So I thought I'd do some archival work around here.  In the basement we have eighteen shelves for books, sixteen of which are filled.  I had a system in place for organizing them by category, but it kinda fell apart over time.   Meanwhile, one of our cats got sick with cancer, although we didn't know that exactly at the time.  All we knew is he hid ( Read more... )

Today's helpful hint: when you've kept a half a bag of cornbread stuffing so long the teeny bugs that were eating it have died, it's time to throw it out.  *Snerk ( Read more... )

I have four wire baskets on tracks in the cupboard above our in-wall oven.  There I store dried beans, pasta, mushrooms, and grains.  Every now and then, it's nice to pull each of the baskets, empty them, and refill them while organizing the contents better than before ( Read more... )

I thought a good thing to do on a home-with-a-boo-boo day would be to backup my photos.  Photoshop has been nagging me about this for a while, and it seemed like an ideal activity for when I can't do much.  This entails, though, organizing my pictures first because once they're backed up on discs or a remote hard drive, they're harder to access.  ( Read more... )

Organizing the house moved another step forward Wednesday.  I took a heavy wire rack out of the attempted garage sale, put it in my room to replace a chest of drawers in there.  That chest we moved into Ray's closet to replace one in there.  The second chest, an antique I inherited from my mother, I moved out to the dining/sitting room.  When the ( Read more... )

I woke up today with a terrible upset stomach.  Between one thing and another, I didn't really get out of bed until 12:30.  However, I put the rest of the day to good use.  Weeks back, I bought a bunch of plastic totes of various sizes, hoping to better organize my studio area.  Today I pulled out the three drawers of the bathroom cabinet, carried ( Read more... )

As I understand a number of people have done, I'm applying the principles of simplification at home.  Bought a whole bunch of plastic totes of various sizes and shapes, plus labels to help identify what's gonna be in them ( Read more... )

All the rain we've had has been really hard on more than just us humans.  Because the plants which produce seeds have been slow in ripening, animals like goldfinches, which eat the seeds, are getting hungry.  One day earlier this week I saw several finches sitting on my echinacea, picking at the flowers which are no where near ripe.  So out of ( Read more... )