Ranger: Sounds great!
SRS: you know that moving furniture is just exercise and exercise generates endorphins - if you are not hating it!

Anyone who goes to my FB page - anyone can, Dorothy Parshall, McGill University (amazingly, there is more than one Dorothy Parshall with no middle name) - can access the youtube about a book on de-cluttering. I have not watched it yet but a dear friend has really liked it.

My life became severely cluttered, I think it was Saturday or maybe Friday, by a contretemps on the Raccoon Network. Name calling and nastiness! I suggested mediation. Apparently I am dumber than dishwater!

So my brain/inner self has been trying to figure out where to go with it. Very little sleep last night as I lay awake trying to come up with a Quakerly/constructive way to tell someone(s) they are a darn fool, or worse.

I am really a BAD person. I called someone on making an incorrect assumption. On and on... Actually TWO separate situations/threads! I had the audacity to post: "I am really tired of the name-calling and nastiness. It really saddens me." As that thread went on, assuming I was referring to a totally different situation, I saw "...before Dorothy attacked us..." Oh, help! ?????? OH that was the same one who "tried to Pm Dorothy but she wouldn't reply". My internet had gone out!

In the midst of it, someone posted the site of this "horrible person" they were maligning. I went and looked at it. It is totally public, like mine. Seemed an OK person so I pmed him then I friended him. I really like him! He is feeling as threatened as those who are maligning him. I am not feeling too happy with the behaviour of the human race at the moment --So I am glad to be here, on this thread!

How could I have the stupidity to think that people might want to be solve problems in a constructive manner. No wonder the world is in such a mess.

Well, the bottom line will be to de-clutter that group out of my life. Ask those who are friends to let me know if any good info comes along but skip all the vicious behaviours.

The Farmer's Market was OK. I was delighted to be able to replace a broken butter dish lid for the woman who bought one in the summer. That the one in stock actually fit!!! Must try harder to be consistent in sizing things like that - so I don't have the clutter (as now) of lots of lids and bottoms that refuse to fit each other - and I just keep making more, hopefully!

The stove wood never arrived. Weds now, he says. So, Sunday eve, R started the chain saw to cut some wood and cut his finger. Thankfully, the glove took the worst but it was a trip to the city hospital - six stitches but did not harm a tendon! So, to be supportive, I ended up in that cold house which now has no water - frozen. This gives a new aspect to de-cluttering. I could not do the laundry and brought the dishes back to the country this morning to wash them! I left two large metal bowls full of snow in the oven so we can flush the toilet. No idea when this might be resolved. The oven is on to provide heat. I'll take water back with me tonight. I might even be able to find a couple buckets with lids. R could bring water from another building.

So I sit here listening to L. Cohen music which seems to soothe me. Hoping to get to a resolution in my own mind. Yes, Susan, I will not stew too long over this, either but I have to find a clear way forward.

I'll email my friend who stood up for me and one of those who pmed me. The sensible ones. Realized on the way down here that those who are the best known rehabbers were noticeably missing from the foolishness. One sweetie pmed me to apologize for calling someone an "outhouse rat"! I thanked her but her comment was after I quit looking.

Thank you, Leonard, for the music that soothes. There are other very dear musicians that I thought could help but ended up with this, seems to be what I need tight now.