Shoes Galore

I finally sorted through the high heels. About 50 pairs may be worth saving and trying to sell, and the remaining 130 pairs (?) will end up in a theater, costume shop, art studio, or the dump. UPDATE: I posted the reject shoes on craigslist for free... I got a dozen emails from interested parties, but the boxes were picked up from the driveway sometime during the night. Yeah!

Three boxes of rejects:
























The keepers:

If a Woodchuck Could Chuck Wood...

...then we would have hired him. Instead we rented a log splitter and chopped up the dead cedar and juniper trees. Easier than using an axe but still rough on our backs!


The logistics of the splitting required us to move the logs up the hill to the south deck area, chop them up, then stack them on the east side of the house near the boulders. The yard is looking cleaner and cleaner...

BEFORE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AFTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Seeing the Light

The dumpster is gone, seven tons of metal are scrapped, and all the trees are trimmed. Now we can see the topography of the yard and enjoy more sunlight near the big oak and the boulders.


We got rid of old paint, oil cans, and batteries at the Vista household hazardous waste collection center. They were not exactly thrilled to see how much stuff we had... but they took it anyhow.





Now the question is what to do with all the shoes?