Spring is here!! I know 'cause I rode yesterday.

Ok, here goes. I have 2 weeks of time away from work due to "not in school" days and "spring break" and I stated I would get the house ready for putting up for sale. First off, I am now saying that was very optimistic of me. I thought I just needed to do some painting, yeah well that also includes scrubbing walls, moving things around, patching holes that renters made, and I could go on. I have had to sit around on my duff since the end of November so I am not in my best shape plus this project feels very overwhelming. So I thought for a break lets go through some boxes in the storage room and get that a bit underway. Now I have 3 partially filled containers for the girls to take and 1 for us, 1 box of garbage and a mess spilling out of storage room into our nicely freshly brand new carpeted basement. Ok not so eye pleasing especially to Phil, (I gave him the update on what I'd done that day, inside as we'd been outside until 7 pm) he said that was my ADD time oh yes did I forget to say that on giving him the tour of what was underway I stated that he could not make any comments. Yeah he broke that in the first 15 feet. When I saw that it was +16 outside I just had to go out. I loaded a trailer full of horse poo, dug the draining trench another 20 feet longer, in the horses paddock which I might add the ice is over 6, more like 8 inches deep. Groomed both horses, rode both horses up and down the lane several times, groomed Calvin. This all from 2:30 until Phil came home at 5 ish. Oh yes then Phil on coming up the yard almost got stuck in the 6 inches of ice that has turned into slush and he gets out saying we should try plowing it. I of course put my hand up for that so that Phil can fix the loaded trailer that has got its wheel stuck in a tree and I can't now lower it to rehook to the trailer 'cause it's too full. The plowing worked great. This is the first time we have, in the 6.5 years we've lived here had this kind of melt. Usually it is solid solid ice and we are axing it, salting it for a month before it gets this soft, so this is wonderful. I must also add that I made an a pretty good supper last night, wheat germ chicken, sweet potato fries and salad. Not too bad for all the stuff I got done yesterday.
So far today I have hung laundry on the line, changed our bed, made chicken, macaroni, tomato soup, salad for tonight, cleaned fridge again and a couple of cupboards. Oh yes swept off the crud that was on our bedroom deck, only small patches of ice but that helped clean it. Diva and Calvin came to help. If I wasn't fighting this damn cold I would've put the lawn chairs up there and had coffee there. I am really having a hard time getting down to the basement and painting - keep finding other smaller and easier jobs upstairs, like wiping down the leather furniture with my new leather wipes. Yes it all needs doing just putting off the big job. I decided, in bed last night, in one of the many times I woke up, that I will feel much better if I mop the laundry room and kitchen downstairs first. I know I'm also befuddled on my plan because of so much snow melting and showing all the mess we have to clean up. For instance, the gravel in front of garage and front door is covered with hair, ugh and the hay is a mess in front of the barn. Ok I'll get it done. Things could be worse, I am healthy, can walk, talk, and life is good.