I mowed part of the back yard today with the "bag" setting on so I could get cuttings to put in the compost pile (I usually use "mulch"). I then emptied the last 5-gallon bucket of kitchen waste and dumped another bag of cuttings on top of it. I'll finish mowing tomorrow. For now, there are a 3-gallon and a 2-gallon bucket beside the kitchen door. The bigger one was just too heavy if filled to the top (and it was too easy to do that). The bucket is in the trash, I can't think of another use I would put that stinky thing to. Plant something? Hmmm. I have until Thursday's trash pickup to change my mind.

I also did my sparkling water shopping at the nearby discount grocery where a 12-pack of Topo Chico is much easier to lift than the 18-pack from Costco. I can lift the heavier items, but it's easier if they're not that large.

The pocketbook was decluttered when I paid off the heat pump loan, in the 24th month of a 36-month loan. There's another, bigger, heat pump looming to die one of these days. I want to be ready for it.