There's a MidCentury Atomic Age Vintage Retro Culture and Ads site (long name, easy to find) on Facebook, and I was reminded this morning of the set of Russel Wright melamine that I pulled together a few years ago. Some of it is a spinoff from the company that did the pressing (after they ran the Wright "Residential" or other patterns they had to use the rest of the plastic emulsion so put out their own basic pattern with the same plastic mix. I got some of those also.) I should probably do something with these. Some of it came from my family, we used it when I was a kid.

A friend will arrive to stay in about 10 days so I've started Martha Stewart's deep cleaning routine, but so far just in the hall/guest bathroom and I'll work outward from there. That was an hour of remarkably sweaty work, scrubbing and polishing. The box of everything that came out for the cleaning will be assessed and tossed, rehomed, or washed before going back to the bathroom.

I hear the rain so will dress accordingly for my next cat feeding/lunch with child trip, and plan to finish all of my running today by mid-afternoon when heavy weather is forecast to clobber the area. I want to be parked in the garage in case there is big hail.