Busy, busy busy.

I have been so busy lately. Spring is here and with it the first week of May.

Yes, I know they go hand in hand but here in Moorhead ,Minnesota that means yearly garbage pickup for large stuff. We have one week in the year that we can get rid of things like old furniture, dead appliances and large garbage that is not able to fit into our garbage cans for the city to pick up. And we don't get charged for this wonderful service. So this means its time to clean out the basement, garage and everywhere else to get rid of everything we don't need.

So I have to rush around and get into the garage and find all that stuff I have to throw out and clean, clean, clean. Being home most of the time I do most of the cleaning anyway but the basement and garage are by right mine, mine to clean. So I have started on that as well as my other work here.

And I hate crawling around in the basement and garage. But it's got to get done so I put up with the creepy crawlies and do it.

I also have to start cleaning up the yard from the winter and mow the lawn and such but it's not too hard. The city was nice enough to put up a fence for me that took out several feet along the back, oops, they wanted the fence to keep people from wandering across the railroad tracks but its nice for me to have less yard to mow as well. They fenced in the railroad tracks so they could run the trains through town without tooting the horns at every intersection and waking the dead as they go through.

Its really nice not to hear them as much but they still make enough noise, just not the blaring loud horns right behind the house. Someday we'll get a new place of our own, far from the tracks of downtown Moorhead, until then we have cheap rent and a great landlord.

Have a great spring.