Randy was off working all day today, so I took advantage of the situation to clean up a couple of messes, the kind of messes where you have to make a worse mess first in order to clean up the mess.
First, I cleaned the dining room. Doesn't sound like that big a deal, but in our house, by virtue of its geography, the dining room is the center of all activity. It always collects the most cat fur and gets the messiest.
Second was straightening up all the New House stuff. We have files, books, blueprints, samples, you name it. The stuff had gotten messed up and spread around to the point that I no longer could put my hands on particular items. I was looking for the window catalog the other day and had not the foggiest idea where it was. So now I've gone through all the files and recycled a lot of stuff that is no longer relevant (I once had nearly 20 kitchen cabinet catalogs, for example), gotten things re-organized, and everything now is all in one place, on the House Table, as I call it, which is in a corner of the living room.
Third, I cleaned out the kitchen junk drawer. Every kitchen has one. It's where pencils, scissors, take-out menus and other such paraphenalia collect. Over time the collection gets a bit TOO large. Like the New House stuff, I could no longer find anything in the drawer and could hardly even close it half the time. I took everything out, got rid of half of it, and reorganized the rest. Yippee!!
My friends Barry and Leabah are out of town for a couple of days, so I'll be pet-sitting their 2 pot-bellied pigs. When I went there for lunch, I met Barry's 2 daughters. Cool, since I've heard so much about them. At piggy dinner time, it was just me and the pigs and Leabah's mom Elsie and her caretaker.
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