Dh came in for dinner, but very slowly so that I got grumpy from waiting. Then he accidentally spilled curried beet sauce on my tablecloth. The tablecloth is in the wash now, but honestly, it has stains already and is due to be tiedyed.

I am torn between feeling like I had a good day and the sense that nothing I did today is really going to last - it will all need to be done over again and again.

Lila, that is a lot of work! I hope you have a good sense of satisfaction.

Yay for your son!

I was in the garden, or the shower, or cooking..

I picked the dry beans and some more yellow beans, gathered a few tomatoes, pulled some weeds, and picked a batch of beets. Then I cleaned up the kitchen and took a shower. I put on comfy clothes that make me feel domestic and prepped all the beet greens for dinner. I made brown rice and an Indian dish that used MY onions, MY garlic, MY jalapeño, and MY cream. It occurs to me I could grow cumin seed. But the salt, pepper, brown sugar and curry powder will continue to be store bought. (My friend grew pepper one year and said it was a pain and very not worth it.)

Then I rang the dinner bell, but Dh is working on the new tractor and apparently couldn't hear it. In about two minutes I'm going to eat without him. He's having fun.

post 4 -

I wiped the cabbage and peach juice off the stove and one counter, and took everything out of the produce bins in the fridge. Tossed what was bad, washed out the drawers. Trimmed more cilantro and pput it in a vase of water to freshen. Picked out the oldest big carrots, trimmed and peeled them, and stuck them in the freezer (my dogs love these for treats). Put the good produce back into the clean drawers.

On the stove I have a few kiwi fruit, apricots, and peaches that I can't tell if they're still good. They LOOK good, but have been in there for many weeks. Before I decide, I'll cut one of each open and try them to see if they're still fine.

I did not finish the rest of the fridge but I am exhausted! Resting.

post 3 - where are you guys?? SubC??

I made a cabbage salad out of the smallest head of cabbage and ate a big bowl of it, and am enjoying my peach iced tea. I got my son to take the kitchen trash out for me.

My kitchen is a wreck of peach and cabbage but I am about to go in there and wipe things down and sort the fridge. Someone is coming to pick up some produce so I'll put it on the porch for them.

post 2 today -

I opened the 4 boxes and sorted out all the produce. First I cleared off half the kitchen table, where the peaches were, and wiped it down to put produce on.

I took the bin of peaches to the sink, sorted out all the bad ones, then took the heavily bruised, overripe and soft ones and washed them, peeled them and started cutting them into a big pot. I mixed in a little lemon juice and froze an ice cube tray of those for smoothies. Then I added sugar to the rest and cooked them down into preserves. I just finished, and put them into two mason jars to store in the fridge and use. I saved out some of the syrup and am making peach iced tea with it, yum. I also ate a peach or two and my son ate two. I still have about 15 that were not very bruised, on the counter for eating.

Then I took out all the cabbages from the boxes, peeled off any dried out/bad outer leaves, and put the cabbages on the table. Then I took several heads of lettuce, peeled off any bad leaves, trimmed the stem, and put those on the table. Sorted all the parsley and cilantro, trimmed the ends and put them in cups of water to freshen up.

Sorted out any bad tomatoes, and put the rest in a box on the table.

Sorted out the onions and sweet potatoes, put them on the table.

Asked a neighbor and my other son if they want some of this produce, and posted some on facebook.

I have not gone through the fridge. There is more produce in there that needs to be either used, processed, given away or tossed. Yes I have lots, no I can't possibly eat it all. I feel guilty. I will get it dealt with so the guilt goes away.

I am resting now, and then will get in the fridge and see what I find.

Oh! And I talked to my other son and he has a special tool for cutting drywall that is on the wall, and he said he will come over and cut that mold section out for me! I am so relived.

"do anything." Good advice. The produce situation is bothering me the most. I am so blessed to have friends with gardens, but the abundance has overcome me a bit. So, first I will open the four boxes of produce someone brought a few days ago and see what is in there. Sort/put away what I can (cleaning out the fridge in the process). Decide what I would like to give away and ask some people if they want some.

After that, I will try and process what needs to be processed first, which is peaches, and will see what seems to be next.

The boxes and cabbages and bins sit there mocking me with their abundance, and I feel terribly guilty if they are wasted, so this is what I will work on right now. I am wishing for a few ears of fresh corn!

CM, I just realized that I never responded to the loss of your friend. I had, but then part of my post got deleted and I didn't realize how much when I retyped. I am very sorry. Even when a loss is expected, it is still just as much a loss. I hope both you and Lila can find comfort. Losing the people we care about us the hardest thing there is.

Lila, keep working on protecting your time from work, and honestly, do anything. Anything is progress.

If you have a freezer, you can just wash, core, peel and freeze the peaches, and make jam or cobbler or anything later.

You can also chop the onions and freeze them for cooking, or sauté them and freeze them that way ready to add to things when you cook.

I have washed two loads of laundry, dried one, made two batches of vanilla ice cream mix (one is cooling) washed and trimmed up some yellow beans and sliced a few tomatoes, and unloaded, loaded and run the dishwasher.

I also realized I am missing free mulch day, which is kind of a problem, but also, I have so much else I need to do..

Lila, I am thinking about the end of the day problem. I'm thinking maybe I will try taking a shower when I get home. If I lay out a change of clothes and leave a healthy snack in the fridge maybe I can do better.

CM, so sorry for your loss. I had a funeral yesterday and it ripped my guts open all over again. I came home and my brain was so fried (like SubC said she feels after work) that I just poured a bowl of fruity pebbles cereal and that was dinner. Then watched mindless tv. Bad habit on both counts... I will do better today.

I used to have a husband (not the current ex) who would do things like cut out the moldy drywall. When I was not married, I always had a boyfriend who could do it. This is the first extended period in my life with no one to help me and I really don't like it. It feels like another reason to sell and downsize my home, but that in itself is an overwhelming and complicated task that can't be done until and unless my separation is final.

Today is my real day off although I already have people texting me wanting to have a call or work on things. I might get back to them this afternoon, but I want my morning to myself.

Goals for today:
Do something with the peaches (your ideas, SubC, reminded me of freezer jam and maybe I could try that for some of them. I do have a freezer.)
Make some kind of cabbage salad and start eating it, and clean out the small fridge downstairs where I can keep two of the cabbages cold so they last longer
Find someone who would like a cabbage and some onions, maybe the neighbor who I gave tomatoes to last week

My house is such a mess omg. I cannot prioritize. The storage stuff still outside, the mold!! the rain coming, the kitchen... ahhhh.

Good late, lazy morning!

So wonderful to see all of you here! (Still missing Road! Still interested in Jules.)

Cutting out sheetrock is very easy - mask, gloves, utility knife, trash can. Replacing sheetrock is hard.

Lila, I'm not sure what to tell you about the food. None of that is shelf stable. You need a freezer or dehydrator, or you need to can. The easiest thing would be to find somebody who cans and give them the peaches for halves. Onions can be chopped and frozen or dried. (If it's very hot and not too humid there, you can dry them on a screen in your car or garage - but you car or garage will smell like onion for a long time.

Oh! Actually, if it's very hot and not humid there, you can try pureeing the peaches (bruises and all), cooking them down into a thick sauce and drying them on parchment paper on a cookie tray to make fruit leather - Park the car in the sun and crack the windows. Only try a little bit the first time though - I don't know your climate and it could go badly. You can do the same thing in an open oven, but it heats up your house - so it's a winter thing.

There are some good Indian recipes that use cabbage and lentils - maybe search for something you like if that interests you?

Tatoulia, I did enjoy the compliment, and we have a number of very good teachers who could each be "the best" for a particular kid - including me, but our high school English teacher is in a class all by herself. It's not just that she is fantastic at teaching English or loves her job. She is single, she rents a room from a friend, she has no pets and as far as we know no romantic relationships. These kids are her life.

CM, I have a meter square, cm gridded commercial paper cutting table with a blade arm in my basement. I understand completely.

I am really struggling with the executive function issues. I wasted my whole evening yesterday watching videos. I don't have time for this. The problem is that I get home and my brain is too cooked from school to do anything. I know what I should be doing, and there are tasks like picking beans that are no more mentally challenging than videos, but I sit down on the couch because I am tired, and then I get a snack because I am hungry and Dh isn't here and I don't have the energy to make dinner, and then I just stay there because I don't have the mental and emotional bandwidth to get myself out to the garden.

I have got to find a way to make it easier to make good decisions in the evening before this becomes a deeper groove or I will never stop falling into it.

Hello ladies

It's been quite a week. My friend died Wednesday morning. And the Queen yesterday, which is now going to be connected in my mind. It's also been 25 years since Princess Diana died and that was in this time of the year too, and Mother Teresa. Plus the anniversary of 9/11 this weekend. A lot of things to ponder. And I haven't heard yet when my friend's funeral will be. I'm guessing next week.

Tatoulia I shred my address from papers and mail too. I remember when I used to go to the local clutter club support group, there was lively debate over whether this was necessary. I don't think either side managed to change the other's mind, lol.

You are tending more and more towards minimalism in the sense of simplicity and not owning an item like a shredder if you can find a way not to. I've always been the type, since I was first out in the workforce and could buy things, to think how cool it was to own my own equipment, from stapler to 3 hole punch, filing cabinets, and eventually things like a guillotine paper cutter, a binding machine... at one point I even had a medium sized copy machine that a business was going to throw out. It had some little part broken and I thought I could fix it but that proved to be more trouble than it was worth. I ended up taking the whole thing to be recycled.

Many years ago, too, my ex boyfriend was going through some sort of existential crisis I suppose. This was all around the time we were breaking up. He sold his house because he didn't like having a mortgage and being tied down. Any wonder why marriage, home, kids, and so on were not attractive to such a man? 🙄 Anyway, he was deciding to go very minimalist, and getting rid of his possessions, and making plans to leave for a second master's degree in a different state, and to sell his car.

In hindsight I should've seen it coming when he moved into the house but bought hardly any furniture, only one chair for himself, no couch where we could even sit together, and in the winter wouldn't even turn the thermostat up to make me comfortable. I felt frozen out in more ways than one.

Why I'm infodumping all of this is that it pertains to my relationship with stuff over the years. After the breakup, I bought many things out of a sense of NOT wanting to experience that feeling of miserliness and deprivation, and the rejection by him of all things family and domestic oriented.

And now, with the passage of time, of course, I have come to reckon with the contradictory trends within myself. I feel drawn towards minimalism - but it must be MY minimalism, completely disassociated from his closed off style. It needs to feel fresh and warm and creatively life affirming. Or else obviously I'll hate it and rebel against it.

I'm working on figuring all this out! 😅 I am looking with a more critical eye at the equipment I've thought I needed to have my own versions of, and whether I could get by without some of it, based on frequency of use, availability of public versions (such as copy machines, haha). Some things have gotten smaller and more compact in 30-plus years too. That helps. Then you factor in Covid and the way it affected being able to access facilities such as the library, and that can make a person want to go into zombie apocalypse survival mode and hang onto things to feel self sufficient. Talk about conflicting forces!

Whoa, I didn't set out to ramble so much but oh well. I think I'll wrap this up for tonight and I'm sure I'll be back fairly soon to chat more.

Lila, I'm glad you are leaning towards cutting out the sheetrock, definitely wear a protective mask when you do. And I hope your laptop situation resolves satisfactorily and with no data loss or frustrations. I haven't bought my new one yet because there's been so much going on. But hopefully soon. I still have some things to back up and directories to purge junk files from so I can be puttering with that in the meantime.

SubC, glad school seems to be off to a good start.

Hi everyone.

SubC I shred everything with my name. Habit. Not sure of the reason. Really no reason. I just do. Any box in the recycling (although I receive minimal packages) I take the labels off and shred. Again just to do it. I don't know if it's privacy or not having people identify my trash with me or just what but I do it. Othing private about my address. It's all over the internet and my deed is in my name not a trust. But still I shred. Habit over 30 years in the making.

Lila take good care of yourself. And SubC you are the best teacher. Enjoy the compliment

Thanks SubC, I think I should cut it out too. I don't really know how. I will look on youtube and then if it's not too beyond me, and I have the tools, I will do it. But it needs to be done asap and I am so tired and need a break.

What would you do with:

1) a large box of peaches, lots overripe and/or bruised? No way I can eat them all. I don't can anymore. Please give me the simplest or best way I can save them for something.

2) 6 heads of cabbage. I don't even know what to do with these as much as I enjoy eating cole slaw, or steamed cabbage. I am vegetarian so no bacon.

3) several boxes of onions. I want to use these but I really don't have a cool area in my house where they would keep in this summer heat.

If anyone (SubC, you are good at this kind of thing) can tell me how to not let this stuff go to waste I would appreciate it!

Hi Lila!

I would cut the Sheetrock out. We painted bleached and then Kilz over some when we moved in here and it slowly bled out.

Nice job o the trash and the kitchen!

Don't forget to rest.

Today a middle school boy told me "you are my favorite teacher in this whole school!" And I said "that's because I get to teach the super fun classes." And he said "also because you are the best teacher." He's wrong - but he's too young for High school English and I'll take the win as a matter of opinion on some of the others.

It's looking like a good year.

Finished my taping, didn't get to the cupboard. Left school at 4:33.

SubC, so sorry about the glass. I know that scenario all too well, and wouldn't wish it on anyone, even once.

CM, it's so hard when our friends pass. Sad for us, left behind.

There IS black mold at the base of the sheetrock where it got wet.(colored black, don't know if that makes it 'black mold')? I sprayed bleach on it. I don't know if I need to do anything else - have someone cut it out? spray it again? advice helpful, I am broke but do want to be careful of our health.

Tatoulia, the pyrex is just the thick, plain glass that is round and has a plastic lid. I liked it because I don't like to microwave things in plastic. I have all my pyrex boxed up because of Teen's glass-throwing rages, so this one must have been several years old.

I was pretty sick SubC and then tried to go back to work Tues-Thurs, and am now exhausted. Home for the day, then a funeral, very sad. I miss posting here and hope to have more time now.

I am feeling a bit overwhelmed, very behind from being sick. I got my new planner out and worked on it, and am 80% done transferring info and stuff from the old planner. I hope to finish that today.

My laptop is not working so today's goal is to back up the files and then mail it off for warranty repair. I have been trying to back it up all morning with poor luck. It freezes. Will try again. Sometimes if I shut it down and leave it for awhile, it will work for a bit when I turn it back on. So annoying.

Also my kitchen got really awful, so this morning I unloaded the dishwasher, loaded it, it is running, and I washed out the gross sinks. There are still cookie sheets and frying pans in the sink to wash by hand, but I rinsed them and moved them from one side to the other so I could wash out the nasty sinks. I will wash them later.

I also went out and finished filling the second garbage bin and put both out to the road to be picked up today. Once they are empty I probably can almost fill one of them again, already, with stuff from the water heater room that did not fit in the full garbage bins. I am deciding what to do about the mold before I put the rest of the tools and things back in there, but, it is going to rain in 2 days so I have to get it done fast.

I am supposed to have "off" today but I really have to make some calls and emails for work. Maybe an hour's worth of work.

Teen has a music lesson they begged for this afternoon but may be refusing to go. I would like to go speak with the manager and see if there is a way to work this out. They want me to pay for 3 months up front but that is a lot of money I don't have, especially if they have an autistic meltdown and won't even go.

We also have the bug people coming to spray for wasps today. I am deathly allergic, literally, so we have to spray for them when they start getting in the eaves.

I am tired already. Ok, going to try to back up the laptop again. I hope to come and serial post about all the great progress I make today.

Good morning all!

Tatoulia,

Thank you for coming by!

Do you shred everything with your address on it?

Isn't your address a matter of public record? I remember when I was a kid looking up my friend's addresses in the phone book - you just had to know their dad's name.

You can go to my county website, type in my name, and get my address, my property tax records, and pictures of my yard. If you know my address (like from seeing my mailbox on the road) you can get my name and those other things.

Last day of the first week of school. Hopefully I will meet the rest of my new kids today.

I forgot how tired I get. I keep trying to plan to do something in the evening, but then I just watch videos. Very bad habit. I really need to not establish that. I also have not yet managed to leave school by 4:30. (My last class ends at 3:30 each day) this is something I definitely need to work on. I am working on getting the kids to do as much cleanup as possible.

My house is getting more disordered, but I have managed to keep up with the trash. I am also keeping up with my classroom. Today at lunch I expect to finish the last big job on my summer prep list (securing some small sorting shelves to their supports with double sided tape so they don't come loose and dump things.) and after that I'm going to try to spend ten or 15 minutes a day cleaning out and organizing that last cabinet.

I wish you guys would post more. I miss you. Hopefully you are all busy in a good way and not staying away because you are overwhelmed or discouraged.

My paper shredder has been on its last legs for a while. It jams all the time. So I've made the decision to recycle what parts of it I can, and I may not replace it. I'm thinking I'll bring stuff to work and use our manual shredder. We also have bins to for commercial shredding but I do not want to cost the company money. If this idea doesn't work out, I'll buy a new shredder

All I have to do is tear my address out of any envelope and bring that to work. I'm in the office two days each week, which ought to be enough. I don't get bank statements or anything like that. I think I can make this work. One less thing in my home.

Very stressful couple of days. Going to shower soon.

Forgot to add - definitely had an increase in paper load yesterday, but it is all in active use. I hope to purge more paper this weekend when I do further planning.

Good morning!

Tatoulia, Dd2 loves her new city/geography/weather and her new job. Dating seems to be going well. She doesn't call much. 🙂 (she's in her mid 20's, she's supposed to be too busy for her parents!)

I left my classroom in good order yesterday. I will try to do it again. I dropped off the recycling before school. The class I'm taking went well. I didn't try to throw in the studio, I just worked on decorating a rather involved piece and relaxed. I will need to throw more this weekend.

I did get a load of dishes run yesterday, and Dh apparently got take out for dinner, so the house is a little bit better.

Two of my former students came by- a college sophomore whose little sister was attending for her first day, and one who graduated in 22. They both looked happy.

It was good to see my kids again. My seniors are going to be a mix of dragging their feet and tugging at the kite string.

I'm already seeing that I still have an hours of sleep challenge.

Must go!

Sorry I missed that. Kudos to your daughter! How is your other daughter settling in?

Thanks CM. School went pretty well. Too tired and to late for details.

Glad you got the debit card fixed.

Tatoulia, it was my Dd - his mommy built him the castle. And an airplane made from a box and tinfoil and cardboard tubes. She gets her imagination from me and her skills from Dh.

Lila, what does the Pyrex dish look like? Is it clear glass or is it milk glass with a pattern?

Yes I love Pyrex. I don't collect it, per se. I only have a couple of dishes and I use them. Same holds true for my coffee mugs. I use them. Every single day.

Of course your story grossed me out if I think of it.

SubC good job coping with the wine and glass. Never an easy moment, is there? I love what your husband made for your grandson! WOW.

Cm I'm sorry for the emotional upheaval.

Cleaners came today, instead of Wednesday, and not a moment too soon. So I have a nice clean bed for tonight.

I voted in our primary today. Both of the district attorney candidates are problematic and so I left it blank.

Very quick

Lila, do take precautions in case there is mold. Recently read a very sad cautionary tale of some folks with toxic mold issues. It can even cause madness in addition to the physical effects.

SubC I hope you have the best school year ever. The page seems to be loading okay - I always have to fiddle with it on my tablet but then it resizes itself. At first it comes up in very tiny print.

Hi Tatoulia, Road, and Jules. Hope all is well with you.

I finally got my new debit card activated; had to have the bank help.

My 98 year old lady from church is in her final days on this earth. 😥 I know she will be going to a better place but it still feels sad. Especially since the Covid years and crazy stressful events made it hard to visit her.

I'm just trying to keep my head above water with these emotional things. Still big changes in daily life coming soon, and now that I have the debit card working I will be able to get the computer, though I may wait until after my friend's funeral to level out a bit.

Still hot weather here too. Possibly a brief cooling off on the weekend. I don't want it to go too quickly from summer to chilly fall. But the icky hot could end and that wouldn't break my heart.

Good morning.

Slept as well as could be expected, no crazy dreams to report (or any that I remember.)

Lila, I would never have guessed green bean casserole.

Did the friend come? How is the room?

I am finally starting to find my excited about school.

Last night was just really hard. I didn't need to be reminded about how far I still have to go. And the housekeeping falls apart so fast.

But I will make it through the week. And I know I will be excited when I see my kids. I'm sitting here this morning drinking my coffee with two tiny animals and a mushroom painting that have watched over me all summer and thinking about my seniors from last year and vowing to enjoy every minute with the ones I have this year, and wondering who will show up in my classroom this week to make me say "I can't retire until x graduates." And also, I am remembering that even though my home is a mess, my classroom is awesome this year! (Although I still need to organize that one cupboard..)

Ok, things to do, people to see, worlds to conquer...

This is just a wail.

Kitchen trashed, dishes backed up, school planning stuff everywhere.

I have one class that uses books and materials that are mine, so I keep them all at home. In a cupboard in the scullery.

Got everything else ready and Decided to have a glass of wine to relax me while I packed those things.

Put the wine on the edge (only available part) of the scullery counter. Turned and knocked it for a loop with a cardboard tube I was moving.

Wine and shattered - really really shattered, like splinters, glass everywhere. In a room with stuff all over the floor. An hour later the stuff is packed, the scullery floor may be safe (I keep thinking of Bean's little naked feet!) it has been picked over, wiped up, mopped, and vacuumed. I have two boxes of "check for glass" in the laundry room, three fewer cleaning rags (embedded glass splinters), and one fewer wine glass.

I am drinking my glass of wine. I have to get up for a long day in 6.5 hours.

I feel like it used to be more fun and less hard, but I honestly can't remember any more.

Dd built Bean an indoor climbing castle from scrap wood and an old bed. It's amazing. He loves it.

Ok, tomorrow is another day. And the first day of school.

So glad I could give a helpful idea, Tatoulia! Aww SubC, Bean's day is so cute to read, even when he has a tired/sad minute. I miss my Tot and hope to play with her soon!

I am so tired today! You won't believe what I found as I finished going through ex's junk from that storage room. No really. Guess. You could guess all day and never guess what was in the old tattered box full of leaves, spiders, under the belt sander and empty wrappers. It was a container of leftover green bean casserole!!! I kid you not, a Pyrex glass dish with green bean casserole inside, it had to be from ten years ago or something!!!!! It smelled like hell. But I could identify the french cut green beans, nearly decayed to oblivion, and some barely recognizable crispy onions on top. So revolting!!!! WHY it was in the storage room with the tools, we'll never know. I will chalk that one up with the empty OJ bottle I found in his den that said "PEE" on it.

Good afternoon!

Lila, you are doing great!

Tatoulua, I love that you learned something new and helpful today.

Bean and I did not bake today because the storm turned my power off for 4 hours.

He had a little bit of a hard morning. Usually he lights up when I come in to get him in the morning, but today he said "Daddy get (bean) up." I said "Daddy is at Daddy's house." And his little lip quivered, but he countered with "Momma get (bean) up." I had to say "Momma is at Daddy's house too. Can grammie get (bean)up?" He looked sad for a minute, but finally agreed "Grammie get (bean) up, then play."

I don't think he liked that the house was dark from the storm and the power outage either, but he did get to "help move big trees" with the tractor after the sun finally came out. He might not have slept well too, because after a bit he said "tractor tired. Papa put tractor away so tractor can rest. Tractor need lunch." So I gave him lunch and now he is napping.

I am tired too, but I am fleshing out lesson plans and double checking materials lists. Back to it!

Sending you love and support, Lila.

Oh my goodness, I feel like I failed a really big test. I have paint cans to get rid of but didn't want to waste a bunch of cat litter, esp since it's been hard to find at the stores. I COULD BE USING USED CAT LITTER I never even thought of that.

Good morning, SubC. Good job on the dishes, and the recycling! Celebrate every step.

My son washed off all the paint cans. One was big with only a little paint in it, so we put the cat's dirty litter in it and let it set so we can throw it out. That's the rules here. Dried out, or cat litter soaked and dried, can go in the trash. Then I took a photo of the other 10-12 cans of paint, partly full, and put it for free. There are a few interested so they are in the driveway.

This morning in the cool weather, I went out and sorted a few more boxes from the storage room. And buckets. Apparently ex has a habit: any time he repairs ANYTHING, he saves all the old parts - thus the old toilet seat that was in there. I found an old wax ring from the toilet, old door knobs that don't work so he replaced, many many other things like old pieces of pipes or drywall, and literally 30 or more old sprinkler heads from the yard that were replaced over the last 20 years. It is so much I think both big trash cans are going to be filled.

I moved a few more of ex's things into his room as well.

This morning a friend is coming, I think, to work on the room and I just now realized he has to turn off the water. And the water switch is in that filthy bathroom downstairs! The one ex never cleaned. The one Teen has thrown every used towel, paper towel, piece of trash in. I could shovel it. I am horrified but, what better motivation? So now I am going down there and putting all the towels in the wash, rest of stuff in trash, and then will start cleaning like your list said SubC. I'm going back to look at the steps now.

P.S.

I think I will order the new big daddy sheep, and maybe also the mommy sheep if he is still playing with the animals a lot in a week (right now they are one of his favorites), but I will try to sort out a box of other toys and find something that can go.

Good morning!

I forgot to thank Jules for the introduction. Pleased to see you here!

Tatoulia, I'm glad you got your nap.

Lila, I'm sure you are being very sensible about the process, I just wondered. I will look forward to the departure of the couch with you. For now we will just enjoy the cleared out, soon to be repaired storage room!

It is raining very hard here. Mr. kitty has not shown up, so he must be hiding in the barn. I set my alarm this morning because I need to get my body back on my school schedule, but I did not want to get up when it went off. I stayed up too late last night because Bean's parents stayed pretty long after he was in bed and then I had to do chores, put away the food from the dehydrator, and clean up some of the dishes (as much as would fit in the dishwasher)

I must be making progress on me, because I cared about the dishes enough to at least get the dishwasher loaded and started before I went to bed. I still have a messy kitchen this morning though.

I tried to work on getting my school stuff together yesterday, but all I really accomplished was recycling a few sheets of paper. Still, that is something, right?

I'm also pretty sure I am counting on getting too much done during Bean's nap and this evening after I take him home. But the first day of class is pretty routine - introductions, tour, labelling stuff, handing out clay, demo and simple project, clean up and go. I always over plan.

I cannot find my three hole punch. It has a place to go, but clearly I did not put it back the last time I used it. And now I need it. and it is probably buried in a mess somewhere.

Arg!