The final weeks of summer are dwindling down and pretty soon kids will be heading back to school. Hard to believe, isn’t it? As summer winds down, so am I, I think. My “To-Do” list is much, much shorter than I started out with this year and it feels really, really good.
It is official! I am now in winter preparedness mode. Last week I stopped in at the feed store and picked up a couple bags of layer pellets to put away in the garage with the upcoming winter in mind. Over the next few months I’ll be gathering up pet food and supplies to keep everyone well fed and cared for when the temperatures dip. As for me, I am in pretty good shape so my list is actually rather short with mainly a small list of non food items to work on.
It was another warm weekend so I stayed inside most of the time moving at a much slower pace. I call it puttering, starting each day slowly while sipping my morning coffee before getting started. I did my daily ten minutes of housekeeping, a load of laundry, took care of my animals, watered my flowers and plum tree, pulled some weeds and relaxed. Sunday I took my mid morning coffee outside and sat on the front porch enjoying my yard and all of the hard work I’ve put into it the past three summers. It made me feel really good.
After work on Monday I got the Subaru back from my mechanic and she is running top notch. No more vibration in the driveline. I also got the A/C serviced. It blows nice and cold now. My order for filters arrived prior to me getting the car back and I was able to get those installed right after I brought her home.
After work on Tuesday I drove the Subaru to Interstate Battery and had them install a brand new battery in the car. The one already in there was dated from 2018 and my mechanic told me it was reading low on the tester. I was planning to take care of that next month, but decided to go ahead and do it now so I wouldn’t end up getting stranded somewhere. Now I am winter ready and good to go.
I am really keeping up on my garage
So nice having it organized and makes it a breeze to work on projects
Wednesday I took the day off from any projects and instead picked up a friend of mine and took him out to lunch. We spent the afternoon visiting and getting caught up on each other’s lives. It was also his first time seeing the Subaru and he heartily approved of my purchase. I went home afterward and played in the backyard with the kitties and the chickens. It was a really nice and relaxing day.
Before
Thursday morning I got up feeling extra motivated. I had one final project I wanted to tackle on the car before winter hit and that was to address the very rusty receiver hitch. Last week I bought a can of rust reformer and a wire wheel for my drill. With those things as well as my putty knife and a flat blade screwdriver I was able to get all of the flaky rust scraped off that hitch and clean it up. After masking off the back bumper I sprayed the hitch thoroughly with the rust reformer and now it is not only better protected from further damage, but it looks like new.
After
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| So much better! 😍 I'm hoping to get a bike rack so I need this to be functional |
While I was at it I also addressed the battery hold down. I had noticed the hold down had a touch of rust on it after the technician cleaned it while installing the new battery. He did a great job cleaning up the entire battery bay so it was an easy fix for me to spray the hold down with some of the rust reformer. It is still in pretty good shape so hopefully this will help it continue to stay that way and last a bit longer.
Before 
After! 😘
With that I put my tools away and dragged my sweaty self back inside the house for ice water and a well earned sit down with my feet up and a cat in my lap. Another productive week and many more check marks on my ever diminishing “to-do” list. I was thrilled. How was your week? Is the weather still super hot where you are?
