Your project is a great one, and will be valuable to yourself and your family. Do you have any living relative who can identify people in the old pictures? That's the greatest tragedy when generations die out and wonderful photos rich in family history are left with familar but unnamed faces staring back at you from a century before. People love to carp about old people and their stories being longwinded or boring, but without them, those faces just become gene pools. It's ironic that so many people have no time for story telling but then run off to watch miniseries or cinema or videos.
To answer your question, I'm in the midst of prepping my house to repair several things, finish some painting, and whatnot so I can sell and get out of Ala-damn-bama. My projects range from powerwashing my driveway to cleaning/reparing/painting gutters on a 2-story house, to replacing rotten drip boards to addressing landscape corrections.
About a month ago, I drove to Chattanooga to get a bagger for my new mower, a 2nd hand find that saved about half the cost, even after gasoline to fetch it. And a month before that, I did the same, but to Nashville, to get a long takeup reel for my solar pool cover, as it was hard to handle or store without one. And about the same time, I found a 2nd-hand grand piano spyder dolly for my piano in the basement, and it was only 1/4 of what a new one costs. So, my bargain hunting is fairly termed a hobby.
Nothing really creative of late, although I did till up large patches of moss and bare spots near and under trees in my front lawn about two weeks ago and seeded them with tall fescue and a sun-and-shade mix. They have filled in nicely with luch green fur lush enough to top a troll doll's head. As much as I mostly see the shortcomings of my house and property, I do enjoy walking out to the road and looking back at all the improved curb appeal from a) changing the paint color of the siding and trim, b) adding needed foundation evergreen shrubs, c) planting hostas and rudbeckias and turtleheads and ferns and hydrangeas, and d) hanging a wooden swing that I rehabbed by painting it watermelon pastels.
After I leave here, I hope to have a house with few necessary repairs and get back to a) entertaining, and b) working on my own family history and photos, doing exactly what you are.
