I took the stuff to donate (documented on tally thread)

Lila mentioned there that she is worried about her garage becoming a storage unit when her family moves out. Lila, are you worried about it being a storage unit for you or for them? My basement is definitely partially a storage unit for my daughters as well as for me. My son has his own storage unit in his own basement and takes his stuff when I find it.

Other things I accomplished today:

I got feed, I ran the dishwasher, I ran and put away two loads of laundry. Load three is in a basket. Load four is in the dryer. Load five is in the washer.

I took out the compost.

I dumped the remixed school clay on to the drying board. I have to remember to take it with me tomorrow!

I worked on cleaning out the chest freezer. I am trying to use or give to the chickens one gallon or 16 lbs of stuff a day. It should be empty and ready to defrost some time in May. I need to start restocking it with ice cream and cheese before the milk gets out of hand. And maybe frozen waffles - I have a lot of eggs and they would be nice in winter.

I scheduled my farm sitter to come pick up some stuff I want to give her on Thursday. (Probably - she is a very reliable sitter, but a flakey social event.)

I also have a friend coming over on Thursday. I invited her, but I am feeling really stressed about it. I am embarrassed by my house and my barn and my garden. I can't remember the last time I had a friend over. A few people "stop by" now and then, but that doesn't count - they just come to the front door and maybe into the great room, and we talk for a short time and they get whatever they came for (coffee, eggs, a book.) and leave. Also, they are people who know me well. This friend has never been here and wants to see everything and we've only gotten together once - at her house - more than a year ago - since our kids were young.

Ok, I have a few more things I want to do before bedtime. The art show is after school tomorrow and I will get home very late.

Happy Earth Day!!

Good morning!

Happy day after earth day!

My day was so full!

Yesterday I taught, Dh picked me up at school and we went for a tour of the (newish) public radio station building, he dropped me back and we each drove home to find Bean's family having a (planned) cookout in our yard.

Dd and dsil went home after they put the boys to bed and I was in bed shortly after!

Dd had been to the thrift store and bought "gifties" as she puts it, I am up three to record.

The boys are spending the day and being picked up at 5, then I need to price and pack everything for my Saturday sale because I go right after school on Friday to set up.

Sunday I plan to sleep late and be tired again. Please remind me that it is ok. I am feeling so frustrated about my lack of progress everywhere. But the main point is to enjoy my life. If I am not going to cut down work/activities/ time with people, I am going to have to accept that there will be several days a month when I am just too tired to do anything.

I think my hand is maybe a little better - I rested it a lot on Tuesday - and got nothing accomplished because of that.

hi SubC and messi! I am glad you both had a good time at your concerts. I am still trucking along...

My shelf was cracked!!!!! I was sooo annoyed. However they immediately sent me a new one, which is now sitting in a box on the table like deja vu, with me hoping it is not broken when I open it!

So today my goals are: open that box and hopefully install my new shelf, finish washing the bottom part of the fridge (bottom shelf and 2 bins), laundry, vacuum. I also need to get things ready for my trip to the uk next week. I have a dog walker who will be coming in the house daily, so I need to clean up the immediate area, which includes the doom counter. Wish me luck.

Hope you both have a good and productive day! TotsDad is bringing the trailer today to take loads to the dump, finally! So I am looking around thinking about what can go that would not fit in the trash bin.

Good evening!

Lila, good for you cleaning out your refrigerator. I hope your shelf stays up!

I did not work in the garden yesterday. I did do some pottery, but not as much as I would have liked. I also went to the feed store.

Another big project was helping Dh move the playset from out by the pond where we moved it when our kids were tweens back to the yard by the house so the boys can play on it with no/minimal supervision as they grow. Bean will be very excited tomorrow.

Today I went to the studio and finished my glazing from my last class and dropped six things for firing for next weekend. That was as far as I got. I do have one other thing already fired. Hopefully I can finish more of what I started, but I will have to fire it myself.

I dropped off an old towel (it's a standing request) at the studio, but I brought home a candlestick I had commissioned from another potter ages ago, so that's a wash.

I also stopped at the thrift store, where I bought new shoes, a bag of switch covers, and a soft, summer weight flat sheet. I need to thin out my mix and match sheets, but I'm not there yet, so I will just count it in for now. I'm not counting the switch covers, because I am going to use some of them to replace old discolored/cracked ones and then redonate the bag.

Tomorrow I have the boys again.

I feel like I had a productive weekend because I got some things done, but also I now own more stuff and my house is still a mess.

Hello. It feels like instant summer here in the midwest. (and me with my spring cleaning not done, lol) Last week temperatures to freeze the buds off the trees and this week temps in the 80s. I was hoping to get the lawns mowed today but it did not happen. There is a lot that is not happening. I think I have spring fever, because I am not getting much done. The longer daylight time is helping, especially giving more times to walk dogs (I have some issues with walks in the dark, pro and con) but I am not taking enough advantage of the light.

Lila, your refrigerator work inspired me and I did some cooking and cleaning out and took a load to the compost drop. congrats and thank you.

Sub C, you always have so much going on. I hope you had fun with the boys! I hope your hand is doing better...

Ok, it's late. I'm going to work on retiring sooner. more later...

Good morning!

Hi Messi! Good job on the compost!

I also took out the compost yesterday. Today I need to take trash and recycling.

I had fun with the boys on Monday. They enjoyed the playset! Buddy loves to climb. Bean helped me put away the Easter decorations - except the things I put on the dining porch and never actually set out. They are still in a basket on the table. He enjoyed the "rabbit hunt"

The dining porch has become a disaster again. Along with the counter of doom.

My hand is not at all better, but I did manage to clean up the living/dining/kitchen area yesterday and catch up on dishes and laundry. Folding laundry is particularly hard on my hand. I told Dh I may need him to do it for a while.

I found two things I could get rid of while I was cleaning up.

I also made some good choices about exercise and nutrition yesterday. I have been letting my self care slide along with my home care (actual self care, like vegetables and brushing your teeth, not new age self-care). The longer, sunnier days are helping. Sleep is still a challenge.

Six more weeks of school! I need to get ready for today.

Happy Friday!

SubC, you are having so much fun with the boys. They will have wonderful memories with you! Messi, good job on YOUR work with the food/fridge/cooking, too.

I have been working long hours but the new fridge shelf has arrived and is in a box on my table! Today I will put it into the fridge. It just occurred to me that it could be cracked or broken in transit - let's hope it is perfect. I still need to do that very bottom shelf... the one with the produce drawers. Then it will be totally done. I did the whole freezer on top of the fridge as well and it is neat and tidy.

Today I have a partial day off so I am going to vacuum, brush dogs, and clean the kitchen. I doubt there will be time for more than that. I am working tomorrow as well for my event this weekend. I am taking Monday off so can rest and do things around the house then.

So glad for the nice weather! Hoping to start working on the yard soon. I hope you both have a beautiful day!

Good morning,

Happy Saturday!

Lila, I hope your shelf was perfect!

I am up early for a Saturday because I have a very full day. I have to get to the studio early for an all day raku firing activity, and Dh is picking me up for a concert. (I have to change at the studio.) I'll be out really late. Hopefully I don't fall asleep at the concert!

My plan for tomorrow is "sleep late, be tired, do a load of laundry". Anything else will be bonus. I'm going to start milking the goat on Monday. - the boys will be on vacation with their parents, so I don't have them until Thursday this week. I am so grateful to have them be such a big part of my life!

I tried to work on my sheets on Thursday this week, but either I already did and forgot, or I hid them from myself somewhere. The clearing out has really slowed to a trickle. Meanwhile, the shopping continues, although I am paying attention to my budget. I need to update both threads.

I have an appointment to drop things off at the arts and crafts reuse store in ten days, and I accidentally invited an old friend over on the 30th. I mean, I knew I was inviting her over, and I would like to see her again, but I just did it because I got caught up in the moment and then I kind of panicked because I'm actually not sure she has ever been to my house, and if she has it was close to twenty years ago, when we all had busy kids and messy houses, and I'm afraid of what she will think.

But that is a problem for future me. Today me is going to fire pottery with friends and listen to music with my husband.

Good morning, good afternoon! It is sunny on this Monday morning. If it stays sunny and the lawn dries, maybe I will get to mowing.

Lila, does your shelf fit? I hope your Monday goes well. I need to do some work on my refrigerator today, and I need to get a shelf for the refrigerator at work. Your work is a good reminder.

I had a bust of a weekend in regard to cleaning. When I am rushing off to work, with everything I see around the house I think, "OH, I wish i had a moment now to do that," but I don't get to much of it when I come home. My Saturday was similar to yours, SubC, in that I went to work, got home in time to take the dogs out briefly, change clothes and drive off to a piano concert. The concert was amazing! and it took some time to slow down from it. I went to bed really late, so on Sunday I was toast... that took a while to pop out of the toaster.

SubC, I hope you enjoyed your Saturday and the music you went to. I hope you enjoyed your Sunday. Happy Monday and happy goating.

Good afternoon!

Messi, I'm glad you enjoyed your concert. Mine was also very good! And I had a great day with my friends firing raku.

As predicted, I was very tired and overstimulated from people on Sunday, but I did wash and dry and put away a load of laundry.

But where I was able to look forward and grant myself grace when I was doing well earlier in the week, when I got to the actual day I just felt lazy and incompetent and like I was wasting my day and should be able to do better. And I cried. Dh was really good about being supportive, but it is just a hard thing for me to manage. When I am worn down it seems like all I can see is the bad stuff.

Today I have loaded two bins worth of stuff from the basement into my car (this is not new stuff, it is the stuff I have been counting out). Plus a tower of stacking drawers that was taller than my head, which I emptied. Some of the emptying was putting things into other spaces I have created, but some was trash, recycling, or craft donate. I am not counting the little bits and pieces of craft donate as outs just like I don't count the little packages of lego as in. I was going to take it all today, but I think I will go tomorrow morning instead. Maybe I will find more stuff to take.

I also bought a doll. I was watching it for a long time, and the auction expired. And then the seller relisted and I was torn because it is an artist that I have wanted for a long time but gave up looking for because they were always too expensive. And the new price was lower than I have ever seen on one, but still high and I thought "if it would just come down 10%, I think I would buy it." And then the seller sent me an offer for 12% off, and there were already a lot of people watching it, and the "looks today" kept going up, and I made a quick decision and spent my "allowance" for the rest of the week. He's a little wooden doll, so he won't take up a lot of space. The carving on him is beautiful - I have his "baby sister" because the baby one was all I could afford when I discovered these years ago.

After I clicked "pay" I went to look at my doll cabinet. There are definitely a few more I could probably part with, but it will need to be on a feeling strong day, because the dolls have a lot of emotion tied up in them about my grandmother. I may need to FaceTime my mom for help. There is also a sunk cost issue. I don't have the energy to sell on eBay, and there isn't really a good place to take them to sell them here.

Other accomplishments today - laundry, dishes, and I moved the buck and his buddy out to the far field so momma goat and the babies could go on pasture and I can separate them tonight and milk in the morning.

Yay fresh goat milk!

Good morning!

I am getting a slow start today. It is sunny, but cold.

The boys and I had a good day yesterday and it was fun celebrating heartdaughter's birthday with her.

Bean and I planted a row of potatoes.

I have some updates on the tally and spending thread, but they are not clearing the hoard, so I will just post them there.

Today I hope to make some pottery and also make progress in the studio. I'm feeling kind of stuck again.

Hello! This post started out as good morning, but things happen, and now it is later, and things happen and I have to punt again in a few minutes, but for now - Hello!
Sounds like the holiday was a good day. Lila, I hope you had a good day. I hope you have some kind of break. I worked two shifts on Easter, but it was a good day. I work at my friends' restaurant and I love to see them and my family was not getting together, so it was a holiday with friends.

more later -

Good morning!

I've done that before with posts Messi.

Yesterday I worked in the studio making pottery until my hand hurt too much. Otherwise just trying to keep up with things.

We got an update on the lean-to and it is still a while out. Maybe summer. That gives me more time anyway.

Today is school and grocery store.

Good morning!

I had zero luck in the garage, and it was discouraging. But it was because TotsDad brought over every last thing that was still in his house (tools, furniture, etc) because it is finally done. So my garage is back to how it was before with piles to the ceiling and barely a walking path. I went through the path and looked for things to sort or donate, but his things are now in the way of most everything. So I walked out.

Today I hope to do some sorting, though. I want to look at the planters in my yard and if any are badly cracked, I will put them in the "going to the dump" pile. TotsDad is supposed to take stuff this weekend.

I got most of the basic chores done last night and this morning:
-[dishwasher unloaded and loaded and ran it (needs unloaded again)
- bathroom trash out
- dishes all washed except the crockpot which is soaking
- dirty clothes and towels in baskets (one load is in to wash this morning)

I need to vacuum, and I want to sort and clean the fridge, or at least a shelf or two.

It sounds like you had a nice Easter with the grands, SubC. Hi messi, hope to chat more soon!

Good morning!

Lila, I am sorry about your garage. It will be gone before too long though. Try to enjoy having your grands right there with you and know that the overwhelming part will be done in less than a year.

I was exhausted last night, but I didn't sleep well.

I need to go to the feed store this morning, and Dh and I have a concert tonight. In between I need to try to work on my pottery. I have to take at least ten things to be surface finished and fired when I go to the studio tomorrow. I have three ready and eight more started.

I might also spend a little time in my garden. Almost nothing has been planted this year. Part of the problem is that I absolutely cannot use a hoe until my hand heals.

Ok, late start to the day as it is, I should get moving.
Looking forward to hearing what everyone does this weekend.

Good morning SubC, messi, Tatoulia, CM, Road...

I had a very productive day yesterday. Lots of laundry, dishes, tasks. I also did check all the planters and found 2 to discard. One has a massive crack almost in half, and the other is one I just don't want anymore.

I also cleaned the top two shelves in my fridge, and realized that the top on is cracked to the point it is about to fail. I looked up whether it is under warranty (of course not) and then searched online for a new shelf that fits this model and is a good price from a reliable seller. I found one and ordered it, and in the meantime, a large tub of yogurt is in the center of the second shelf, supporting the top shelf which could fall any moment.

I got rid of any spoiled food, which thankfully was not much. Washed the 2 top shelves and put everything back neatly. The bottom shelf has dried spills on it so I will try to do that one today. I did all the door shelves last week.

This morning I sorted the top shelf of the freezer. Took everything out, found soup to thaw, jam to thaw, and brioche to snack on. Washed the top shelf and put everything back organized. I'm letting the freezer get back to its proper temperature and then I will do the bottom shelf.

I have not washed out the whole fridge in many years, so this makes me feel good, and also I can use the food I have. Will post more about that on the No Spend thread.

See you later!
cleaned the dog yard.

Good evening!

Lila, I'm sorry about the funerals.

Did you have any luck in the garage?

I have been looking for my big fat folder of stickers for a week. I wanted to give some of them to buddy in his Easter basket.

This morning I had a new idea of where to look. They weren't there, but I did find the tiles I desperately needed a month ago and then didn't get to do the project, and the missing pieces to something I wanted to donate but was waiting until I found the pieces - so that is in the donate box.

I had almost given up when I saw a clue out of the corner of my eye, and I found the stickers! Just in time.

I gave the boys their baskets after dinner and they liked them. I'm not sure bean was excited about the watercolors, but he LOVES the book. And candy is always a hit. Buddy's favorites were also a book and the m&ms. Buddy found a really cute little bunny in a giant egg at his church egg hunt this morning.

It has been a full day and I have another one tomorrow, so I am going to turn in.

Happy Eater to all!

Hello! Good evening!

SubC - You are keeping on keeping on! Sorry if it feels like slog, but you ARE doing it! Congrats on the ribbon reduction and the duplo containment!

I must have missed something, SubC. I don't know what is going on with your hand/wrist/brace. I am sorry it is going on. Also, I am interested, because I have many hand issues and some are intensifying recently. I hope things are getting better for you.

I found a discouraging issue this evening. I have not had a rodent problem for some years, but tonight I discovered one in the kitchen area, particularly in a cupboard. So, everything out of the cupboard (which is a good thing, just not conveniently timed -like it would ever be convenient, duh), gloves, mask, bleach...
I will check and work on adjacent areas tomorrow and look for entry points to seal. i feel mortified.

Good morning!
Happy April!
White rabbits for CM

Messi I live in the country. Mice are just a thing that happens. Nothing to be embarrassed about.

Mice and moths - the battle never ends. (The spiders are on my team)

Yesterday I did not keep on. I surrendered my day to a book. I read the whole thing.

My hand issue is a tendon injury. Everything I want to do makes it worse. I want it to get better, but I need to make work for my sale that is in just a few weeks. And I need to get my garden in. And I can't do those things. So I spent a perfectly gorgeous day just reading.

Today I go to work and try to do my very hands-on job with one hand. Sigh.

Birdy's Easter basket arrived and he called me and unpacked it last night. He loved everything in it, which was great.

My last (recently ordered) books arrived yesterday, and a little package of replacement +2 toys. (Also the last ordered) So I will count those in. I also got my paycheck, which was actually a little bigger than I expected (apparently I still get paid for my planning time when I am out - which is reasonable, since I still have to plan for the sub). I looked at my fixed expenses for the month, and I do still have some spending money - even after the overage last month, but I also have some variables coming up, so I am going to try to be more careful with it. I know I will also want to shop from the other vendors at my sale.

Ok, chores to do and a day to put together!

Good morning!

My goat kidded yesterday! She managed everything beautifully on her own while I was gone, and I returned to two sturdy looking kids dry, on their feet, and eating. Best of all, they are both girls! I have not been out to check on them yet this morning.

School went well yesterday, and I stopped on the way home for some groceries and more Easter basket goodies. I bought chocolate rabbits and m&ms at the grocery store and stopped at the thrift store again.

I did much better at the thrift store this time. I spent a little over $5 and got an egg shaped rooster carry container made by Lego (duplo) that will be Buddy's basket. It had a few baby Primo pieces in it as well. I also found a duck themed board book - which I had been wanting for his basket (he loves ducks) and an unopened mega pack of Melissa and Doug stickers for Bean. I will round the baskets out with some gently used hand me down pieces from the basement that are new to them.

I tried to find a little car or animal Lego set in a couple of stores on the was home to give Bean. Everything in the $5 range was character, movie, or video game themed. I bought nothing. I was overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of heavily packaged plastic junk flooding the toy aisles. Apparently the cool thing now is to buy blind packages on a theme and hope you will get something you like. We are conditioning our children to gamble.

I think I just have to go waste time in actual stores every few months to remember why I hate them.

Good morning!
SubC - how exciting about the baby goats! Wish I could see them! Great job with the Easter things. I'm off to enjoy some rain with the dogs before work. Hope everyone's day is good.

Good morning!

The baby goats are doing well.

I did some tasks yesterday that were essential but hurt my hand and then I spent far too much time binge watching a show out of frustration and to let it rest, got hooked and stayed up too late.

Today I have school.

I did find four things to add to the donate pile and catch up some on laundry and dishes.

hello SubC and messi!

Congratulations on the baby goats! So excited for you and that you got two females!

I'm sorry I have not been by to post. It has been a difficult month in a lot of ways. I think things will settle out soon. I was supposed to get my vacation today through next Sunday (except for Easter) but there is too much to do. So I am working, and my boss told me to try and take my paid 3 weeks off in a row this year to get a real break. That does sound nice, but I have to find the right time.

I am hoping my foster dog will be going to a new home soon. She is a shed factory. Also, my son and his family hopefully will move out before winter. His house is completed and will be getting rented out soon. I know he will be taking a load or two to the dump soon, so I need to look around for big things I want gone. That is a motivator.

Hope to be checking in more often and posting on the Tally.

Good morning!

Lila, I hope you get a break soon. The built in breaks and fresh starts are one of the things I love about my job.

I am struggling to get sleep. I meant to sleep in today, but I am awake. I think I need to try to get to bed earlier.

Today I need to work on pottery and also my garden. And my house is a mess. I am feeling kind of overwhelmed and the hand injury isn't helping. Besides interfering with my use of my hand, the brace is a constant distracting sensory input.

I'm just going to try to focus on cleaning up after myself and making things a little better as I go. Poco a poco (right CM?)

My boys are spending the day with their other grandmother, and then coming out here after church tomorrow to spend the night. When I take them home on Monday, we are having a birthday party for heartdaughter. That will be another late night.

I hope the shedding doggy finds a new home soon. Are you going to take a break from having a dog?

Good morning. I hope your day is restful and you can get better sleep tonight.

Yeah, I am done having foster dogs for now once this one is adopted. I would still consider a short term, like 2 or 3 day, foster, with ability to bring them back at any time. But this is pretty hard with the foster and my own dog not getting along. So although I love the foster, she needs her own family. I still will have my dog that I adopted last summer. One dog is enough.

I am going to a funeral today. It is the third one in less than two weeks. I hope that's it for awhile.

It looks nice out today, so after the funeral I plan to go into the garage and sort a bit, see if there is anything I can toss in the "going to the dump" pile. Anything that I am not keeping that is too big to fit in my car and would not be a hot item for me to sell or give away, needs to go while I have the chance to have it hauled off for free. When I think about/picture the garage, it feels overwhelming because most of the stuff in there is my son's until he moves out, so it makes it very hard to see what is mine or sort things. But I will give it a try.

I also am going to try to lose a few pounds and get back in the habit of taking a walk most days. I have been pretty sluggish lately.

See you later.

Good morning!

I am actually ready for school today! I have been out so long that it feels strange. I'm looking forward to seeing my kids again. And I have a cool new piece of pottery equipment installed in the classroom that I get to show two classes today! (The others are too young or not relevant)

Yesterday I did not go anywhere, so nothing actually left my property. However, I also did not buy anything having given myself a reality check. Today I am going to take some more trash. I am generating about twice as much trash right now, even with buddy not coming and contributing diapers this week. It isn't "new" trash though - I haven't started buying differently at the grocery store, and everything I have ordered has come in packaging that is fully recyclable - except the tape, which I can leave on the boxes even though it ends up as waste in the recycling process. It is just existing trash that has been taking up space in my life and I am realizing that I cannot rescue all of it and still live my life like a sane person. - things that just require too much time to prepare for recycling or cannot be recycled or reasonably repaired or repurposed.

One thing I am changing about the boxes - I use cardboard boxes as weed barrier in my garden. To do that, I DO have to remove all the tape. I have started recycling the boxes that have a high tape to size ratio. If I run out of cardboard, I can get more big boxes from the bin at school. At the moment, I still have a huge pile of cardboard in my studio barn.

I am also collecting some physically large pieces of trash. I am hoping that the lean-to project will come with a construction dumpster, but if not, I may have to find a friend who will put a few big bags of trash out with theirs, or arrange for a limited period of trash pick up. If I go with trash pick up, I will wait until I have several weeks worth of trash accumulated and do it when I can tackle some large, trash generating projects, because it will cost me at least $100 and be a pain to schedule. My choices here are "up to six 40 lb. cans a week, minimum 12 week contract, but sometimes we skip you for no apparent reason, and also some of your trash will end up in the yard - not our problem" or "nothing". The first option was $100 when I did it a few years ago to get rid of some construction debris. They told me they would not take construction debris, but it turned out that if you cut it up into 20 lb lots and bagged it with regular trash, they totally would. - I think they were visualizing a big pile of wood and Sheetrock.

Also if you have the trash service, you can pay ten dollars to have a large item (like a couch or shower liner) picked up - one item per week and you have to schedule it.

Ok, off to my day!

Good afternoon.

Today more of my packages came (I have a dozen little packages that are paid for and will be dribbling in over the next week or month)

+3 bibs for Buddy. His parents just let him get his clothes dirty and change him, but I am tired of scraping applesauce off of his shirt and pants when I get him down from his chair. Birdy brought two of these bibs along on his visit, and they were excellent. The three pack was a dollar less than a single bib (same bib, different store) so..

Even exchange - not broken monkey and not broken lion, +1 giraffe included in set. (We actually only had one giraffe and I think it's nice to have two of each.)

+1 indulgence for myself that I had wanted a while and watched for and found a good deal on and then there was a problem which I think was 100% the sellers fault and they didn't want to accept any responsibility or work with me or even keep their word on an agreement they made by email - which I still had in my email! And after an hour on the phone, they ended up giving me what I had asked for (which was just a 10% discount and not they pay return shipping and I get all my money back, and they get an item they have to toss or discount - which was an option I could have picked). But even though it was still an overall good deal (the discount covers resolving the problem) it left me feeling sad and tired instead of excited.

Which is another reason I shouldn't shop online, even though it is fun to get packages when they are good. I put it aside until I can feel excited again.

Anyway, +5.

Then -2 cleaning out a drawer in the basement.

Also, I had a 66 quart bin of ribbon, bows, and cord in the basement. (thank you for being a place where I can say that without being judged). I sat down with a giant plastic bag, a 16 quart bin, and the resolve to donate the bag and only fill the smaller bin. But that was too optimistic. I got sick of ribbon and filled the 16 quart bin. Not tightly though, it is definitely well fluffed. There is a lot in the donate bag, but what is left to sort would fill another 16 quart bin. Maybe on another day I can get that down by half? I'm not counting any of the ribbon as an item.

I'm also fully aware that my Dd would have tossed the whole bin of ribbon. But that is the same Dd who calls me when she needs ribbon..

I found one of the boys' toy animals in the ribbon bin - one of them must have put it in there at Christmas when I was wrapping things. Dd would say "it's almost April, and they haven't missed it. so they don't need it."

I did not mail Birdy's box today. It won't matter if it is late - his other grandmother is visiting on Easter weekend, so my box would be put aside anyway. Ddil knows I support this choice. I just didn't want to talk to any more strangers.

I'm off to putter around in the studio barn. I can't do much because my hand is still quite bad - I took the brace off to wash two dozen eggs and it was painful even though I was careful - but I'm sure I can find somewhere to feel like I am gaining ground.

Good evening.

I hope someone comes by soon.

I worked on the glaze project and put four empty pint jars and a small container in the recycling.

I have trash and recycling to drop off on the way to school tomorrow.

Good morning.

I have to clean up today because bean and a bunch of friends are coming for an egg hunt this afternoon.

I forgot the trash and recycling yesterday.

Also, I realized that I posted that I had a dozen packages coming. That was figurative. Actually there are 4. One is supposed to come today. It is another "replacement plus extras"

I know what Tatoulia would say about that. I wish she would come nudge me. I am not good at nudging myself.

I need to go to the feed store and post office this morning (still have to mail Birdy's gift.)

I was hoping the feed would stretch to next weekend. But it won't. I really overspent in March! I'm not good at moderation either.