As Professor Hinkle, the magician in Frosty the Snowman, famously states in his closing remarks in the cartoon as he leaves Santa to write his apology a hundred zillion times - "Busy, busy, busy", so it has been here in CT with more home projects as October began where September ended.
The first weekend in October was spent 'repairing' our master bedroom closet. The two closet dressers that anchor the hanging clothes bar had become 'stressed' causing their drawers to misalign and not close properly. I spent the day - and yes, surprisingly, it did take the better part of a day - anchoring the two dressers to the wall studs. Tammy went through the clothes on the hanging bar to lessen its load by getting rid of items no longer worn.
After we returned home from our Fall getaway detailed in the previous blog, Tammy and I attended the 2025 WIHS Gala and Expo. This is the rebranded name for what was previously the WIHS Banquet. It had been several years since I had been to this event because of my cancer and scheduled travel. It was held at the Aqua Turf Club in Southington with around 400 listeners of the radio station coming for an evening of food (served family style at your table), fun (over 30 various Christian ministry displays to visit), and fellowship (congregational singing with a message about CT's early Christian heritage).
The house got cleaned up for a visit the next Saturday. We had invited Mr. and Mrs. Brown over for dinner. Mr. Brown was the pastor of First Baptist Church where I worked at the Christian school Baptist Village Academy and where we attended church for over 20 years. Tammy made a delicious dinner of maple Salmon, rice and roasted whole carrots with a dessert of apple pie. We had a great couple of hours catching up on current events in their lives and reminiscing about old times.
I decided to tackle a complete garage clean up on Saturday, Nov 8th from the rafters down. When we moved in to our house in 2002, I stored a lot of the emptied boxes we had used in the garage rafters. I went through them filling up our large blue recycle garbage can with those of no use. I then moved to on to all the shelves throwing away items that had not been used in years and placing other items on FaceBook Marketplace to sell. Not having ever done a deep clean on the garage ever, there was a good amount of mouse poop and seeds of all sorts - stored and eaten - by said mice. (As a side note, I did buy several mouse traps after cleaning and have put them to good use.) This was a full day job taking close to 7 hours with just a stop for a 20 minute lunch.
For Tammy's birthday in September, I had purchased tickets to a local production of the "Little House of Horrors" put on by the Opera House Players. It was a Sunday matinee on November 16th at the old Fermi High School auditorium here in Enfield. Stas and Lizzy went with us, and we were all impressed by how good the performance was. We all stopped at BigY on the way home for an after show dessert which we decided on to be an ice cream cake.
It was on to the basement for the next project. Saturday, Nov 22, Tammy and I went through two storage cabinets. The one contained arts and crafts. The other had some old toys from days of yesteryear. I placed most of the toys on FaceBook Marketplace with almost half having sold to date. The arts and crafts closest was cleaned out through judicious trashing of items and finding new homes for others. We had two old end tables from when we first got married, as well as, a newer coffee table that didn't fit in our living room taking up space in the basement. Any guess as to what happened to them? All were sold on FaceBook Marketplace. Their is still more to the basement but that's for projects to come.
Sunday, I spent in the great outdoors tackling the yearly fall chore of leaf raking. Sounds easy enough, but after about seven hours, I had no more left in me. I completed the last two hours of raking the next day after getting home from work.
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