Basement

Been home for a few days now, and they have been busy ones. My primary task has been cleaning up the basement, as seen below.

A good portion of all of this is essentially junk from my grandfather's home that needed a quick place to go after his passing last summer, and the rest of it is stuff that my Mom just kind of put at the bottom of the stairs in order to not have to actually go into the basement proper.

In any case, I have been to Lowe's several times, and have assembled quite a few shelving units in an attempt at organizing what we intend to keep. I also scheduled an appointment with the 1-800-GOT-JUNK.com people to come on Thursday and remove a lot of the old furniture that my grandfather had and is beyond salvage. An example of this would be the two 1940's era sofas that have absolutely no spring or support left to them.

There is some furniture that we are keeping - a beautiful rock maple dining room set and a solid mahogany bedroom set, complete with sleigh bed. Both are in serious need of refinishing (Pop-pop was a wonderful man, but like a bull in a china shop, and very hard on furniture), so maybe that will be a project of mine at some point in the future.