I'm back

My last post was several months ago, but I'm back. My monthly goal is to write two notes in this blog each month. I learned a long time ago that if I write it down it will happen. There is something about a list a goals that motivates me. That is if the list is not too long and if the list hasn't filled up with busy work.

One of my other goals this week was to create a nook in the garage. I now have my desk set up and the bookshelf is mounted on the wall. Over half my books are out of the totes and I have thinned the collection, with 3 boxes of books and DVDs dropped off at the local library. The books will go into their quarterly sale. The DVDs may be used to replace damaged ones in their collection.

Years ago my dad made a camping box for the car. It is 24 inches wide, 21 inches tall and 10 inches deep. The front opens down and creates a table. Dad used it until he was able to graduate to a pickup and camper. Mom the took the box and made it into a writing box.

When she passed away it was one of the things I wanted. It has traveled with me for the past 20 years. In San Luis Obispo it held up one end of the desk I had made out of an old door. It has been stored in a garage at times. In Gladstone I built a frame that turned it into a stand up desk. In Sandy it sat on a beautiful old wooden card table in the corner of my room. Today it is the corner of the garage in my nook.

It brings back memories of my parents and sometime about it brings out the creativity. I haven't changed it and it holds my Morning Pages Journals and other keepsakes. Maybe I will take a picture and add it to this post.

The real message here today is that I'm back.