Good news on all fronts, Charmion! I have a whitewashed Mexican pine loveseat that I've moved around the house, unlike your Danish modern that doesn't quite fit, this fits very well but I have to decide where I want to leave it. Right now it hosts dog paraphernalia next to the back door so no humans may sit on it, but I am almost sure I've figured out the dog food thing with my blue heeler and if I can get to where they both eat one type of food, I can remove the second large food bin in the antique trunk and fill it with the dog stuff, clearing my bench for me. Yes, that's vague - I could fill the trunk or fill the bin with dog stuff. Not sure which yet.

A dive into the closet this morning. I've put the sandals away in one wire drawer where they live 3/4 of the year. I took a look at shelves I usually forget about and realized happily that a skirt I used to wear years ago fits again, though the t-shirt I used to wear with it is getting rather worn. Another lovely skirt with a wide elastic band looks good except the elastic has expired adding half again as much circumference to the waist. Put a new waistband on, wear a belt, or use it for something else (sewing project)? I pulled a shopping bag with a large leather satchel to list on eBay, and there are a couple of others in there I should also list (not used much). The bag I'll offer to the younger women in the family first. (Daughter, Daughter-in-law, and partner of son.)

There's still a bulky (18" cubed) safe on the top shelf of that closet built-in, somehow attached to the wall behind the drywall. It wiggles but won't pry loose. Never had the combination. Maybe it's time again to see if I can find a way to get it out. Patching that part of the wall is easy enough, but I fear I need to make the hole larger before I patch it, to see what is going on with the safe's anchor (probably screwed to a stud).

In the pantry I'm pulling out too-old-even-for-me home-canned jelly a half-pint at a time and dissolving it into the 3-gallon bucket of water in the sink and then pouring the contents over parts of the garden. The sugar is a perfectly good stimulator for the soil, an easy fertilizer. Might as well use it where I can get the most good from it now. We haven't had rain for weeks so I'm still having to water parts of the yard to keep things healthy.