It has now been a little over two months since I retired. It has been a good two months. I have cleaned most of my house, something I didn't devote time to when I worked. I used all the usual excuses, too busy, not too bad, etc... It feels good to have the downstairs and my son's bedroom cleaned. I still need to do our room and the craft room.
We had quite a few spiders (old farm houses with dirt basements are good spider homes) who did not like my cleaning so they tried to take over. We set off bug bombs and they appear to be gone. We also sprayed around the outside of the house and hopefully that will work. We tried two old remedies before that didn't really work to well. We brewed tobacco in water, strained it and added lemon scented dish liquid and put that around the outside of the house. It appeared to work for a few weeks but no longer. The second was hedge apples in the house and they didn't appear to work at all. They just turned bad and we threw them away. So the bombs and outside spray appear to be the best remedy.
I have put off tackling the craft room since there is quite a bit of stuff in it. I am not good at organizing and to be honest, am not sure where to begin. I may buy some tubs and sort things in them just to get the room cleared and then start putting things back. It may take a while.
My goal is still to stay off until the end of the year and then in January begin looking for a part time job. That will allow me to be home when my son gets out of school and help with his homework which was my original objective.
Well, enough for now more later.
