On Thursday as I was answering posts, I needed a photo for a response to
Once the post was finally up, I started back on the estate stuff and worked on that until 10:30AM. Then I did my PT exercises and got a shower. My helper friend arrived just before noon.
I sent him to get more of the pork chops that we’d done in the crockpot earlier this week. He got something else but we made it work. He prepped them while I made the 10 vacuum bags we’d need. Soon 10 meals were ready for the freezer.
Once the pork was done, we started on the pantry. We were doing the inside of the big white cabinet. I had a big tray and we’d unload each shelf onto it and I’d take it into the kitchen and unload it on the island. Things needing washed were set on the right side of the sink.
Then I’d wash both sides of the doors while he wiped out each shelf, top, and sides. Then we’d load everything back in neatly and start on the next one.
Once the white cabinet was done, we did the remaining shelves on the left of it. I couldn’t face the white cabinet under the marble shelf so we stopped and washed all the things that needed it and put them away.
Remember when my #2 intern and I cleaned up the remaining kindling outside before the first snow storm? We’d loaded it into one of the big bags, I think 4 loads, and dumped it into a bag in the cellar, to be used over the winter.
But it was all mixed together with bark and hard to find what you needed each day. So my helper friend and I went down, set out 3 more bags and started sorting.
The bag center back was the really full one. On the left is the little stuff I need for the masonry heater. Center front is the kindling, and on the right, the bag of bark. I found it far too boring and so we only did about half of the big bag. But there was a good amount to be going on with sorted.
Eventually I hope to finish the bag and dump what remains over the bank along with the bark. Then I hope to clean up this section of cellar. Future chore…
I was more than finished by then. I heated up some of the minestrone from the freezer for supper and watched movies. That was it for the last day of autumn.
On Friday, the Winter Solstice, I was supposed to go to Tom’s for a Solstice party in the evening, but my #2 intern and her brother both have Covid. So it’s cancelled. Sigh. I’d planned to make 
If not then we will tackle that small white cabinet in the pantry. He leaves at noon and I have PT in the afternoon. It’s to be snowing by the time I leave for PT so I have to keep the stove going all day. I’ll have the Christmas tree on also.
And so we start the winter season….