Eh, It’s A Start

Every year when I take these long weekends off, one of the things I say I'm going to do is to finally get my spare room organized.  And every year I don't.  I walk in with good intentions, then get overwhelmed by the sheer amount of junk in there and walk right back out. 

This morning, I told myself, "One shelf.  Just get one shelf cleaned off and organized."  And that's exactly what I did.  

I've still got a long ways to go, but it's a start.  I'm going to have to get more storage boxes, and eventually I'm going to move that black shelf out to the shed and get something a little nicer looking to put into this room.  I really hope I can get that whole shed rebuilt, because it's in pretty bad shape.  Not only that, it floods every time it rains.  That'll be sometime in the future, though.  I've got too much work that needs to be done on the house first.  

Speaking of, I checked my shutters over after letting them dry overnight and they look good.  I don't think they'll need a second coat of paint, so I put them back into the shed for safekeeping until I can find someone to hang them for me. 

In knitting news, I've only got one inch left to knit before I start the crown decreases on this hat. 

I've already picked out the next yarn I'll use for this pattern.  This is the one Leann dyed for the second Fiber Fun In The 'Sip in 2019, called Horn Section. 

It was the second colorway she'd dyed for the FFITS, the first one being called Jazz Rhapsody.  I'd bought one of those, too, but sent it to my dear friend Suzy, who left us in 2020.  

And finally, the moon is waning crescent, so I went out last night and tried to take some long exposure shots of the night sky.  

 It turned out OK, but there is too much light pollution around here to get a really good photo.  One of these days, I'm going to find myself a dark sky preserve and go camping out there.  

But right now, I'm going to go work on that there hat some more.  

Laters...