Wonderful news from both of you - that's major recovered square footage on both. Is the china already packed or is that going to be your fall project? My report is puny in comparison; I took a few shirts, some small ceramics and a couple of working vintage electrical devices to Goodwill after dropping off my recycling at the village bins. This was some of mine and the last of the stuff that was in the garage from my friend's declutter this summer.

This afternoon I spooled string onto all of the extra empty reels for my electric trimmer and spent time in the front trimming tall seed heads and edging in preparation for mowing tomorrow. I won't mow the whole thing, just a few spots, the groundcover is coming along nicely in about 70% of the area directly in front of the house. The sides still need mowing so needed edging close to the house that the mower won't reach. I scalped grass and weeds on the paver and gravel porch patio and tossed one old crumbling pot (the soil distributed in a separate flower bed first). I stopped when my arms were getting tired; there's plenty to do every day this week for an hour at a time.

I'll be making a round trip drive later this week to pick up a friend to bring back to town for a couple of weeks. I haven't been to her town in ages so am looking forward to seeing how it looks now. It was a sleepy little town with a historic fort and lots of bed and breakfast Victorian houses last time I was there. Staring tomorrow I'll clean house and make the bed in the guest room. I'll make a batch of my dinner rolls to have here for her and visitors, though I am still trying to stay off of wheat altogether. My diet won't seem so odd to them if they can get one of their favorite foodstuffs here.