BEACHCOMBERS 2/2/2013

One of the things Ann loves about living on the beach is her walks out on the beautiful and numerous beaches near us.  Ann loves to walk slowly along, looking for agates, sea shells and whatever.  There is peace in her when she is doing this activity.  Wayne goes along sometimes.  He seems to not be the avid beach walker that Ann is.  Anyway, a few days ago we went for a couple hour walk.  We each found something we thought the other would like.  Below, you can see what Wayne found for Ann; a whole sand dollar, a unique piece of driftwood and a glass float.  The float: Gold Beach Chamber of Commerce does a neat activity each year about this time.  They hide a number of floats out along about 4 miles of beach up above the high tide zone in the driftwood and the beach grass.  People comb the beaches in hopes of finding one of these treasures.  Now Ann has one.

With all the work Wayne did in dismantling a shack for the gleaned lumber and plywood to build some garage shelves (see previous post) Ann was pleased with finding a good usable 2x4 for Wayne to add to his lumber pile.  It will be put to good use!  So, after a few hours, we took our treasures home and sat satisfied in our sun room and watched the sunset, eating our dinner of left overs.  Perfect day!

PROGRESS FROM CHAOS TO ORDER 2/3/2013

We have been busy, busy busy!  Ann has been working in the house, attempting to decide what kind and what color of carpet for the living room and changing rooms like our bedroom into something more like a bedroom than a storage unit.

Wayne has been tearing apart an old house at a neighbors place, gleaning lumber and plywood to make shelving in the garage.  Here's the gleaned for free lumber.  (Only cost was a sprained ankle from falling out of the old house while tearing it apart.)

 

While Wayne was mending his ankle, Ann was busy tackling rooms and putting more order in our lives.

 

Just one of her projects.

 And another one.....in the works.

 When Wayne finally got back to work he tore out all the old shelving that was inadequate and poorly constructed (not able to hold all he wanted to put on them) and replaced with a more sturdy design.

 Then he put things in better order and packed the shelves with all the much needed, important items that we just can't live without and seldom use.

Changed electrical stuff so we could have the garage refrigerator and freezer where he wanted them,

and got his tools in order....sort of.

Then we went to Wayne's brother's place to get more of our stuff.

 So, the house is moving in the direction of order, the garage is a work in progress and still as we unpack and reorganize, we find there are items that need to be moved elsewhere and we are waiting opportunities to store in someone else's home.  Hint, hint, hint.

 But still, the sunsets are awesome, the work is sweet and the rewards are coming