Basement

This weekend we were very busy working on the house, but not in the way where we end up with a finished room or a new light or something. When we "moved in" to the house just over a year ago, we only unpacked essentials. Over the year, we gradually dug up things we needed from the mountains of boxes in the basement. The end result of this method of "unpacking" is a mess of broken, half-empty cardboard boxes with no discernible organization strewn all over the basement. So yesterday we started really unpacking the stuff down there. Obviously, since we have lived without this stuff for over a year, it couldn't be that important, but we did find a few gems:

• My olivewood peppermill that Damian's grandmother just replaced for me because I figured I'd never see it again.


• Many old photos.


• The "Do Not Disturb" sign from the hotel we stayed in when we visited Iceland a few years ago (I'd write it in Icelandic here, but there are letters to their alphabet I can't type on an American keyboard).


• More purple wool fabric than I thought I had left from the bolt I bought for $1.00/yard 5-6 years ago.

Now a large section of the basement is CLEAN! And ready for firewood! Where we will keep it this winter so we don't have to go outside to get it every few days!

Also, on a completely unrelated note, I put the basket backpack on, rode my bike that I have finally been reunited with (it was still in Boston until very recently), visited my neglected garden this afternoon, filled the basket with veggies, and, well, see for yourself:



I will make tomato sauce this week to freeze it. I'm really looking forward to those tiny little eggplant. I don't know why they didn't grow any bigger, but they'll still be tasty (I hope). I'm also really looking forward to harvesting my pumpkins! They are beautiful.