SRS, our previous home was just that size, so I can relate. (It is now considered small?!?!?)

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I out-clutted a big piece of the porch pile, yesterday, that remained from the reorganizing of the rear porch. Among the week's efforts was yesterday-- I was holding some buckets for someone else and they were delivered a good long car-ride away with a dinner date with Hardi. But the more fun item was the pile of nursery-sized plastic planters. I needed a potting table on the quick, so I stacked a twin pile of these and threw on a handy piece of MDF, did my tasks, and left it to sit. Rain is expected the next few days, and the tasks that remain are small, so I brung in the big MDF, put the bags of potting mix into the pots, and kivered them over with a narrower pine board I don't care about-- it can get wet if the rain insists on coming under the eaves. But it's handy for the next round of tasks there-- Lord knows when I'll have a minute to get back to them anyhow.

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A nice new habit is cellphone fun with new friends or family, whenever I have an odd moment in the porch recliner. A lovely chat today with a new Buddhist friend. We have so much on common; it's neat to explore the edges of that when we can. She is shut in due to Lupus and stuff, so she was settin' where she sets and I was settin' where I sit-- tho of course I can and do go out, and will, later, when Hardi gets back.

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These new habits have netted more weight loss than I had realized. No wonder my knees hurt. But a side "benefit" is that there has been so much less TV time that I actually enjoyed the Obama press conference today-- we had hardly any idea about the oil gushing till ydy-- been in hockey-world-- so it was weird to catch up to network teevee again.

~Susan