Home Depot, The Attic, and Lots of Chores...

This past weekend, Rob and I worked our butts off at home. Trip number one to Home Depot was on Friday after work. We got a new screen door for the storage room under our house that houses the new ice machine and some light bulbs for the attic. Saturday, Rob had to work, so when he came home, he came with a ton and a half of gravel. After lunch, we headed up to the attic...what a horrendous mess!! We had just let that get completely out of control! The light bulbs we purchased wouldn't work because the actual light fixture was broken, so we had to use the free standing work lights, that is much like sitting under a french fry lamp...So, from 1:30-5:30, we stayed in the attic and went through box after box after box, trashing some things, saving some things, and placing others in a pile for a yard sale. I must say, it was fun going through some of the old photo albums we found up there---some wedding memories were found, just in time for our 10 year anniversary :) After exiting the attic, we made a trip to the dump, then Rob put the new screen door up. It wasn't long after dinner that we were all wiped out! Sunday morning, we got up and headed out to Home Depot for trip #2 where we purchased new light fixtures for the attic and some boxes. When we got back home, we shoveled the gravel that Rob had brought home on Saturday. We placed that behind the house, where all the water discharges from the new ice machine. It was creating a monstrous puddle behind the house that was just inviting the mosquito population to spend their summer at the shore with us! After that task was complete (boy was i happy when that was done) we headed back up to the attic and finished that task. We had priced items for the yard sale as we went through them, so hopefully that won't be such a tedious task later on. The weekend brought more manual labor than my body has been used to in some time, and I have paid the price with soreness in the following days, but what a great feeling to have this done! I'm so excited for the yard sale on June 4 so I can finally get all of this extra stuff out of my house!

Here is the before picture:

Here's the after picture (some of those boxes/bags will be going to the yard sale/dump, but when Shane isn't around to witness it):

Here's how excited Rob was that you can finally walk around in the attic (you gotta love that big nutty man!):