We've kind of spiraled this thread down to cover the winter blahs and aches and pains, haven't we? But guess what--the sun is out here!

This morning I came across a brave soul running a garage sale. She's selling stuff that they probably thought they were pretty savvy about collecting years ago--action figures, beanie babies, etc, which have no value now. And for those who were paying attention, we knew they didn't have much then. What I bought from her were 8 shepherds crooks for supporting stuff in my garden. It helps to put the tomatoes in a cage and use something like this to keep the cage upright.

So this weekend I'm going to be pulling on my coat if I need it and organizing my gardening stuff in the garage, I'm going to be clearing out the planting area in my sun room window, and I need to clear out some of the unused pots that are collecting leaf litter outside my door.

Since we've kind of clumped a bunch of stuff into this de-clutter and weight loss tracking thread, I propose we split off our aches and pains to the recovery ward (Sinsull keeps it so ship shape, I hate to see it not being used!) and maybe another one for some of the non-corporeal spirit-boosting exercises (Susan's specialty). And I need to quit posting my de-cluttering remarks in LilyFester's recovery thread. (I see she's making progress--soon she won't need that recuperation thread, she'll be picking up where she left off, pardon the pun.)

I know, I know, some of you are going to be under several inches of snow over the weekend. There will be some suitable remarks to do with heavy weather--but what are you doing with yourselves while you're stuck inside to make that indoors environment more habitable?

Since it should be nice here I need to get out and walk the dogs this weekend. If it doesn't stay warm I probably need to get a pair of goggles so I can walk more easily (without my dry eye complication of watery eyes when I'm in the wind or cold).

What progress does anyone else have to report? Kat, has Morgan come over again to help you? That child sounds like a wonder! My oldest (Moonglow) is coming by this afternoon, and I may have her take some time to box up some of the loose toys in her room that she doesn't want so I can sell them for her on eBay. She has so much stuff in there, and it was mostly for display. But she'll want to give her kids some new stuff, so perhaps we can clear out some of this (or put it in a place for our own garage sale later in the spring). I'll be using her room as the sewing room, so I can use the space.

I have a lot of extra cloth in there--is there some quilt planning going on for maeve? If anyone is sending quilt-sized pieces, what are the measurements you're using? I can probably come up with something (or many somethings!)

SRS