It's funny--tonight I had the pit bull in to check out her summer skin allergy and drop an antihistamine pill down her throat. She managed to spit it out the first try. I wonder why she bothers? This is the same dog that will race around to the front yard to see if the pesky neighbor's cat has used the garden like a litter box so she can scarf down cat poop. The poop tastes better than the pill?

I've kept my kitchen counter clear for a couple of days, that is progress in itself, but I decided I needed a token (at least) bit of work on the storage spaces.

I took the beaucoups cloth shopping bags and backpacks down from the top shelf in the hall coat closet (not a good place to keep them because they all fall down on you when you pull one out). I also rearranged two other closets--I took a box of holiday stuff from the lowest (waist-high) shelf in the hall closet (jackets only in there, on a low rack) and moved it to the top shelf in my office closet. The resulting space at waist level in the hall is where the bags and packs are, easy to reach. And what is on the top shelf in the hall?

Games. We don't use them often but you can see two neatly stack rows of games, all ready to get out without dumping the others. We may forget they're there, but we tend to forget them anyway. I got rid of a lot of them a couple of months ago, keeping just those we play.

The games had been on a sturdy Mexican pine shelf in the living room. This bookcase is strong enough to hold a four-foot long row of LPs with no sagging. The upper row had the games, but now it will hold my CDs. I need to make a riser for the back row so I can see all of the names when I go looking for something and so they use the height of the shelf better. This means I can move out the little six-shelf CD cabinet that didn't really look very good and was kind of small. It might be sold at the garage sale, it might be re-used. Hard to say right now.

It probably didn't take as long to do all of this as it took to describe it. :-/

SRS