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Slowly Making Progress

For most people, the optimum time to start cleaning out your garage would be summer or fall, before the snow starts. Not me.

Me? I thought mid-December would be a good time.

I finally got around to listing a bunch of our old appliances on FreeCycle and two days later, all the old stuff in our garage is gone: the ancient freezer and fridge, the ugly brown gas range, the dishwasher and cabinet. I also told the guy he could have whatever else in the garage he saw - so he took the electric lawnmower that was left with the house and a bunch of old shingles. I don't know what he'll do with them but they're not on the floor any longer so I'm good.

Now that stuff is gone, I might actually be able to position the rest of our crap in there and maybe get the car in the garage. We got spoiled having a garage at our old place (one of the few highlights of that dump) and going out and brushing off the car is a bummer, not to mention a hazard. Our driveway has small slopes on either side that get dangerously slippery with any sort of precipitation, a fact I learned the hard way when I fell on the side and re-hurt my already injured shoulder.

So maybe by Spring I'll be parking in the garage. We'll see.