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Our house is also incredibly energy efficient in a lot of ways.

They’ll give you all the cheeriness they have to give either way.. See?So, if you haven’t got one already, plant yourself a lilac and enjoy all the free awesomeness for years to come.Well, it might not be the prettiest thing, but it sure makes me happy every time I see it sitting there in the corner of my mud room, all ready to help whenever needed.. We’ve had a bit of a problem since moving into this house almost two years ago.

Our garage is a disaster zone unlike you’ve ever seen.The tools and hardware and junk are all piled together in giant heaps on top of the various work benches.So finding anything is nearly impossible, if you can even get to the work benches past the bikes, several ride-on lawn mowers, stacks of flooring waiting to be installed and power tools all over the floor.

It’s bad.. There’s a little skinny hard-to-get-to cupboard in the house that I was using, but it wasn’t working out so well, and my “house tools” kept mysteriously ending up back in the garage..I found this old shoe rack in the basement, and you might have one just like it lurking around somewhere.

I put it by the door to the mudroom and now everything I need is right there waiting for me on my way outside.

The little angled shelves are perfect for grabbing whatever I need quickly and easily.. Terra cotta pots make it even easier to fill er’ up with all my gardening and quick home repair necessities..If you do something, anything, towards what you’re working on, just a tiny bit each day, you will make even more progress than you will if you do a “jump in feet first go all out Saturday afternoon then do nothing the rest of the week” kind of work session.

I dare you not to impress yourself..I guess I just forgot my own advice!.

So now the last of the harvest if coming off and we’re getting ready to till everything and start fresh next year.. Pumpkins are so rewarding even if you have ignored them all year..In an attempt to make the front of our house look somewhat less abandoned, I moved this single urn out here.