The Kassel Family Project Life 365

Laura and her best friends walked around Hickman and found all their classes at the Hickman Student Walkaround. Sophomore year is almost here.

Well, we did a thing today. We ordered the next Kassel Family kid hauler, grocery getter, and vacation transport.

Our brand new Ford Explorer Platinum will arrive sometime in the next 8 to 12 months. Thank you to COVID for yet another odd consequence. While the cost makes my head spin, we have had our current Explorer Sport Trac for over 13 years and she is rocking nearly 225,000 miles.

So, we took the plunge and ordered exactly what we wanted. Now, we wait for her arrival.

I have been wanting to break this box down for recycling, but every time I turn around, Josefina has claimed it. Apparently, it is the “perfect” box.

Andy went to the Columbia City Council meeting this evening to show support for adding trails to the Park Sales Tax project list. PedNet led the effort with both a letter-writing campaign and lobbying in front of the Council. More than 40 people were there for this effort. It proved to be successful as all the council members were in support of adding trails to the list. They directed city staff to update the project list and bring a new list back for approval. Sometimes, even a small amount of support from individual people can make a big difference.

Over the past five years, the clothing and shoes in our closet have gotten more and more out of control. We were continuing to pile things without ever really removing anything because we had the space.

The sweaters and sweatshirts on the shelves were large piles – most of which I could not reach. Also, there were a lot of clothes that we just did not wear.

It was time to do something about it. I ordered new organizers from Amazon, and cleaned out the closet. Between Andy and me, we removed six bags of clothing and shoes.

After putting the organizers in place, the closet does not appear any less full, but all the clothes are visible. There were many clothing items that I had forgotten I had because everything was so crammed.

I will still need a stepstool to reach things on the top shelf, but piles of clothing will not fall on me anymore.

The closet is so much better and I am glad to have another project completed.

Andy, Laura, and I rode our bikes to the Columbia Farmer’s Market today. We had intended to just get soap from Battlefield Lavender, but we found several other goodies as well. It was a fun morning and we will definitely go again.

The sunset at the Station House was beautiful tonight.