In the Works

I know - I have been slacking on this blog.  We have many projects in-process in our house, (which is as it always is), the problem is I don't really have much of anything exciting completed right now to talk about.  I could go into rambly details about how I organized my hall cabinets that hold cleaning supplies and medications, but there is not a whole lot to say about that except apparently we hold on to medication in this house long past the expiration date.  I started with big tupperware containers full of medicine and ended up with a bottle of Tylenol.  Oh, and in case anyone is wondering, the proper way to dispose of prescription drugs is to either take them to a pharmacy that accepts them, or take them out of their containers and mix them with coffee grounds or kitty litter.  We had coffee grounds so that is what I did, and it made quite a mix - there was everything from old ADD meds to painkillers to antibiotics.  Seeing it with the coffee grounds made me briefly wonder what would happen if someone were to, say, brew it, but I digress.

Hopefully soon I will have jewelry stands made custom by Eric, as I have been hinting and hinting (by hinting I mean sending photos and talking dimensions).

But our next big project is redoing the back yard by regrading and re-sodding and breaking up a concrete pad and tearing out a retaining wall.  We also have to finish a room in our basement where we took up the carpet and now are trying to get the glue off the concrete underneath so we can make a finished concrete floor.  Unfortunately the glue is, well, sticky, and any method we have tried (grinding, sanding, scraping) is tedious and soul-crushing.  So if anyone has any methods for removing carpet glue off a concrete floor, please share!