Clearing out the Attic

Before the sunny fun of retirement begins, a little rain must fall. 

We attended church at the early time to have the whole day to clean the attic.  Ladders, gloves, and vacuums were gotten out to tackle the project.  What a mess!  Years of dust and recent bits of the inside of the roof (we had a new roof put on last week so with the pounding...you see the picture) covered everything like icing on a cake that we didn't want to eat. 

If we were playing a drinking game that you take a drink every time something happens, we would have been drunk by 10 am - if the something was us saying, "why did we keep this?"  As you know, we don't drink so we had to keep going. 

Among the treasures that were found: 

• empty, original box from pots and pans we received as a wedding gift
• class notes from our college days: 3 years worth from me (graduated in 3 years including summers) and 8 years from Case (don't forget dental school)
• ribbons that Mom and I used to braid the ponies' mane before we took them to a show
• Tad's 6 foot diameter solar system project from elementary school (I think he got an A.)
• Easter bunny dressed in a red tuxedo from my 7th Easter
• tax receipts from 1985 through 1999

All of these items and more were spread out all over the house.  At 1:30 the door bell rings.  It was a young couple who wanted to see the house to possibly buy it.  Two weeks ago they had written down our open house dates.  We cancelled those dates and said that on the website.  "Sure, why not? Come on in."  They looked agile enough to step over boxes.  They decided not to buy the house.  Not for the reason you think...the husband was very tall and the top of his head was too close to the basement ceiling...that was the reason.

Sad to say that the attic did not get finished on Sunday.  We have to finish eating that cake another day.