Stilly, remember that photo of Faith Popcorn's desk and office? Our house is sort of the domestic version of that. Not anything anyone else can actually DO.

However...my up-the-hill neighbor has generously offered to help with some of the more strenuous tasks (or ones that are most efficient with two people) such as standing on a ladder to remove the decorative plates of the beams so I can wash them and then put them back up. She runs a pre-school, so when summer break arrives, she'll have some more time to help me out.

But so much of what I'm doing is having to go through stuff and cull, then decide what's the best way to give away, donate, or sell what is no longer needed.

I've also got to think about cleaning out my car as my "new" one will be ready some time this month. And, since we're going to be able to properly grade and gravel the driveway soon, I have to get about two-thirds of the firewood to its new home and get the rest of it restacked where it won't be in the way. AND extricate from what was plowed up this winter and replant the rhubarb and get the forsythia (and other plants) out of the holding bed/loam pile where they've been ignored for too many years and properly planted so I can also disappear the loam pile (at least I know where it's going) so that location can be included in the driveway.

If I stop to think about it, I'll feel overwhelmed, so I'm taking it one step at a time.

I'm off in about 45 minutes to the first caregivers' class. Got to get Tom's breakfast and him squared away first.

Later,
Linn