A Get Your Hands Dirty Day

Before:

After:

That big

box is the last load from our movers. They FedEx-ed it to us. 415 lbs (including our TV, a small recliner, a drill press, and DeWalt compound miter saw, several other various items, and a couple big boxes full of things). I am still unclear why they thought it was OK to leave that stuff behind.

Needless to say, I will not be doing a lot of lifting today. My back and shoulders are so sore!! I carried to the basement all our camping gear, a pair of skis, the compound miter saw, a table saw (hiding behind the box on the top picture), two boxes of small tools, a carpet, and 3 folding tables. I made Peter carry down the drill press, it was too heavy! I also found 4 huge bags of soda cans~ in CT you have to pay a "recycling deposit" with every can you buy. If you bring the cans back and put them in a recycling machine (one at a time, it takes forever) you get the money back. Otherwise we would recycle them with the rest of our stuff and not accumulate bags of them~ 6 lamps that I threw away, a pile of boxes I folded down, dead crickets and old spider webs, my bundt pan, Lincoln logs and Mr Potato Head accessories, and TONS of other things. I also tore down the entertainment center. I have to find out how to do large item pickup, right now I have a HUGE pile covered in a tarp at the top of my driveway.