The Bullet Journal idea has worked for me, to keep track of things but also to look back and figure out when stuff happened, is it time again, etc. Started in 2017; I see a list of magazine and newspaper subscriptions in the first volume and that has moved to the Excel file, but a lot of the rest is still going.

Those ant mound sculptures are works of art, and not just in lead any more. The silver ones are spectacular. If you decide to make one let us know! Think about your new homestead this way - if the biome is healthy, if it has been treated well, then there will be critters there. You don't want to find yourself living on a toxic waste dump or where someone went crazy with the 2,4,D and awful Ortho products.

Headfirst into eBay this afternoon, finding a box big enough for some vintage duratuff tumblers. And I've located the combination VHS/DVD player for a friend who is looking for one, but I'll test it before I take it over.

My elderly across-the-street neighbors are a hospital tag team this month; he just got home after two weeks (at 90 they removed his appendix and gall bladder?) and now she's admitted because of bad edema. I'm going to start some cooking to take over to one or both of them, something I need to do as a regular activity just so I can tell how they're doing from one visit to the next. As much as I'm avoiding wheat these days, I think a batch of my dinner rolls would be a good start, but mostly I'll work on casseroles that can be frozen or microwaved. In the past I've taken things cooked from my garden, but the garden didn't do much this year so I'll improvise.