Monthly Archives: August 2016

These were the best photos of the 6-7 tomato I grew this summer.  We bought a plant that already had tomatoes growing on it with a cage on top.  The tomatoes and the leaves were already growing sideways out of the cage and the pot was relatively small.  I was very enthusiastic and the tomatoes grew nicely in the first few weeks.  The pictures were tken when they were nice and plump.

But then before I knew it, even with daily watering and plant food, all of them split before they were ripen and the insects got to them.  We got to taste a couple before they rotted on the plant, the rest all went to the trash.  So sad.

Well, I tried and at least I had pictures when they were still promising and nice.

       

This was a project long time coming.  We have been in this house for 9 years now and I just got to it in July this year.  It wasn’t bad in the beginning, but 9 years of accumulation has made it impossible to walk through to the back.  We talked about it, me and Leo, lots of times in the 9 years that we will go down and start throwing things out or giving things away.  And I have made a couple attempts at sorting the electronic things into drawers.  But eventually, things got out of hand and were left to disarray.

After Elim left for San Diego, I was in a low spirit for a couple of weeks and decided to do something productive to get out of the funk.  And this was the project that I picked.  Boy am I glad I did.  It was overwhelming in the beginning when it was hard to move let alone sort in the basement.  After moving some out to the rec room area, I was able to slowly make progress.  It wasn’t a linear process either, things got moved around plenty of times before they settled in the final spot.  I went through all the boxes and containers this time instead of just piling them up.  Now that it’s finished,  life feels lighter too.

I didn’t stop there, I went through my dressers and threw out and gave away clothes that I don’t wear any more.   They were so crammed, they were hard to close.  Then I went to the office and rearranged the camera equipments and made them easier to access, too.

Today, I got the last big cardboard box of sheets sorted out from the rec room and cleared the last bit of misc, the rec room is also back to its original shape.

Now if only we can keep things in maintenance mode and not create any more chaos.  At least that is a goal.