Chief Blackcloud has been off work this week, starting a new commercial job on Monday. I must admit there have been some advantages to having a househusband. The kids didn't call me 25 times every afternoon asking me to take sides in their latest trivial battle, I didn't have to hassle with getting Crazy Daisy the Wonder Dog corralled before leaving home, and best of all, some of my honey-do list actually got honey-done.
The biggest project was cleaning out the junk room. The room is about 12' x 18', and when we bought the house it contained junk from the previous owner (including a homemade coffin that the previous owner used to sleep in). We had no real use for the room, so we just added to the stacks. It had gotten so bad that there was about a two foot square space to open the door, and the rest of the room was packed wall to wall about 6' high full of crap. I came home from work at noon on Friday, and Chief and I worked NON-STOP for about 6 hours. Most disgusting find? I would have said all the mouse droppings, until I came upon a used enema kit (the previous owners). We filled our longbed pickup truck, and before we're done we'll probably fill it at least two more times, but I can see large patches of the floor, and tomorrow's project is dismantling the coffin. I feel a ton lighter, and it's not just the actual physical ton of trash we took to the dump this morning.
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