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We have a LOT of boxes come through here. I only save a few, mainly small ones for gift-giving and two for thrift store donations and book donations to the library.

The rest are broken down IMMEDIATELY and put in the burn pile or the bigger ‘Chewy’ boxes (flattened out) I give to Beau as he puts them under his vehicles to catch/look for any leaks. Those eventually get sent to his BIG burn pile for feed bags and other ‘barn junk.’

Rule of thumb, if you want to stay AHEAD of clutter, is to deal with something ONCE and be done with it. Boxes, mail, bills...ANYTHING that comes into your house.

I keep a paper grocery bag in the pantry and any and all junk mail goes in there, as well as spent paper goods and broken down pop cardboard. I burn at least once a week. It’s allowed, here.

Clean as you go. I am aware of the concept. LOL

I'm pretty good about that when cooking and am working on the rest.

When I decide to clean up though, there's no stopping like right now.

I think I've done enough to move on to vehicles but will see what tomorrow brings. I have a feeling it's going to be more clean up. Still got some mowing I'd like to do and more "stuff" to pick up and put it in it's place, a little more of which is the dump run pile.

Nice to have the push mower running again and for some reason, the leaky radiator on the tractor is no longer leaking. Used it for light duty stuff and never lost a drop of water(should be coolant). I put stop leak in it a long time ago and it held for a while, then leaked and now, I guess some of it found and plugged the hole again. Put the grader blade on it and scraped the goat manure out of the front half of the shop/barn and later put the mower on the back and did some big mowing. Some of it was 2 feet tall and looks like it was cut for baling. I took it easy and never did more than 10 minutes and any time it wasn't actually cutting, I'd disengage the PTO and lower the RPM. It did good.

Believe it or not, the mower was made in the USA and unaffiliated with Mitsubishi. Did the US company paint it to match a Mitsubishi? Seems unlikely because there were other brands of small tractors during the early 80s. Looks like it belongs though.

Now that I have doors on both ends of the shed, I had to make something to be able to keep them open while excluding goats which I did today with a couple of chunks of cattle panel with fence staples as hinges because it fits nicely around the cattle panel wire.

I was going to rig overhead micro-sprinklers to wet the part of the tunnel I'll be covering with black poly but ran across the version that goes on an 18" stake that will do the same thing so I added back some main line, plugged unnecessary holes, used two old holes and added one hole and watered for over an hour.

Did both those things plus a little project up by the house while allowing the tractor to cool down.

I guess I did two 8-10 hour days but will be taking it easier and knocking off early tomorrow. That would be going shopping and cleaning house and eating a nice dinner.