Today we drove to Fitchburg to pick up a Singer sewing machine from Grandma Eva. We’ll have to get it serviced and also clean up the wood on it and get it back into working standards. It is a beautiful machine and will make a nice addition to Allison’s crafting room. Continue reading Heirlooms and House Cleaning
Today I delved deep into into the cleaning of the new house. I figured that with anything you’ve got to start at the bottom and work your way up. So I started in the basement. I took the shop vac over and some brooms. I swept and swept then began vacuuming the cobwebs and lots and lots of mouse poop. The basement was pretty well cleared out but there were a ton of poison traps and regular mouse traps all over the place. I took all of them down and found a couple of petrified mice. That was a bit gross but the worst was when I had clean and swept a whole area and then knocked a poison trap off the rafter and BAM! Mouse poop everywhere. More sweeping and more vacuuming. Continue reading The Future Man Cave