An echo? Now that is extreme de-cluttering!

Rain is predicted today, though so far it has only drizzled. Good time to put out fertilizer, so I took a 5 pound bag of dry molasses (fertilizer for organic gardeners) that has been on the shelf by the door for too long and sprinkled it around a few of the beds and gardens I've been working turning over and planting. It may drive the fire ants crazy, or it may push them away, like my organic guru Howard Garrett claims. The yard smells like molasses now.

The room my daughter used (my future guest room) has a closet that has long been plagued by eau-de-cat-pee, and I finally found the source, a rolling backpack set to the side that one of my annoying cats hit some time back. I had to move it away from everything else and go back later to see if that was it, because those of you with cats know that after a little while everything smells like cat pee when you're looking for it.

I decided to wash all of the lower closet rack of clothes (proximity to the pack being one reason). She has been away at school for two years and hasn't worn any of this in ages, but needs a few sets of clothes here when visiting. I'll encourage her to donate a lot next time she visits, and we'll compress this down to a narrow part of the rack so I can put some seasonal things in here.

My office floor has a pretty little throw rug in the middle now, no longer the boxes of paper and books. Nice! (No echo, though.)

SRS (who smells kind of like maple syrup after the molasses episode)