The entire contents of a large cabinet have gone to the church for the spring variety sale, along with a substantial quantity of embroidered linens that I have never used over more than 30 years of having custody of them. Next Tuesday, the cabinet will depart for the same destination -- I made the arrangements yesterday. We still have a superfluity of framed art, but by next spring, when the variety sale comes around again, the rest of the house should have been painted and final decisions made about most of it.

I'm looking forward to seeing more of the ugly walls of our basement TV-watching space.