A busy weekend

Here is is, the first weekend in December! The weather, except for that crazy snow storm in October, has been relatively mild. We have had to scrape the windows of the car in the morning, but generally, it's been mild. While we have taken advantage of "Black Friday" cyber sales, I'm still not thinking Christmas! Not Bah Humbug, just not Ho Ho Ho.

I get on these clean up the mess kicks, but I also get complacent to what I see and overlook messes that should be shouting to me. On Saturday, as we sat in the breakfast area, talk turned to the mess of lap tops, boxes and "stuff" on the shelves below the window in the breakfast area. Wow, it was a jumble of stuff and I never saw it! So, I attacked the mess! What did we have??? In a brown box canning lids and things related to canning. In another box place mats and in a third box, napkins. Now these boxes were decorator boxes but still, they really didn't belong on the shelf. Then there were several tiered plates that were rather dusty showing that I don't use them. And finally, our 2 laptops (his and hers) were on the top of the shelves (a bit less than 3 feet high) along with wires. So I cleaned! And after moving the canning stuff to the storage where the canning jar stuff is, it looked better. I removed the 2 boxes with napkins and place mats and found a better location for the lap tops. So the breakfast area looks much better. We also moved a larger TV to that area. Today I dealt with the place mats and napkins which caused me to go through three drawers in my large china cabinet in the dining room. Some stuff went to storage, some to "fall" and "summer" areas and some to get rid of. And now that area looks better!  Talk about one thing leading to another!

So now I need to check out the Christmas stuff and see what we can put up. With a dog who still gets into things, we are limited to what can be put out on the main level as when we leave, she has access to several rooms. Maybe a tree down in the lower level? That's the next project to work on.

Dinner is in the oven. We went to Costco earlier this week and have been enjoying the meat we purchased as I've been serving some and freezing the rest. Last night was pot roast from the chuck roasts and tonight is chicken thighs baked in the oven after they were breaded. With that we will have potatoes - baked for B and sweet potato for me. Some veggie for a side and pumpkin pie from Costco - they really have good pie!

Like I said, busy weekend!!!