Chuckles Chuntering

This week the work continues! *GROANS* Today I did my final shopping for the food cupboard so now it is full to capacity as is the fridge and freezer. I'm loaded for bear and ready for winter! Just need to top up the stock of water and low/no sugar drinks and we're all set.

Today we've been working hard again, getting stuff moved. Our hall is completely clear of crap now other than a few bags set up for charity shop, rubbish dump and recycle bin. All of this will be gone by the end of the week though. The living room is almost organised with maybe another few hours later this week to get everything sorted and into its place. My computer desk is tidied as well. I do still have a few piles of newspapers to cut for my scrapbooks but that will take me the whole winter, doing a bit at a time, so that won't be done anytime soon. My bedroom is pretty much done now. Over the winter I'll be sorting through my cds and deciding what I'm keeping and what can go to the charity shop, as I don't get much chance to listen to music now. I have to tidy up the TV unit a bit but might tackle that one night this month. Other than that and cutting up some magazines, I think I'm done with that. 

My dad's room is where the work really needs to be done and that is what we're working on this week. He still has to build his new cd unit. We then need to split his cd collection-half to be stored in those two units in his room, the rest in the hall. He'll be gradually sorting through each cd deciding what to keep and what to send to the charity shop.This is the time consuming and tiring bit, doing all the lifting and carrying. The good thing is that we can see progress being made and we are getting there! 

We also want to try and finish the patio area in the back garden before winter kicks in. Basically we need to put bags of earth around three sides of it to level it off, which we hope to pick up later this week. Then we buy in the bags of gravel to go on top of the soil to get it to the height of the patio, ready for future planting!

And now the saga of the fence. In August we asked a guy for a quote. It took three weeks for him to finally come and look at and measure the job. He said he'd come back the next day with a quote and if we were happy, he'd start the following day which was September 7th. That was the last we saw of him and it is now mid-October! My dad is super pissed at being messed around and now we are scrambling to find someone else to take on the job before the winter kicks in, but we've had no luck so far. We have a few more places to try but our hopes aren't high. Meanwhile, the slugs and snails are winning the battle with my dad but we still have a few more tricks to try yet!