Exposition is Inevitable: Shelves!

So most of today was spent organizing. There's a little closet right when you come in our back door, and we hadn't really been using it; it had a few things left by the previous owners, and a large box had gotten stuffed in at some point, so it wasn't really usable.

Cleaning it out revealed that giant box, a crapload of dead mops and brooms, and the tarp for the air conditioner. At this point the vestibule was so crowded I had to take the mops and brooms out to the garbage so I could move around enough to sweep and put the shelves together.

Closet shelves

So now the closet has shelves, with the fish food, bird seed, and air conditioner tarp. Apparently there were coat hooks along the back of the closet, so I hung my rain coat in there, but really it's too cold on the vestibule in the winter to take your coat off out there.

Once I got the closet done, we headed out to the garage. The previous owners had piled a bunch of stuff in the back of what's now my side, and my garden stuff had been accumulating. We pulled everything out of the back, and my husband shop-vaced the floor so we could put the shelves up. So now all my garden stuff is on shelves!

Shelves!

Lawn mower/wheel barrow/snow blower tetris

I can park the car with the wheel barrow in the garage now!

Once we got done with the shelves, while he was vacuuming up the rest of the accumulated dirt, I went out back to work on the vines along the fence. What you're not seeing here is all the annoying vines that have been destroying the neighbor's wooden fence:

This is why you're not seeing them:

I discovered, as I had gotten through most of the vines, that there's a grape vine in the back right corner of the yard. I'm not sure whose it is - ours, the side neighbor's, or the back neighbor's, but the base of the vine is thick enough it must be twenty years old. I pruned it back some since it was growing up into the neighbor's pine tree.

Tuesday I planted another apple tree; it's a honeycrisp.