Plans for Spring Cleaning

On spring cleaning lists, cry piles, and the pottery junk yard.

I have to look out the window at another beautiful spring day that I missed sleeping, working nights at the big paper factory. I have one more night of nights and do hope tonight is a little easier than last night. The runs we have been doing have been quite difficult and the team is getting a little exhausted from it all. I find that working somewhat hard on the working days helps me to enjoy the days off, and for sure I need to do a large spring clean. I have all these nice spaces here at the house that need to be spruced up some.

The pottery needs a deep clean. In a perfect world I would remove everything from the space and set it all outside, then do a deep clean and allow only what is necessary back inside. I have loads of clay that need to be reprocessed, the shelving could be cleared and wiped down, and then I would need to mop the floor where everything sat. Just planning it all out here I think is a good start, as at least it’s in the back of my mind now.

Since I now have my father’s Wheel Horse tractor running I hope to take all the kiln brick up to the kiln site to clean up the area in front of the pottery shed that I use as my shop. I need to mow and landscape it a little to make things look a little more lived in. Then another big task is to break up all of the pottery in my cry pile and put it in a box and tape it up so I can toss it in the dumpster. Some makers bury the shards in a hole but that only creates issues for the next landowner after I am gone, and pets could get clay shards in their feet. Better to deal with it now.

I also have a sun porch that needs cleaning and organizing. It’s a nice space I could use to grow plants as it’s a closed-in covered porch. We store our camping gear there along with recycling containers and other items taking up space. The idea would be to put in shelving to store the camping gear and use the space to start plants for the garden. The sun porch is also a nice place to sit late fall and enjoy the beautiful scenery we have out here in the area we live in.

So there is my spring cleaning list that I may not get to until fall. But having a plan is a great start. Even if I can do one thing to make the space more comfortable to live in that would be great. Currently the whole place looks like a pottery junk yard.

If I were living yesterday a second time:I would have written this list down sooner. A plan sitting in your head is just a worry. A plan written down is a starting point.

Things I am grateful for: Beautiful scenery outside every window, even the ones I’m too tired to open.

If I get to live to be 86, I might only have: 12,672 days.

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