This morning I decided I was tired of looking at the small plastic dog house and a large plastic covered cat litter pan beside the garage, so they're both down at the curb. Trash day is tomorrow, but I predict these will be gone before noon. If not, I'll tuck them into the SUV and take them to Goodwill before the trash pickup.

I'm on my way to accumulating items for that Container Store shopping bag. I'd love to make a run this afternoon and drop it off while I'm working on a couple of other things.

Cooking this morning, to get a jump on meals for the week. And darn, but I had to toss a couple of pounds of chicken that thawed on the counter but were left out hours longer by mistake. No point in risking cooking it now. I have another one in the freezer and I'll be more careful defrosting this time. I have bread and milk that need using, so bread pudding is on the menu, and squash and eggplant that need cooking, so my squash casserole and breaded fried eggplant for Parmesan. The patties freeze beautifully and I can assemble Parmesan later, but I also assemble a few in Pyrex single-serving containers and freeze those.

Laundry is ready to hang on the line. I need to use what energy I have now, because when it hits 109^o again this afternoon, I'll stick to the shadows and barely move.