When I heard the forecast a few days ago, I decided that I needed to take today off and take the chance to get outside for a while.

So I took a vacation day and this morning when Ryan was ready to sleep for a while we set the baby monitor up in the garage, made sure it was getting a signal, and proceeded to sort through things.

It's still pretty cluttered, but much less so than it was. I was able to rig my counter-weight for the garage door again, and we also moved some plywood sheets from the van side — where it was intruding on exit space for the sliding door — to the Aveo side, which has a little more room there.

We also brought some things indoors that we should have come indoors long ago, including Melody's movie posters, her samurai sword, my old construx toys, some pictures, and other assorted items. We still have about as much left as we took in, but we made serious dent in the clutter out there.

Alice had fun, too. She played with her tricycle and in the (muddy) yard with her lawn mower toy. I think we were all happy to get outside some.