CITY:
SRS! I am chronically amazed by your ability with, and interest in, all those electronic devices. I admit to now missing the TV and VCR recorder that I gave away after not using them for 3 years on Whidbey. My life has changed substantially and, once again, I realize that sometimes getting rid of things/de-cluttering can come back to bite me at a different place in life.

Tactical error yesterday: Do NOT take a de-tox bath on day of Folk dancing. The de-toxing leads to increased sensitivity and last night I smelled stuff even with the mask. Left early but managed a few dances- almost an hour, I think. On my way out, I stopped for a lengthy conversation with a Serbian dance instructor. I love Serbian and Croatian dances so it was fun to meet him. I lamented the lack of International dancing in Montreal and he told me he is moving to Toronto for that reason. I had hoped he could inform me of more places to dance in Montreal! An interesting meeting, I hope he will carry through on friending me on FB.

Need to work on spending less time on FB. I am gradually eliminating places I go and scrolling faster and faster past trivia. OF course, it helps that I am feeling better and WANT to DO things rather than sit and stare at the screen.

BF is done and R out the door, after more productive conversation about upcoming renovations and where we might live. During BF, there was a loud CRACK! and my chair tilted in a rather startling manner. The dear old antique chair broke and I wish to have it repaired - even if we did find it in the trash, it is charming. The good part, aside from I did not fall, was that R thought I had gone through the floor! "Any day now." I said. No question, this reno must be done! I have to come to terms with the fact that it can drag on and on and ... Depending on where R "needs" Bruno.

I am now suggesting that we move upstairs with a frig, microwave and toaster oven. I can cook stuff at the mill and bring it back, but most things can be accomplished with those appliances. But, I said, not if it goes into cold weather next fall.

Take down the worse than useless concrete block shed in the back and the unused chimney that is a sore point in the K, Put in a double door between K and sunroom - yes, sunroom out of those nice big wood-framed windows he already has, new walls in the laundry room and cabinets and lots of cabinets on the windowless wall of the sunroom, with a counter - for tools and a work space. May as well do it all at once and get it DONE!

Then, hopefully, it will be tight enough to keep out furry critters. Everything R might have done here is now on hold until he gets a humungous machine out of the ice (where it has sat 10 years), cleaned up and painted. Someone flying in from Guatemala on Monday to buy it!!!! That is de-cluttering of the best sort - like Stilly's E-bay stuff!

OK, gotta go pot! Want to have another kiln load to fire on the weekend.