Even if you didn't DO a lot Linn, you obviously thought a lot about things you have to do!

This afternoon I went to a visitation for a man who was at a Friends of the Library meeting I attended about 10 days ago. He died suddenly on Thursday. I wanted to give his wife a disk of photos I've taken over the years, and in particular there are a couple of lovely informal photos of the two of them together.

Tonight I cleared all of the little things off of the window sill over the kitchen sink. Marbles, paper clips, toothpicks, crystals, and tons of other tiny things accumulate in little containers. I'm the worst when I comes to saving letting seeds dry there - then remain in little plastic cups of all sorts. I kept the most recent batch and the rest will get one last chance because they're now in the compost.

I've also started tackling cardboard. I made one trip to the recycle bins today with the usual household stuff and tomorrow it will be flattened boxes, after I use what I need to encapsulate an old rusty anchor that I'm going to mail to my brother. It is probably something my Dad used with his Boston Whaler, and my brother has a boat not much larger than that. It's an old family keepsake and my brother should have it, whether he uses it or decorates with it.

In apparent anticipation of the anchor going out, my sister sent a box of stuff this week. She must have an endless storage room in her house somewhere - these boxes come a couple of times a year. This one had some of Mom's old 3.5" floppies that I copied to files and sent back to her via my dropbox file. It also has baby and children's clothes that Mom made for us and that later were used for doll clothes. The tyranny of the antique and the keepsake. Unless I'm going to tell my kids what they are and the stories that go with them, there is no point in keeping them. I'll make a point of sharing stories next time the kids are here together.

Dishwasher is running, I've about run out of steam. I agree with Linn - it's a good evening for reading.

SRS