Susan, it sounds like you're handling the change the best way - small steps until the medication stabilizes. I cleaned my pickup inside and out a couple of weeks ago, preparing to take my son to his university. It looks so good still, I guess I should do it more often!

Small declutter and decorating accomplishment here this weekend. A couple of years ago at a garage sale I bought a little 18" x 20" rough framed mirror made to look like a small window frame. At $1 it needed a little work, it had only a thin primer coat and some small gouges on one side of the frame. I put a smear of wood filler over that area, then didn't do anything except move this out of the way from one spot to another until now.

Yesterday morning I decided to address it, so I went through my paint cupboard (evicted one can that leaked onto the shelf) and found the can of a semi-gloss whitish paint I used on the cabinets I built in my daughter's room. After a couple of coats yesterday I scraped the paint off of the glass. This morning I measured and used a couple of drywall plastic things to put the screws in the wall (since it's going up between the studs) and pounded a couple of nail-free hangers on the frame. It is hanging between two ceramic hooks where we hang towels. It makes that wall look a lot more normal. Those two little hooks looked kind of spartan by themselves but now they compliment the mirror.

My eBay knife auction is set to start at 2pm my time. If I'm working on auctions late at night I postpone the starting time so when it comes close to ending people can discover it during the day and not have to get up in the wee hours if they're not into Snipe or one of the software programs that bids at the last minute.

Need my allergy eye drops this morning. It has been a long hot allergy-filled summer. It's getting cooler at night, though, and my calendar does tell me that September is near. I can hardly wait!

SRS