Well, I have been busy. The below is all within 3 contexts: I have a new body, a new metabolism, and a planned, eventual-retirement process that will take several years of downsizing.


<> In May, a little at a time, I took apart Sick Bay: The entire south-facing bay window is thus no longer blocked by my sleeping recliner and room dividers, now that it no longer needs to hold the dear friend preparing for his wedding. That recliner went back to its usual TV position, tho I am not in it very long each day anymore. It gained some extra foam padding for the guest, but it is now way too hot to sit in during warm days. This is a help to the new habits of home-tending which I am now able to undertake. The smaller recliner I used, while waiting for that wedding, has gone back to its back-porch-settin' spot for brekky, dinner, and reading-- interspersing yard cleanup forays.

In the LR a lot of small furniture has been moved a bit to get that room back to what we like, post-surgery. The LR is almost ready to vacuum. The window screens go in after I post. The AC can go back in that spot when it needs to. Thus I have the cross-ventilation system for this house in place. Hardi has been working on same, for the upstairs, and he surprised me by putting the window AC in our bedroom last night-- heaven on humid nights!!!


<> A clothing process that has gone on for months is done-- a boatload of alterations. I have 100% of what I need now, and 90% of what I might need for the next 1-2 years of gradual weight loss, all able to be taken in more (as needed and as item condition warrants).

Because so MANY old sizes all got altered down to where my body is now, there is a LOT of stuff. I passed quite a bit along before the alts process; what I kept is guided by a sensible inventory of what our lifestyle actually requires. That same inventory will guide any new purchases as items wear out.

The new way of organizing what is now a HUGE wardrobe is 90% done, including a rack by the dryer to hang items as they come out now that I can stand long enough to do it-- they do NOT need to be carried to the LR with tidy whities to clutter us up until folded/hung up/reworn! Also included are the little hanging thingies that allow 4-8 hangers to be combined onto a hanging hook.

The old MudDorm/guest space is a spare closet at the moment, for dressy items a church event or special personal occasion might require.

Our bedroom has a closet for off-season items to move back and forth, between it and my personal closet next to the loo. (I might move these to the MudDorm-- have to see how much bulk.) That loo-adjoining closet now holds casual tops/dresses (it used to be folded, IN the loo), and will also hold a sampling of dressy items, per season, for quick changes as our lives sometimes compel.

The loo closet is now all undies and PJs, shorts and jeans-- folded-- to put on after showers. The surgery allowed me to wear panties again, so I have a LOT-- half of them various shades of pink. (These also get taken in, by hand, as needed.)


<> Professionally: Stilly's wonderful HUGE binders arrived as I was completing a new traveling curriculum and letting an old diocesan job go to someone else. This means office space for the new ministry can occupy space taken up by the old job, in which I will now only act as a mentor holding the hand of the person undertaking it until they are ready to go on their own. They get the stuff I am clearing out, to make more room for the new ministry!


<> My schedule is once again decluttered and therefore open for the new ministry and new social activities.


~S~