Christmas Break Projects

In addition to setting up the air hockey table, Craig also got to work building shelves in the basement-- in one of the closets that has been stuffed with toys since we moved here, and also in his workshop.  This will be great once it's finished, but in the meantime, it's meant moving everything out of those spaces.  So the basement is a disaster.  But we'll get it cleaned up.  Eventually.  

Craig thought he could improve on this...

And this...

So now the closet has these shelves:

And the corner of his workshop has this:

He spent all day yesterday organizing everything and throwing away a TON of stuff.  So now his workshop looks like this:

A huge improvement!

On a different note, the old fridge in our garage (which came free with the house) finally died on New Year's Eve.  Well.  It probably died a few days before that, but it was NYE when I realized that none of the food inside was evenly remotely cold.  The good news is that most of the stuff in there was all leftovers from Christmas, so it was about time we threw them out anyway.  Everything else I crammed into our regular fridge and hoped it would be okay.  (Butter should be fine, right?  It's too expensive to throw away!)

I got on Craigslist that very night and found someone nearby selling a fridge for $400.  It sure was handy having a truck to load it onto, and a wonderful neighbor was willing to come along and help with the heavy lifting.  So we had a new (to us) fridge in less than 24 hours!  Go, me!  (And go Craig and Joel, who did the actual physical labor!)

It's nice having a newer model-- maybe this one will be able to keep the freezer working even in extreme cold weather?  The new one is also significantly bigger, so that will be great.

Craig was able to get the old fridge onto the truck, along with all that stuff he was throwing away, and haul everything to the dump this morning.  I LOVE getting rid of trash.  And I love having more room in my house (or in my fridge, as the case may be)!

Happy New Year, indeed!