!