Working Hard! Cleaning my sister's downstairs space.....

This is the before picture of Jim's room.  This will become a TV room when Margaret and I get it cleared and cleaned.

Lord..I don't believe I've ever worked this hard before!  It's not my age, or lack of conditioning, that has added to my having to take longer to complete a task.  The tasks are more intensive and time consuming than I've experienced before...Even more than the time I helped a friend clean and paint the interior of a house a body had been in for several weeks before it was found!  And, believe me, in the summer heat of North Carolina that is not good!  But, I see a light at the end of this tunnel and the cleaning is moving along much faster now.  The cats, all 7 of them,  and the 9 dogs, have been banned from the premises and I will have to be vigilant on my watch to keep them upstairs, but, I believe I am up to the task. 
Margaret and I are going to fix the garage up for the cats by making some runs on the shelving and making some nice bedding.  The dogs will have to be put out from upstairs and no longer use the doggie door (now blocked off) in the basement. 
My daughter, Marian, is coming to help paint next week.  And, my other daughter, Anna Marie, will be in to help also.  They are my life raft in this stormy sea.  Lord knows what I would do without them.

Moving Day..and a mention of snow

We have had a good bit of snow on the ground and a lot of very cold weather.   The snow has not melted and turned to dirty slush as it usually does.  The normal chain of events is a slight covering of white clinging to the house tops, trees and grass , then it's disappearance by the next day.  I've not been out except to carry a few loads of trash from the house to the end of the drive, so I have no pictures to post.  (Of the snow..not the trash!)
I have been cleaning my sister's basement and getting it ready for me to move down.   It will be my own little apartment.  Margaret's husband, Jim, lived down there until his going to Kansas, YES KANSAS!!  Jim is setting up a 911 system for Butler and it's surrounding counties.  He visits here....lives there.  We assume he will return to us when his contract is up!!!!
The basement has a full bath, a large laundry room, a work area for my desk, a bedroom, and living area with a large wood burning fire place.  There is a storage area and several closets too.  All I need to do is add a toaster oven and I'll be set.  There is a  small refrigerator  in the laundry room.  Actually the living area is the exact size of the upstairs.  I'm going to use the room which has patio doors leading out to the pool as my bedroom.  Can't wait for summer!   Jim has a huge, and I mean huge, flat screen TV down stairs too....now if I could figure out how it works.....