Ow, ow, own, poor Marty! I'm glad you could help him. I wouldn't have know how to do that.

Saying hi to all. (((Tillie)))]

I guess I'm the last one on earth and that the zombies got all the rest of you. 🙁

OK Marty (the cat) has/had a dislocation of the wrist.
Popped back in place and he was able to put weight on it again.
I will have to keep a close watch on that.

Good morning! 😀

Another very red sunrise.
Means still a lot of forest fire smoke in the air.
No rain. 🙁

Marty (the cat) is in bed not wanting to use his game leg.
Told him to stay off it and give it a rest.
No matter where I touch his leg he says "that doesn't hurt" so must be a pulled muscle.

Anyways,
today I need to wash some dishes, water some yard plants and do a general tidying up inside.
Also on my To-Do list is take a shower. I always schedule in personal maintenance because this is important to my health and mental wellbeing. 🙂

So now, I am off the sieze the day! 🙂

((hugs))) Diane 🙂

Thanks Tillie, nice of you to cheer me on. Yes, forgot about mouse fall invasion. Good you reminded me to keep on top of it, sure don't want babies. I bought the steel wool, will put it on my list for tomorrow. bought it last week for outdoor rooms, makes more sense to use it in here under sinks, so thanks tillie for saying what you did.
Did you get any rain? Supposedly it will start here at 3am, we will see. Flash flood warnings and I haven't finished shoring up steep slope in the backyard, certainly won't be anywhere as bad as last week. The more I explored the more I found huge ruts that were made from the big storm last week, would take a lot of work to fill in and block areas. Maybe after this storm passes I can see the areas that need patching the most. Really want to focus on the inside for awhile and do some much needed maintenance, felt good to start today. Thanks tillie for all of your support and suggestions.

WOW!!!! Daine 😀
WAY TO GO!!!

You did a fantastic amount today!

The mice can feel Autumn coming on and will try to move inside where it's warm, has food and water.
NOW is the time to step up with trapping and preventing them from starting up with their Autumn & Winter babies all living with you.
I stuffed steel wool into the small holes around the plumbing pipes under the sinks and that stopped my mouse migration problems. 😉
Spiders will also start coming inside now too.

About your hamper of shoes. Out of sight/out of mind.
That happens to me too when I start moving stuff around.
Takes me a while to remember just where the heck I put stuff.
This "Old Timers Disease" makes every day a treasure hunt ;D lol

Happy your mouth is better today. 🙂

Hi Tillie, you are a ladder girl too, happy you climbed safely.
Want to hear a miracle? It is beautiful out and I worked in kitchen all morning, probably over 4 hours. I cleaned out 2 cabinets, organized stuff, washed all cabinet outside doors. Set 2 mouse traps in cabinets I cleaned, after finding several droppings, not like when I cleaned months ago, but they are back.
Cleaned all shelves on inside of refrigerator, lined shelves on door, to make it easier to clean in future. It was pretty crusty, not sure what it was in the worst shelf. Threw away expired food.
Cleaned inside of microwave, and all dog dishes and water area.
Vacuumed all dust bunnies
Washed all dishes from 2 or 3 days
Washed all water bottles
Threw away bags of expired food and all kinds of other junk. 95 gallon cart is filling up!!
Cleaned mud off front steps
Still need to do:
Organize calendar for Sept. and Oct. clinics, including contact #, address etc.
Clean small table off
File or toss 2 bins of papers and magazines on table. I am too tired right now, maybe have to wait until tomorrow.
Going to Costco tomorrow with my friend, don't need much but want to spend time with her.
What a change to work all those hours today in kitchen, still have too much stuff in kitchen, small kitchen so shows when too much stuff. Progress not perfection, proud of all that I did today.
My mouth hurts less today, hooray. Have more energy than yesterday, obviously.

HI 😀

Been having fun today doing small little projects.
Getting all caught up.
Marty (the cat) with his gimpy leg went back out after breakfast promising to stay close to home.
He did stay close, he went up on the roof.
Crying, crying, crying when he wanted to come back down.
I put up the ladder and managed to get him down without hurting him or myself. 😀
I told him to give his leg a rest but he didn't listen and now he's limping even worse.
I put him in his bed and am making him take a nap.

Have some rain clouds gathering. Still keeping my fingers crossed for rain here.

Off again to see what else I might find fun to do today. 😀

Good morning everybody 😀

Cats have been fed.
Have no "Have-Tos" to do today. 😀
All caught up with all my household tasks.

Feeling good. Got a good nights sleep.
Marty (the cat) is limping. Don't know how he hurt his front right leg. 🙁

Since I will not be tied down to any specific tasks today,
the day is filled with possibilities.
Like an adventure. ;D

Wishing you all fun adventures too. 🙂

WAY TO GO! Karl 😀
Financial clutter is important too.
So happy about the chat challenges. 🙂

I made a phone call to transfer some money, which is not actually a cleanup item, but will defer the financial catastrophe a little longer. I attended the Tuesday chat with ali and billie. During a buddy-cleanup, I tackled a smaller stack in the bedroom, and the day's mail.

Hi Diane 🙂

You accomplished a lot today. WTG! 😀
I hate yellow jackets with a passion.
We get a lot nesting in all his stuff around the yard.
I get a good feeling when I take the wasp spray around on a hunt and destroy a lot of nests. 😀
Only been stung once this year, so far. But I can still run fast when very motivated to get away. lol
Send that rain down here to me. I'm tired of eating dust.;)

Good job Tillie, busy morning for you. Guess I overdid it yesterday, I feel exhausted today and didn't do as much as I hoped. Did get another clinic scheduled, discussed things with my boss. She is so wonderful, offered me more clinics, said I would let her know. Enjoyed watering plants. Hung some pictures in walkway, not sure about them. Put a fun sign up in garage, "Busted Knuckle Garage".
Hung a big rack for tools and snow shovel. Must have done more, took all morning.
My mouth hurts today, got the blood pumping running up and down ladder today. Got the yellow jacket nests down, they keep biting me, that went well, snuck up on them this morning when they were sleeping. Two stings last night was the final straw. Didn't rain yet, plan to work inside house when it rains this week. Showered last night and slept in clean sheets, nice.
Where is everyone today? Just Tillie and I posted
so far today. Hope everyone is accomplishing what they want today.

Good morning 🙂

Diane 🙂
So very happy you are feeling better!
WAY TO GO! on all you accomplished! 😀

Karl 🙂
YEA!!!!! for tackling that pile and putting stuff away! 😀

It was still dark when I got up at 5:30 so I read internet news and drank tea till the sun came up.
Fed the cats their breakfast so the little boogers would leave me alone.

He went back to work today. YEA! 😀
So it is time for me to clean the house and get it back to normal.
He spent the 3 day weekend sitting out in his hoarded garage watching Gilligan's islands on his computer.
I went out there once to ask him to please do something for me, he didn't, but anyway I noticed this one tall stack of boxes is leaning worse than the tower of Pisa out there.
7 large cardboard boxes of LP record albums.
I said that was very dangerous and he said that he was trying to find the time to "fix that".
He never found the time.

Whatever.

Today I plan to clean the bathroom.
Sweep floors & porches.
Vacuum carpet.
Wash & sanitize litter boxes.
Clean out the fridge and wipe down the shelves.
Take a nap after lunch. 😀

So, what are you all up to today? 😀

I spent most of today at a board games event -- I haven't been able to attend one recently; I was glad for the chance. After I got back home, for a while I thought that I wouldn't get any cleaning done, but I decided that I'd better go through the stack that was blocking access to the closet. I found several shirts, and T-shirts, and a few pairs of jeans, all clean, that never got properly put away after some long-ago laundry session.

Once I had access to the closet, I put the shirts on hangers, and the jeans on stronger hangers; in the past I've kept jeans elsewhere, but there's more room for them this way. I'm holding off on the T-shirts until I figure out whether I have space in the dresser for them.

Today finally had my energy back, got alot done. Worked most of the day then realized I forgot to have fun!
Became an expert churner, then caught myself, threw a bunch of it away, filled 1 large bag of donations.
Washed 3 large pieces of art, may have to burn them.
reclaimed most of my deck that had stuff I had washed and stacked on it.
Really did get things done today, so good to feel better again. Supposed to rain hard, motivated me to get lots done outside so it wouldn't get wet.
Took clothes off line, folded, have to put away still.
The time flew by today, so good to feel good and get lots done.
Thanks for being here everyone, sure helps.

Ya'll are just so sweet 🙂
((( hugs)))

Hope everybody is doing ok today.
Remember to play, relax and think happy thoughts.

The nicest thing about our pets is that they love us unconditionally.
They don't care if we are dirty & smelly and always forgive us for everything.

It is so good to see all of you posting!

Ali, great work on the boxes! Since I don't go to chat I miss out on some updates. You're back home from recuperating at your daughter's?

Have a good Labor Day everyone!

Tillie, it's interesting that you mentioned all the people who have posted here and then stopped. The past couple days I have been rereading old posts for inspiration and advice. I wonder where they are too and how they're doing. Especially a woman named Catherine. She had good insights.

I do hope everyone who posts no matter how infrequently feels like they are an important member of the group. And that the group is always open and fluid for people who come and go. Sometimes I think wouldn't it be cool if at some point we had a gathering in real life. Karl can bring the ice cream! 🙂

Good morning 🙂

Getting some laundry washed right now.
Later today I will water some stuff out in the yard.
Otherwise not much happening around here today. 🙂
Fed the cats as always because until I do they give me no peace.;D

TTYL 🙂

YEA! 😀
WAY TO GO! Karl! 😀

It's been a good day, I guess -- I delivered the rent check, made several other stops, picked up some free ice cream, attended the Sunday chat, did a short buddy-clean, made some plans for the week. I'm setting a goal to have the bedroom completely decluttered within one week (Sep 8).

(((hugs))) 🙂

Supposed to be 93 here today which is too hot in trailer, so have both window AC on high. After took pictures down from that shelf in insulated room, I decided to finish painting the top of the wall and ceiling which they had blocked when I painted the rest of the room. I still need to patch areas with holes, bought steel wool when picked up RX Friday. I think the antibiotics are making me feel crappy again today. Took aleve again today for pain and it is taking care of it.
Friday through today I have spent more couch time than I have in months combined I think. Still got a few things done.
Not doing enough self care so made a list with the help of friend-After the dental visit very aware, went there without showering for 3 days!!! Very unlike me.
1. Brush teeth 2xday
2. Water pik after mouth heals a little more
3 10 minutes yoga a day
4. dishes daily
5. lotion and sox on heels nightly, so cracked, really hurt.
6. Shower at least every 3rd day (hope to get back to daily or every other day soon
after reading Tillies post I will add,
7. daily affirmation

Hello gals, thanks for letting us know what is going on in your life. So very sorry to hear about finding the cat today, so sad for you.
We all have down days Mare, getting on here anyway, seems to help, and makes it ok for me to have down days too. Tillie, I have lived my life thinking no one likes me or that I can't control behaviors that drive people away, self fulfilling profesy in my case. When I went to self help seminars and did affirmations, like, "I am lovable" it helped. I saw myself as fat, lazy,, and depressed so said, "I am thin, energetic, and happy". As you know our thoughts create our reality in many ways, so appreciate you saying that you also have those thoughts. On this site you have been kind, understanding, accepting, helpful and honest. As a hoarder, I think I would drop out if I relapsed and felt hopeless, or just not willing to keep moving ahead. Perhaps a 3 day weekend with a hoarder, and smoke have made you see things differently than we see you. You are very loved and appreciated on here. Hugs to you Tillie.

Roxie, I am so sorry to hear about your cat. I had the same thing happen with one of mine who was about 12 yrs old at the time. My Vet told me that audden deaths in cats is usually cardiac related. Still heartbreaking & quite a shock. Hugs & Prayers to you.

OH! Roxie 🙁

So so very sorry.

(((HUGS)))

Barb, Ali and Mare, glad to see you checking in. Thank you. You are missed when you don't show up!