Chaos Transformed

 We finished our summer cleans at our respective schools on Thursday! YAY!!! With the time off that we have had, we have really focused our time and energy on organizing the shop. 

First, we built floor-to-ceiling shelves in the corner designed to store totes filled with things we use only annually like Christmas and camping things. Those shelves filled up fast when we loaded them!!! 

Next, we built shelves and drawers under the counter. It was hard to see the difference that day, especially with everything still in the middle but we sorted through about 5 bins and removed them from the building. Loading the shelves and drawers opened up space for the next steps.

Saturday we repurposed the old lockers, making them a shelf for the jugs of oil and other liquids cars snack on. We ripped the wood table from Claresholm nearly in half and mounted it to the wall placing the narrower piece above it for a shelf. Dad cut off the end of the table and hinged it onto the side so he could fold it up out of the way, and not lose the counter space. Very clever.

The tool board is filling in as well.,, more evidence of the order that is slowly manifesting through our efforts to tame the chaos of so much. 

Our days have been all of 12 hours, plus at the same time, life is still happening. In the house, we've juiced a pile of apples, harvested vegetables for supper, and done all the usual things. I have also been pouring resin.

You know, sometimes life can feel like that full shed with the pressures and demands of our schedules and responsibilities pressing on us, demanding our time and attention. In my experience, without restoring order, progress cannot happen. We started with a bench, clearing surfaces, and designating categories. It progressed with the building of shelves and drawers and filling them, then sorting more things and repeating the process. But order is coming and it is like that in our lives. When we take care of the things that we maybe don't want to face or do, it opens up space to do the things we really love. That is the end goal for Dad's shop, to give him a space where he can do the things he really loves, and when he can do those things, it will bless not only his life but many other lives as well. Chaos, transformed into order, brings joy.