Before the weather got too cold, I thought I should scratch some little jobs off my list.

The stain on our mailbox post and on the front porch support posts has faded badly. Ted and I finally drove to the home decorating store to buy stain, and then I went to work. If you look at the bottom of the mailbox post in the photo below, you can see how faded the color was before I freshened it with new stain.

The same was true of the porch posts, but they look better now. I was wearing a boot for an ankle injury, so Ted helped me by climbing the ladder to stain the high parts and I stuck to what I could reach.

Okay, the little outdoor jobs were finished, but I still had one little indoor job to do. We have a jet tub in the upstairs bathroom. Because of the extra depth of the tub and the placement of the jets, shower curtains are too long–unless you want the jets to massage the shower curtain rather than your body. That’s not a problem for me–I just cut the curtain shorter and hem it.

We had the bathroom re-painted as part of the 2023 interior update of our house, so we bought a new shower curtain for the bathroom to celebrate. The piece I cut from the bottom of the curtain was long enough to make a matching valance for the bathroom window. That piece of fabric has been waiting for me to do something with it for nearly a year, and I finally did.

Obviously, the cure for procrastination is to just do it. Now I can’t help wondering, “What took me so long?”