Happy Independence Day, if you’re in the US!
I realized last night that although I talk about the seven levels plan being low stress, I had never talked about how it’s low stress, at least for me! I said it was explained in LEVEL 3, but there wasn’t an explanation — sorry!
This is one problem with working on something literally for years. I have pages and pages of notes, plans, ideas, diagrams, successes and failures, and sometimes things just get forgotten. I’ve added an explanation of why I consider my plan low stress. If you use the LEVEL 3 tab above, the explanation is there.
It’s Thursday, our usual farm/market day, but I didn’t go today, I went Tuesday instead!
Five days a week I do the ALPHABETICS and 6 other levels. Even if I don’t do any level work on Monday, because of the extra ALPHABETICS, I certainly need to do at least one level the rest of the week!
So, today’s LEVEL work is LEVEL 3: Walls, Windows, Doors & Floors. I’ll use this to encompass the entry cleaning I did this morning. I spent 2 hours scrubbing the floor, emptying the coat rack, cleaning it, cleaning the walls, and then I sanded the baseboards, preparatory to our painting them. I also cleaned/waxed the bench, but that’s the least of what I did!
LEVEL 3 [x][x][x][x] ||[x][x][x][x]
Today’s ALPHABETICS
D – DRAWERS – I’ll go through at least one drawer and clean/cull it. Top right dresser drawer 8/11/19 (5 minutes)
I – INDIGO – The indigo rug has been put back in the laundry room. (5 minutes) The floor needs to be swept before it’s actually in use again. (5 minutes)
N –NAVY BEANS – I’ll use this as an opportunity to go through the dried beans in the pantry. I got carried away, ended up cleaning most of the pantry shelves! (25 minutes)
S – SEEDS – The unused seeds need to be planted, tossed or put away! One Two packets have been dealt with, the others have NOT. (5 minutes) The open box got dealt with, as well as the pieces stored on top of the box where the seeds get put away. (10 minutes, 8/12/19, this got rather involved!)
X – RANDOM – I don’t have anything in my house which starts with X! I’m not sure whether to count the unplanned pantry cleaning, the entry cleaning, or sheet changing, but they all count! DH did more porch painting today as well as mowing.
[x] [x] [x] []||[] [] [] [] (10 minutes uncounted)
Other Work: I used the 2nd formula to clean the walls and floor of the entry, which included pulling everything out of the entry, cleaning it as appropriate and then returning it when the floor was dry and the baseboard was sanded.
When we painted the room a few years ago, we didn’t paint the baseboards — as we had a fundamental disagreement about to do with them. I wanted to replace them, DH didn’t. We found a solution to my issue last year. The baseboards, like almost everything else in this house has a small ledge. We are filling it with caulk and then painting the baseboards. No more dust-catching crack — hurrah!
Painting the log walls in this house is not trivial. It requires removing the existing varnish, sealing the knots, primer, sanding, primer, sanding, primer and then paint! Even so, where we painted before, the knots are bleeding through. We discussed that this morning too, and the solution.
Baseboard is sanded in the entry, bench, vase, baskets are put back. The coats are still on our bed. I’m hoping I can find the ogee brackets I’d painted to replace the shelf brackets over the coat hangers! Then I could replace them and get that done and put the brackets up for sale!
I washed the bottom sheet and remade the bed. I put back the seasonally appropriate coats. (The entry looks great!)
Culls: A thermometer cover, a bottom sheet, a roll of contact paper, 2 seed packets, 2 cassette tapes, a binder, styrofoam balls, sweater, mini Christmas tree, 2 food containers
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