ragdall I crave being back in that climate again one of these years! Your yard is lovely (and aren't you a cutie - I always have to decide when I get ready to run to the store - do I change out of the pants with the paint stains or just go as I am? I usually just go, if it's Home Depot, etc. and figure I'll fit in with the contractors.)

We should each walk outside and take a photo of the front yard and back yard so we can see the season at each of our houses. :)

Maryanne, do yourself a huge favor and change all of the smoke detector batteries at the same time. They'll one by one drive you nuts if you don't. I change them all out (we have 5) when I change the clocks in the fall, so it'll be time again soon. The batteries still have a lot of life in them, but for about $13 for the pack of batteries, it is worth keeping them at the top of their form and avoid that stupid chirping.

The code in my village says I need the combination wired/battery detectors in each bedroom and in the hall outside (4) and one in my office (that could also be a bedroom). I stopped trying to keep a battery-only one on a nail in the laundry room because kitchen smoke would set it off occasionally. I should probably set one in the next room over so if a kitchen fire got out of control then it would go off. (No, knock wood, I don't have fires in the kitchen, but I do occasionally accidentally singe things, like most cooks.) The four in the bedroom side of the house go off in unison and are so loud they hurt.

This morning I've been shifting the contents of wire shelves in my sun room, from the small one to the newer large one. I linked a few shorter bungee cords together and wrapped them around the shelves a few inches up to keep the contents from pitching off if it gets bumped. I think I can confine my gardening stuff to the bottom couple of shelves and use the top for storing things like my extra cloth grocery bags and a box of outdoor gear (hats, gloves, etc.) since it is beside the door I use the most.

SRS