From "Enter At Your Own Risk" to "Welcome Friends....

My entry is its own little room. I've always, until recently, kept it "ready for company". I'm unable to say when it first became too embarrasing to even open my front door. It became a room which isolated me from the outside world until today when I was able to face it and "put it in order"

Here is the before picture:

Supplies Used:
Garbage Bag (Most Important Tool)
Dusting Cloth
Pledge (the kind you spray not the kind you say)
Vacuum
Courage
Time to complete: 20 Minutes

Favorite moment from this experience...I found a set of keys for a lock I haven't been able to open for eight years and a love seat and chair that I forgot I had....

Here is the after picture:

TA DA!!!!!!

I'm Alive.....

Furnace Room COMPLETE

Materials Used - Garbage Bag, Dustpan, Broom, Rag, Dustmask, Bravery
Time to Complete - 30 Minutes

I've come out on the other side of the "Spiders' Den" (yes, that's right----plural scurrying earth monsters-----ugh). I didn't know that the top of my water heater was a beautiful metallic blue (I think I'd like a car that color)....
Here's the "proof".....

The First Step........

My incredible daughter figured out how to upload my pictures, so here are the before pictures of the furnace room.

Stand by for the after pictures....

And Away We Go......

When I contemplated the enormity of the task at hand, I decided to go with safety first.

It's been over eight years since my furnace room has been clean (unless you want to count the time it got "dusted" by the contractor repairing my furnace). Since my house is protected by killer dustballs, they would probably make good kindling for a nasty fire.......off I go....

Well, I tried to take a before picture and Adobe Photoshop downloaded all my pictures and then automatically erased them from my camera and now won't give me access to look at my pictures........I can hear you saying "you're too old for all these fancy gadgets"...... (I hope I can figure this out). Anyone have any ideas about my "lost pictures"?

Also, my furnace room is much worse than I thought it would be-----spider webs the width of spaghetti (okay, a slight exagerration) and all of the old parts from my old furnace, and of course.....KILLER dust balls!

Try, try again.......

Catch you later!

My Journey Begins.....

I know, you expected this to be completed when you clicked on, but this is my first step.

I hope to have a journey fast enough to call it an accomplishment and leisurely enough that I can still "take time to smell the roses".......

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