Maryanne seems to be pulling out lengths ahead of the rest of the pack!

Liz, this is not the Eight Belles scenario! Pick yourself up (brush off the chocolate crumbs) and find one place to work on. The corner of the dining room table. Where should those things really go? Or maybe try a packrat's shortcut--arrange like things together and see if you can streamline the clutter. The lacuna created between the individual categories of stuff on the table will help you begin to move it all off.

Kat prophesied: I found another box of bottles when we shifted some boxes from one room to another! So did I, but it was three largish boxes. Antique trunks, in fact, filled with antique goodies that I forgot I'd put up on 2x4s in the garage and was hidden behind other boxes. Gotta move them into the house before another summer out there makes them deteriorate too much. I think there is a set of china for 12 in one of those. I've wondered where it got to.

My yard out front is lovely. The side veggie bed is going, and to achieve more room in this garden I did declutter--I took out the big sage. Moved around a lot of pots beside the door, stored the unused ones and tossed a lot of oddball stuff, and I gave the boot to daffodils growing out of the turf. Have to figure out where to put them, but I finally was able to mow over that spot and it looks great.

SRS