Status of the projects at the end of the weekend

[hrj]

• The kitchen nook has been cleared of cookbooks, bookshelves, loose art supplies, and miscellaneous other detritus.


• The two tool cabinets that live in the upstairs office have similarly been cleared of accumulated stuff


• although I haven't yet moved the stereo components and LP collection off of them.


• (These will go down into storage in the 2nd bedroom for the nonce.)


• Today's task is to similarly clear the decks on the desk in what will be the Art Nook so that


• the desk can also be moved down into the 2nd bedroom temporarily


• (first removing the second pair of tool cabinets from the 2nd bedroom).


• Then the art cabinet and drafting table move from the kitchen nook to the art nook


• the tool cabinets move from the upstairs office and 2nd bedroom to the kitchen nook [see notes]


• (pausing momentarily to trim half an inch off the bottom of two of them)


• leaving a space in the soon-to-be-former-office to set up the IKEA buffet and dining room table


• Oh, and there's a small formica kitchen table also occupying space that is about to become dining room. I think the best thing for it is to go to Goodwill.

The large tool cabinet has been moved into place including going through the contents and throwing out a bunch of stuff. There really is a lot of stuff I save that "comes in handy" eventually, but there's also a lot of stuff that somehow never gets used. I don't need old phone cords with broken tabs. I don't need the cordless drill that stopped holding a charge. I don't need three baggies full of woad seeds (given that they re-seed themselves quite nicely, thank you). And I really don't need every single scrap of craft lumber left over from every single woodworking project I've ever done. Maybe tomorrow I'll tackle the other upstairs cabinet and decide I don't need three tubs of dried-out spackle, two dried out tubes of caulking, a box of assorted rusty "recovered" screws, and a stack of square panes of glass intended to be made into medievaloid camping lanterns 20 years ago.