September 21; Day Twenty-One

I still have the end of vacation blues.

However, I planned that when we came home, we would busy ourselves with home improvement projects. We have enough of those to keep us occupied for several months. One of the things we are doing is another massive purge of stuff. We have a large basement with a loft and a two-car garage with stuff. Stuff, stuff, stuff!  I estimate that 95% of all that is out there can go. Jessica weeded through Halloween decorations today and helped Liz clean out a few bins from under her bed. I went through all my clothing and cleared out quite a bit there.

Jessica loves to go through things and organize. I keep telling her that people would hire her to do that. Liz and I dislike having to decide what to do with everything. She and I have the thought process that we could possibly use that broken piece of light bulb for a craft project of some kind so we need to save it. Jessica says it needs to go.

I have been in this house for almost 21 years. I am ready for a change. Growing up, we moved approximately every two years. The house we moved into when I started high school, I stayed there for four years. When I married and moved to Oklahoma City, I lived there for five years. That is the longest I have been in one place until moving here in early 1994.

The restlessness has been growing in me for the last two or three years. So, we are purging, cleaning, fixing up, and then we will see what happens. I would like to live in a single level home. We could even go a little smaller.  It would be nice to live somewhere that we could walk or ride bikes in the neighborhood. My current neighborhood has two streets and both are on a hill. No sidewalks. The neighbors are really nice, though.

I usually get edgy in the fall. This year, there may be more than the colors of the leaves that change.