Hello everyone--good news in the fire containment! Thank goodness.

Could we head over to the Phase Seven I created? I am having trouble loading this Phase Sux, likely due to the number of entries. thank you!

~☆♡☆~Hello, all!~☆♡☆~
The fire is much better now! They have it 60% contained, instead of 40% ....the last fire scare, about 6 years ago, really gave me a certain ease of getting my place worked on after knowing how i could have lost everything in a fire..i hope to get that again this time...ha ha...it does make one evaluate what is really important!!! ~☆♡☆~I am soooo grateful & thankful to God & all the fire workers!!!~☆♡☆~ YEA!!! ~♡~♡~♡~♡~♡~♡~♡~♡~♡~♡~♡~♡~♡~♡~

Anony, glad to see you! How's everything going?

Tillie, ouch, that sounds painful! Rest and recover! If you like it, eat some fresh pineapple, the bromelain enzyme in it is good for our aches and pains. 🙂 And take some anti-inflammatory like an NSAID if you can, and get plenty of protein to help your muscles rebuild. These are things that have helped me after my surgery or at other times when I've had injuries or overuse.

Porter - if you like to write, you may enjoy participating in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). They have a "Camp" month in July, and April which is just wrapping up. Their main event is in November. The original goal was writing 50,000 word novel in the 30 days of November - that's their main event month. But there are other options - "NaNo Rebels" and such for those who want to set their own goals, write something different than a novel, etc. It can be a lot of fun. I don't follow the traditional way but I enjoy their forums.

Cold, wet, rainy here in central KS - but I'm thankful I don't live in the western part of the state - they're getting SNOW! Blech! Should be better by Monday. Plenty of decluttering I can do in my own room. I also want to do something fun like work on art, and I think I've been a good girl decluttering this past week, and can reward myself a little with that privilege. 😉

YEA!!! I got on the full website!
Im still dealing with the huge, nearby fire threat. Im using my get-unstuck-mode for my overwhelmedness with this. Im methodically packing up important stuff, trying to plan. Nobody around me seems afraid, but ive got to catch the feral cats, if it gets to that point of seriousness.

Sunny day here - and I spent it indoors decluttering! LOL! I really don't mind as long as I'm on a roll.I just couldn't stand the state of my bed for another minute. So I got a card table, set it up in the tiny hallway, and took books, papers, my box of vitamins, and other assorted items there.

Then I changed the sheets. Long overdue, that. I took off the dust ruffle. I don't like dust ruffles anymore. To me they are unnecessary and get in the way, things fall down and the dust ruffle makes it harder to look for something that falls between bed and wall. So it's going to live in the laundry bag indefinitely. Hopefully my roommate won't notice, or if she does, will be okay with that.

Went through the stuff on the card table, filled two plastic grocery bags with papers I had set aside to read (skimmed through them). Out they went. Put some books temporarily in my van. I don't like doing that, but hope that when I get more of the room decluttered they can come back in.

So it's better - there's always more to do, of course, to make a tiny room liveable when you have STUFF. Getting rid of STUFF is one way, but a lot of it is stuff I use regularly. I'll have to do the best I can till I can get my own place. Must keep at the storage unit, too - hope to get out there by next week or sooner.

But at least my bed feels more like a bed again. Not 100% how I'd like, but more room for me in it, and any kitties who want to snooze awhile.

Time for chillin' now.

Indeed Tillie.
Especially to little ones.

Try the yoga sleeping pose.
Hope you feel better soon.

On last break.
18 tasks in three days. 6 each day
2 after breakfast
2 after lunch
2 before bed.

If I get that done I'll be on a cloud

Hi Everybody 🙂

Just a drive by post.
Had an accident and managed to pull some muscles around my ribs.
Can't get comfortable, can't sleep, can't think...
Living with clutter is very dangerous. 🙁

Changing my subjects.
For a creative outlet I write outlines, for TV shows. It's just a hobby, more like a pastime.

I've been writing a storyline about a hoarder and have written. 6 episodic timelines everyone I tell about it are nice and not too disinterested. I struggle with writing well. My grammar and style make the reading poor and sometimes unclear.
However I can spend hours and days on a subject ,and is more interesting to me than watching TV.

My new subject is more about creating a new, monster. Well not not monsterly.
In the vain of character development as mummy, werewolf, vampire, zombie.
A sleeper. These characters are dangerous when they sleep, mostly set in the future.
A person takes a pill.
That person listens to a hypnotic media as fall sleep, as they slip into trance, an media input allows for an interface from the internet into sleep conscious. So instead of being totally unconscious like sleep. The are dreaming in way that is like an extremely vivid dream. They can see themselves sleeping though a video cam. But there are many other channels to observe.
So the intention is to be able to learn and experience life during the sleep period we all do. But in a semi hypnotic state instead.

As the technology expands, the sleepers start to gather In Groups, and leaders rise. The drama occurs when safeguards are not realized and hypnotic suggestion s cause people to do things of drama suggested by hackers. .
Acts of violence, of terrible.

Sleepers, they dream the internet live, but get hacked and cause calamities as hypnotic stasis and unknowing participants as secret assassins.

Thanks for the post, Porter. For me, I like to jump in and get going. It's just my stuff here, so no need to put into bins. I try like the devil to pick things up once. I do the same at work--I like to handle a problem or an issue once. Tonight I started making donation bags, I got a friend's bathrobe in a box to mail, and I gathered up stray garbage. I am reasonably good st laundry, clean bed linens, clean dishes and terrible at the rest of it. I need to dust and vacuum. I'm getting much better at putting things away. Thanks for the encouragement.

For years I had a storage space/was so glad to clean it out and get rid of everything. I need to keep moving in that direction. Just keep reducing.

When I panic , I plan.
Panic is a response.
It can be motivating if channeled into that.

It like happens so gradually I don't notice how it looks to others. Then a snapshot or photo is taken and I'm shocked . How is it I don't see it until it becomes overwhelming. And then I can barley deal with it . The oly way I've adapted is to develop clearing skills. No matter how it is to be sorted . The sorting is an obstacle to me . So I've adapted to usurp the sorting . Put sorting into its own area. Put the unsorted into large tubs with lids , photograph them. And try to have a sorting day at least 2 times per month. But the rest of the month. I need to focus on 1 room at a time. Clear it's entire space, repair it, clean it , and start over. I've begun to realize , I can ask for help. So the rooms where helpers can come and feel comfortable taking a break makes a huge difference in how long they stay , and how often the return.

Helpers need a clean place to use the restroom . So I keep it at absolute minimal . This makes it easier for me to clean before any helpers arrive.

The kitchen is second . Because helpers. Usually become disgusted if a kitchen is unkept. Or place where they may become sick.

Third is the room where they first come inside.
It helps to have a staging area.
So trash goes outside , but keeps stay inside and helpers can start helping with a stage area. Without having to dig through to create one.

Anxiety is normal. Feeling overwhelmed is normal.
Unable to overcome what triggers the overwhelming anxiety? What can I say. I struggle. So I help from people whom don't struggle.

I used to have cats, I loved them like children, some like friends. My favorite was a black cat named Felix. An alpha male. He was a very strong cat, that often chased dogs and was so mean , he tried to intimidate everything in his environment.
I also practiced throwing him onto and into trees.
I essence attacked in my own yard. I trained the cat to jump into my arms when I would make certain Whistles. One time I threw into the face of an attacker. And the cat hung on like when I threw him onto tree. I was able to get away. Get a weapon , and the attacker fled. What a cat right?
I fed him well. And would often wait for me where I park my car. I would open the window , he would climb in and fall asleep in my arms. He loved me , and I loved him. I miss him , and never been more fond of other cats. He lived 14 years before he became deaf and died from a car.
I returned him to his sleep place where I first found home and planted a black roses bush.

He always Sat upon the highest points of all my piles.

I'm panicking over the number of things on my house. I want to reduce by 20%. I'm going to keep track here. It's all driving me crazy. 20%. Starts today.

Hello!

Cm I have three clutter piles in my house. One is next to my bookshelves and kitty dies head over there fur a little exploring. I have one in the space that separates my living room from my "library". Kitty hides around there. And I have one on my coffee table. She will climb there but hates the noise of things falling.

I didn't realize I had clutter piles. I had started to write that I only have one, then I saw the other two. I shall work on one today--thank you for the eye opener. I didn't know I needed that.

Keep up the good work, CM! Glad things are moved MF in the right direction.

Hi everyone

Tatoulia, glad you took that rest - and no need to feel guilty for it. You've had a lot on your plate.

Porter, interesting changes. It might be good for everybody to have some bonding time. Hope it all goes well.

This week has turned out more committed and busy than I anticipated. I had two mornings of sitting for my elderly lady friend, and today I'm going to a satellite town where another friend lives whom I don't get the chance to visit as often as I'd like due to the distance - gasoline + agoraphobia. But now I have $$ for a little gasoline, and in the daytime the agro won't be an issue.

Yesterday I did more laundry - mainly prewashing of quilting fabric. Not to worry, it wasn't a huge amount, I'm committed to not hoarding fabric anymore! It's for a couple of quilts I already have planned. Then I ironed the pieces dry. Since the gas leak, there remains a little follow-up work to be done with the heater, so we haven't been running it, and April's been chilly - so it felt good to iron. And that way I won't put it off till it does get to be hot weather.

Also some is for the current quilt in progress. It's been slow going on that one but I hope it'll pick up.

I've got several decluttering and organizing projects going at the same time, in my ADD way, but that means I never get bored. If I get tired of one thing I can switch to something else.

Question for all the kitty lovers - do your cats enjoy climbing on your clutter piles as if they were brave explorers near the summit of Mt. Everest? LOL! When I get the piles gone, the poor kitties will have a boring life!

cats climb on my piles

Hmm
My wife is fed up with the property management blaming the property owner. She's decided to move , move with me.
I didn't expect this.
Further my daughter will be staying with us for the first year of high school.
I guess my wife got offended at something. Her sister said. And has changed her mind about sending her to her anytime soon.

My yard looks good. My porch a friendly shady place. Just packing everything up because we will be moving by June 1st. I'll miss the big house, but not its problems.

Hello Everyone!

I actually cleaned my bathroom sink the other night. It looks so nice to have a clean sink and vanity. If I stay off the internet I have unlimited time.

Last night after work I went to bed. I just caught up on my sleep. I don't know why I do that but I am so refreshed today. If I limit that to once a week I'll forgive myself for it.

Today I'm working from home. Gray raw tainiy day, which I actually enjoy.

Tillie I am going to use this slight car incident as a wake up call to clean out the trunk for once and for all. I went to the car two days ago and it started without any problem. I'll go to my garage today--I'll be able to tell by the way that it is parked if my neighbor had been using it. I hope so and I hope she hasn't had any problems with it. Actually I'll be seeing her tonight so I can find out then.

Have a good day, everyone. Tillie please remember to rest your body. You need to take good care of yourself.

Sorry for not editing.

This is a post of what I sometimes type but rarely actually post. Just sharing , what I do sometimes is type these posts but then save them into archives rarely reread.
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Better today.
I'm covered with poison Ivy but the yard is city compliant.

In parts of the world where women have very little resources and are alone for a million different reasons. Rammed earth is a growning concept for wall building .
But it is prone to cracking and earthquake vulnerable.
Rammed earth is simply my creative outlet.

Being adhd. I absolutely need. ,no , require creative outlet. True or not I am much more settled with something to pour my internal thought energy Into. Rather than obsessing over things I can't Control.
In north America housing has be one so expensive that it is impossible to pay off most 30 year mortgages even if wages are double minimum wage.

So my interest is in relevant market.
Second is global climate change.

Cars are not the problem . It is residential heating and cooling of homes that is driving co2 emissions.

Stick built homes cut up the forests furthering the problems. And 38% of wood built homes are destroyed by fire or termites and floods.

As learned more about rammed earth . I see it as the only permanent solution. To global climate change. Well if built as self-sufficient .

This become somewhat complicated, but is still explained in layman's terms.

Extracting hydrogen from urine , and burning g. hydrogen bubbler that heats water that lumping through a mass wall.
Additionally the heated water is pumped through the floors and ceilings .

In this way heating and cooling pollution and costs would be eliminated from global climate change equation .

Further in my own version .
If the roofing harvests rain water into on site cisterns. Then drinking water and farming water can be equated to fit the size of the family living in the home to match. If plants like tomato, onion,blueberries,broccoli,carrots apples and peaches . Are grown on surrounding property, and I a top level green house ,instead of tar roof.
Most homes built this way could grow more calories than required by the family that lives there.

My creative outlet leads me to .
Rammed earth first floor.
Foamcore second floor and roof.
Off grid electrical,
Rain Water harvesting. Gravity feed cistern.
Large swimming pool as a water reserve for farming.
Solar Hydrogen harvesting from urine before processing out a septic system.

Utilizing fish and rabbit for meat. And many other choices like frog legs, chickens, and insect proteins. The goal would not just be to survive on site . It to create enough energy surplus to in turn create products for market.

In this model.
I would have a couple .
Put in 16 hours a week apiece.
8 hours during the week, 8 hours on the weekend.
If they work on the house for ten years it would be a ten person home in ten years.

If they start out with a mortgage on the property, a professionally built foundation and septic system. Plus a storage container to start out in as a shelter to begin. They should be able to pay off that mortgage in ten years also.

So. I'm not sure if I've posted this fantasy in a similar way before or not. I'm just letting you all know what I think about when I'm not drawn to distraction.
It only makes sense to me if it something real. Some proven method already be utilized by someone today right now.

I can post video links where each of these issues are being lived out. My creative outlet is find way in a model to bring them all together.

Please forgive.
I watched a video about some self proclaimed hippies in The 1960s. Who tried to build homes in the ground and grow their own food. Most began to hate the farming life.

However I think this could become less of chore with the new mobile apps technology.

Not only would the there prompts to what should be planted weeded tended, and harvested an cooked or sold. But also to monitor water needs, disease and insect detection, in ways never dreamed of by the hippie generation.

I thank no this would be a much better approach to mono cultures . Where the humans poop and urine are used in ways that reward the earth and enrich it. For instance extracting hydrogen from urea.
And composting feces and mixed with other organics. And dumped into 100-200 foot deep holes as fruit and nut tree root nutrient wells.

I write these posts all the time , but rarely lost them as they are basically jibberish. I though I would just post it anyway to open .

Good Morning Everybody 🙂

Hi Tatoulia 🙂
Hope your car is OK or if it needs something it's something cheap & easy to fix.
Having the car gives you more freedom to do all the things you want to do. 🙂

Hi Porter 🙂
I like to learn more ways that we all can live better though technology.
Different areas of the earth have different conditions and needs & local resources.
But there always seems to be a way that people can live in harmony in their environments.

Hi CriticalMass 🙂
So nice your home is back to being easily useable! 😀
Happy the flea stuff arrived and nobody is itchy any more.
Yesterday I watched a movie "Cell" based on a Stephen King story. The ending was disturbing ;/

Hi Anonymoniker 🙂
I don't know nothin about cell phones.
Can you delete history and cookies?
Can you defrag them?
WTG! for working on the spider corner!
Maybe when that area is all cleared out, spraying a bug barrier around the edges would help keep them from returning.

Yesterday started out nice enough.
But as the day progressed it slowly went down hill.
Getting old is no fun...

Hello,

I'm being my usual night owl self, Wanted to fill in from my earlier drive by post.

Saturday morning our repair guy called and said he could come - and he made it! What this means is that things that were in the "wrong" rooms could go back into their correct rooms, and people and animals could also go back to sleeping in their proper places.

For me it meant the laundry room is more easily accessible. So today I did a big whites load and a big darks load. I have a smaller load of each for sometime later in the week. Depends on which day is best. We have more rain due possibly as early as tomorrow, and the latter part of the week. I'd like to have a storage unit day, but catching up here at home is important too.

Yesterday was absolutely gorgeous. I weeded a fair amount in the garden beds. Today along with the laundry I sorted some fabrics for my quilt. I hope to move ahead on the next stage of it soon. And I am finding and bringing together photos in preparation for scanning. There's a lot more in terms of paperwork to go through, scan, enter, or just shred, depending. But I'm seeing progress.

One of the rabbits has fleas really bad, and our shipment of medicine came so we treated the cats and bunnies. The dog has had his. Finished up the day with the DVD of the movie "Passengers." Fun.

Porter I had to Google rammed earth - interesting. I enjoy reading about various unconventional ways of building, living off the grid, and related subjects. Don't know if I'll get a chance to do any myself, but who knows. It's fascinating and gutsy.

Emotional roller coaster of a day.
On the inside, my thoughts drift towards thecmodel homes. After many years obsessing over the same design, I've become more Interested in the equipment , technique, and simplicity.
Rammed earth is terribly labor intensive.
So I believe I may turn to the mechanical design of a rammed earth wall builder than turn corners .
I have just enough training to make both mechanical and architectural concepts and designs and turn them into drawn plans.

Sorry to give the ideas such a place.
The issue for rammed earth is that the inner walls dry at different rates as the outer walls so you cracks.

The design I have is to include pipes inside the walls as they are built .so they can be built in the cold north, but also have an inner cage frame.
This then goes on to be the way the house is heated and cooled. So it needs to be built with machine.
The current rammed earth building have very complicated forms that are extremely technical.

My Concept, is make it as simple as loading the clay,fiber,and cement in on end of the machine along with long roll of pipe. And the machine just follows a path as it rolls along compressing it all into an 8 foot wall.
After the walls are hardened from dying. The are eventually covered in aluminium panels that be rolled out as 100 foot long strips 8 feet wide.

The concept is that there are so few parts. That a child could do it. And it would last 500 years , so there would be time to make fantastic impovments off the ages . Clay is as cheap as dirt.

It's how its insulated that makes it become expensive. But even that has been resolved with foamcore metal panels spanning 56 feet costing $200

So what I see is it's all there it just has to put together.

Well I'll talk more about it some other Monday.

I'm just resting for now. .

I dusted the bed tables and lamps. That made me feel a lot better. I'm going to do a few more things then go to bed.

Hope everyone is well.

Garbage out and cat box clean. Worked a lot on laundry today and did a little picking up while at mom's today. I have so much to do here.

Will unload dishwasher and finish putting away laundry. I worked on my dresser today too. So little bits of progress here and there.

It's been a good day.
Too tired to do anything but sleep before work.
I'm having inner thigh pain and I need to rest.

Will drive by tomorrow.
I like the confidants angle Tillie.

Happy Sunday! Great news, Tillie & CM!

I am finishing up mom's laundry then will take to her place to hang it. Beautiful sunny day but might be a bit cool--hard to tell from inside. Have window open for kitty.

Dishes done, clean sheets on bed, doing a little picking up. Need to wash down jacket so I can donate along with my boots. Car giving me a little trouble yesterday. Hope it was just a hiccup. If it requires repair, I'll likely just get rid of it. I'm pretty close to going car-less. My biggest concern is I have a neighborhood mom who uses my car to take her son to the bus stop everyday. She lives across the street from my parking garage and it makes her life so much easier. That, and I like to get my brother out each week.

Hi CriticalMass 🙂
YIPPPPEEEEE!!!!!
So happy you and the cats all have your home back! 😀

Thank you (((HUGS)))
You all have no idea how much you help me.
You are the only people that I ever share my fears with.
You all give me courage and never judge or minimize even the most illogical fears & worries.
((((((((HUGS))))))))

😀

Drive by, more later but just had to say...

Oh happy day - our repairs are done! Now we can put the house back together!

Tillie, as a fellow agoraphobic, I feel ya! I hope everything goes swimmingly but as a backup plan here's an idea: think of all of us here who are rooting for you! 🙂 🙂 🙂

Thank you Porter 😀

Today went very well.
Not only did I donate some of my time
I also had the car trunk full of linens & bedding type stuff to give to the organization for the cat/kitten foster parents.
Also, a bag of stuff for their yard sale coming up next month.
Still wish I had the room to foster kittens & expectant mama cats.
To me, that would be so much fun! 😀
I really enjoyed those 3 kittens I had for a little while.

Hope you have a good time tille
Best wishes

Good Morning Everybody 🙂

7:00am here and I am getting ready to go.
Tossed & turned all night so I am tired but I won't allow myself to chicken out.

Have a wonderful Saturday! 😀

Good Morning Everybody 🙂

Hi Tatoulia 🙂
I admire you for all you do for your family (((hugs)))

Hi Porter 🙂
My mouse/desert pack rat population is outside all around the property.
Over the years I have found and covered/blocked every entrance hole I could find.
I also keep ALL food in mouse proof containers and trash is taken out daily.
Now a mouse still sneaks in about every five years or so.
The mice outside have attracted Gopher snakes that now live here year round.
Unfortunately, they hibernate during Winter and the mouse/rat population grows.
But in the warmer months they do a fantastic job of eating lots of the rodents.
I also have a Great Horned Owl that dines here regularly every night.
He is HUGE and likes to sit on the fence totally ignoring me, like I don't even exist.

Hi Joan 🙂
Wishing you all the best in recovering your health (((hug)))

Hi CriticalMass 🙂
WAY TO GO!!! Fantastic what you have been getting done at the storage! 😀
Keep chipping away at it when time, weather and getting there allow and before you know it, it will be conquered. 😀

Because tomorrow I won't be here, today I will tidy up the house, do a bit of laundry then wash my hair and get ready for my big day Saturday at the "home & garden" show.
I have been slowly over the years forcing myself to overcome my agoraphobia quite successfully but I still have a blood chilling fear of humans.
I know that most will not verbally or physically attack me but it's that one in a hundred that I fear running into.
There will be a LOT of people attending this event.
Wish me luck 😉