2023 is behind us now.

I won’t say I accomplished everything I wanted to, but it was a good, busy year:

• One of my goals was to get the windows put in… and we did! That took the majority of our reno money for the year. And the unexpected insulation and drying up of the basement too the rest (and then some)
• When it came to the gardens, I knocked both my planned projects (creating the veg beds and my woodland garden) off my list. I also added the arbor, the garden down the other side of the walk, the garden down the side of the driveway walk, a garden down the far side of the front, and a small garden on the outside of the fence.
• I didn’t get the inside of the sun porch painted, so that’s one of my first projects for the spring.

Moving on to this new year, there are several things I’d like to accomplish:

• With the windows done, we are finally able to move on to updating the rest of the rooms in the house. Two of the easiest are my office, and Dave’s spare room (right beside my office), so we are going to tackle them. Other than moving a door and taking down part of a wall to expand my office into the current hall space, the rooms really just need new drywall and floors. In theory, we should have both done by the end of the summer.
• Dave’s garage is in desperate need new garage doors. It needed it when we bought the place, and they haven’t gotten any better.
• It’s a smaller project, but I’d like to give my front and side doors a refresh. They are nice heavy steel doors, and they are in good shape. They just need a facelift. They are currently red, and I’d like to paint them our signature green to match the rest of the white/green theme of our house.
• And as mentioned above, I need to get the inside of the sunporch painted. It could use a new floor to, but that can wait if it has to.
• For the gardens, I’m going to try to behave this year. I expanded them quite a bit last year. They will probably expand a little more (I have all those clearance plants in one of the raised beds still) but I’m not going to go too crazy. I think the focus will be on moving things around, and tweaking here and there as opposed to adding ALL THE PLANTS.
• For knitting, I am still a little sad about my dismal showing in 2023. So… the new plan is at least one project a month. That will give me 12 by the end of the year, and I think that’s a respectable, doable goal.
• For quilting… I bought A LOT of fabric in 2023!!!! So 2024 is the year to try to put a dent in that stash. As noted in my wrap up post – I have three more quilts to make for Burton, and I want to bang out a pile of baby quilts! I also have several gift quilts planned, so it’s going to be a busy quilty year!