Post D-Day (D for Daddy)

Special shout out to all the other Dad's on the list and may you have had a day that in some way epitomized your  special identity of Daddy.
I thank my wife and kiddo's for their efforts to do just that, even though my request were for nothing.
With all that we have cooking, I suggested we just give the day a pass as we needed to focus time (and money) on the move.  To that end we spent the day trying to finish up the packing.  This in itself was a bit of a chore,as the rooms left were the kids room (AHHHHH!!!) and the garage.  When all was said and done I think the garage was cleaner!  Now I know why women have so much clothing and shoes!  It's a quirk they develop from a young age!  Two girls in that room (Miranda still sleeping in Mom and Dad's room) and they have twice as much clothes as all the boys combined!  Or should I say "had"?
Speaking of the garage, went and purged once again and in the process our new buddy Dan,form the old country (New England) asked for us to give him a call when we underwent the undertaking as he is looking  to start a couple of re-furb projects and wanted to poke through the unfinished vintage rides.  He postponed his Dad day frivolity and detour for a quick visit, in his casual beach whites of all things!  Never seen someone dance over a pile of rusted metal so gingerly!  Made Gene Kelly look like a one legged man with vertigo!  He settled on two older Western Flyer's he ha s BIG plans for!  Not the least of which is some high end custom ceramic bearings.
Nice!
The organization of the garage inspired me with a brilliant idea!  And the next time I get a brilliant idea I'm taking a Bromo, some Advil and a nap!
It dawned on me that after purging all the bikes  that could just be scrapped, I was left with only about 30 vintage pieces and a couple road bikes, and instead of renting storage space (the new house has no garage) I could just move the rides to the shop.  To that end,I would in turn have to clean and purge the shop.
Lord.
That was my task for today.
What was I thinking?  I had some crazy notion that this could be accomplished in a day.
OH NO little Timmy, not so fast!
I was in the loft for 2 hours hunched over, nimbly scampering about (OK...grunting, groaning and occasionally stumbling) making room for semi-frames and half builds.  Unbelievable how much crap was up their!  Nearly 80% of about six months of "hey!  Don't need that now...throw it in the rafters!" built up up there!  As always, this quickly grew into cutting down "bent beyond repair" rims, spokes, hubs and axles. That done went on to emptying out the back room to make a makeshift temporary depository for all that will be scrap metal.  This 6X10X14 space is now all ready half full with much more to come!  Of the bikes in their prior more then half have been scrapped out.  What WAS I holding on to them for?!
Of course once this had all been accomplished Elijah and Logan brought up about half of what was in the garage that needed to be parted out.
Well with these areas now neaten, they put all the other shelves to shame.
Oh yes!  You guessed it,that's tomorrows task!  Purge through all the bins and eliminate that which is borderline or non functioning!  Which if all the trouble we have looking for a matched set of brake grips, or a derailleur with a straight cage is any indication, there should be a large amount of poundage coming out of them too!
Well, getting back to last night, as a final point of recognition as my function of a Dad seemed necessary shortly before 1 am,as we settled Miranda down to sleep, we were on our way to bed, Kaleb informed us there was "Something wrong in our bathroom!"  A mild understatement!  Seems for some unknown reason our toilet decided to vacate an excess 200 or so gallons of water.  Which meant we now had an indoor pool!
Thank god for the water suction on our upholstery cleaner!  That,a mop, just about every towel in the house,and a massive "all hands on deck" clean-up attempt!
Lucky for us their was nothing in the toilet bowl left unflushed!