JANUARY...

Time is a wastin' as my Grandmother would say.  The last year is here.  I go in next week to apply for Medicare. 351 days from now I will be retiring from where I work with tons to do and no time to waste.

Where do I start...First things first, let's finish up my Mary Kay inventory then get the taxes out of the way. I have long lists of projects that have to be accomplished before December, such as...

Buy the truck
Buy the trailer
Start selling stuff on Craigslist 
Sell books back to a Internet buyer
Go through lots of drawers and sort out stuff to be sold, given away, thrown away or kept.
Hold a garage sale or two
Have family decide what they would like to have and have them take it. 

First item to leave the house a painting my mother did

Our KC Daughter took her painting that her Grandmother did for her.  Mom was not a painter but she worked hard at it and managed to produce some beautiful work. 
Her last piece ended up looking like a Georgia O'Keeffe original. It was of pink water lilies. Her teacher said it was one of her finest works. 

The old Singer treadle sewing machine that was my great grandmother's, transported across the prairies of Oklahoma Indian Territory in a covered wagon, has been cleaned out and I have the task of sorting out what was in the cabinet

Singer Sewing Machine it still works

drawers and disposing of it. Just lots of little trinkets of the girls when they were little that amounts to Nada, why do we keep this junk? For what purpose? The KC kid will take it this spring when she has help getting it up to her apartment. 

I have an 1880's rocking chair that one of the girls will get and another 1880's chair that was my great grandfathers when they had the farm, will be given to a family member.  The last piece is a ceder chest that is over 100 years old.  

So lots going on besides the every day stuff. So it begins!

Bueller...Bueller...We are counting!!!