The Storage Room

 Is a disaster!

The storage area is a large building that has two floors. Most of the downstairs is for parking cars, especially if there's a typhoon.  Part of the downstairs was changed into an office, but it isn't really usable, too hot in the summer, too cold in the winter. Then there's the upstairs, which is one big room. I've often thought it would be nice to convert it so it could be used for something, but there are massive gaps in the walls and between the walls and the roof. It has become home to many different creatures. This time of year, it's okay, but in the summer, I get very nervous about moving things about because I have no idea what is going to run out.

I haven't been upstairs in months. I think the last time was when Hannah came home to find somethings she was storing here. I went today, and it is a real mess. Part of it is things just being moved around without thought of stacking boxes or throwing out stuff that is not useful. Also, David and Mikey had to move a lot of boxes to get to the chest of drawers that I needed for my room.

This is a little video I took, it might be jumpy in places because I was tripping over stuff!

One of the biggest problems for me is the stairs to the 2nd floor. They are very steep and don't have any handrails at all.  Even when I was younger, I found the stairs challenging; now they are almost impossible. I only go upstairs if there's someone to go with me. I can't carry anything down; the person who goes up with me has to help carry stuff down. Today it was Christopher.

Looking down the stairs, scary.

I took a little video of what was once the office. It needs cleaning out as well. The doors at the end of the video are from the original house, so about 70 years old!

Then there is the outside!

Oh bother!

Christopher moved the branches that were cut down ages ago; he hopes that it'll be dry enough to burn them next week. At least where the branches were looks a lot better.

The branches were dumped here; it looks a lot better.

Looks like my "to-do" list has gotten longer!