[misothere]

Heck no - I did not get the grass green "yet"! I haven't even fully mowed the lawn 'cuz mower keeps dieing on me. But hedges in front of house are trimmed now. I still need to rake & buy lawn seed & sprinklers to get grass green in front, but "baby steps" inside & outside the house right now.

My best buddy & her hubby bought me a new stove to replace the 1940's one that hasn't worked in over a year.
They wanted to give me money & I refused, so they "just showed up with the stove & helped me declutter kitchen.

Another friend & I worked 9.5 hours in humidity decluttering living room & boxing yard sale stuff up & offered to paint that room when it's time.

Both friends husbands & a son will put in a new toilet when I buy one & on same day will make a "pass thru" from kitchen to living room with a breakfast counter on kitchen side. (I don't have room in kitchen for table & it'll be my slicing dicing area & I can get 2 stools & use it for eating at too).

These friends are carpenter buddies & they'll be paid in hubby's carpentry tools for labor. I probably have most of the building materials in shed 'cuz hubby kept "every scrap" from houses he worked on.

I will need to buy new toilet & counter & pay just the son's labor for 1 day (which is a good use of ck from Soc. Sec. for spouses death). If you ever saw the show "designing on a dime" - that's what I'm about right now. Hubby's old clothes bureau will become a place to put TV on & put Video & DVD & cassette tapes in. Friend is giving me new speakers - 'cuz ours were blown.

I'll use what I have, declutter, fix the place up & make money off what I can sell (or trade for labor) to survive til' probate paperwork comes thru'.

Plus this all keeps me busy with less time to be depressed (which usually happens when I go to bed & that's why it's almost 2:30AM & I'm still online - avoiding depression)!