Our achievements in the first four weeks of Mark's retirement

As we went on our evening walk tonight, Mark reminded me that he has been retired four weeks today; therefore, I've been retired 8 weeks.  Since we've arrived on Aug 4, we've:

-Unpacked at least 50 boxes and sorted many more - and I still found one more box of winter sweaters just yesterday.
-Set the furniture and arranged all the bedrooms but we have not hung pictures yet.  Again, we have too many for the walls we have now, so I dread trying to choose which to keep and which to either give away or sell.  Too many of them are dear to my heart.

-Almost finished organizing the kitchen and dining room...but every time I think I am finished, I find another box of kitchen items.
-Cleaned part of the barn loft and built shelves of bricks and boards to hold the garage STUFF
-Cleaned out the milk house, scrubbed it down and took photos of the milking equipment and tanks so I can find its value and put it up for sale. This is important to do before winter sets in for the buyer as well as for us.  If we have another bad winter, the buyer may not be able to come here to pick up the equipment. We need the space to put our freezer and second fridge.
-Scrubbed and dried out the dank hole in the ground that is suppose to be our basement.  Got a laundry room put together.  Bought a second dehumidifier.  Then built shelves in the basement to house the overflow of items we use now and again but don't have room for upstairs.
-As you saw a few posts ago, Mark scrapped and I painted the windows on the main floor.  We painted the front door.  We start on the second floor windows next week.
-Mark measured all the windows and we drove to Marquette and ordered storm windows for all the windows and a new front screen door.  This should make the house more energy efficient this winter.

We've put in twelve hours a day to accomplish all this, but we've slept hard at night.  It's been hard work, but good work!  We get instant gratification and I've been smiling most of the time. I do miss my girls and my babies, but hard work keeps you from dwelling on the tough stuff.  We have taken time off to sit and watch the sunset, go to the beach and take a few afternoon naps (well deserved)! 
Mark's brother Chris and his wife Vickie are coming to visit this weekend, so we are taking time off to enjoy their visit and rest.

I know you all want to see more photos and I'm trying to achieve that, but during all this I've had challenges with the internet, my phone and the camera on my phone...I'm working on getting my tablet to take its place and now I'm having issues with transferring the photos from the tablet to this computer.  Oh, the challenges of technology - when it does not work the way you need it to!!!