BS: June'10 Declutter & Exercise Accountability

Subject: RE: BS: June'10 Declutter & Exercise Accountability
From: wysiwyg
Date: 02 Jun 10 - 07:43 AM

SRS, yes, that kind. Dog World has two sections. One is "Play at will" and one is, "We use house manners here." The second section (house manners) will hold the screen room-- it's only accessible to the dogs when they are invited in there. Probably one dog at a time-- just as one dog at a time is usually with us about the house. They get along fine, but Sadie gets pretty silly, and even sillier when F is there to play with.

OTOH Sadie can sometimes be quite settled and sweet-- they will let me know who wants watered playtime and how much direction they need. But they will not be in the section with the screen room by themselves-- the other section has its own shade and a porch to lie under (or inside of.)

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: June'10 Declutter & Exercise Accountability
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Jun 10 - 08:52 PM

Getting back onto the eBay bandwagon again. Listed another item today, and might do one more this evening. I had some old currency that is at least worth face value, but when it is 60 years old, it might be worth a little more. List it so the minimum cost covers postage and eBay fees and I'll at least break even when I put these bills in the hands of collectors.

My dining table is looking closer and closer to clear. The school sent the breakdown of scholarship and cash--we still have some expenses, but nothing like when a kid goes through with no scholarships. At least she's getting work study, and hopefully he will also. Aside from giving him walking around money, a few hours a week of work gives him experience. Anyway, it is just a couple of expanding folders and a couple of stacks to file somewhere, and the table will be clear. But I'm not moving these things off of it until I'm sure they're completely squared away, and anything I used that I might need again can be easily located.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: June'10 Declutter & Exercise Accountability
From: GUEST,Eiseley
Date: 01 Jun 10 - 06:00 PM

I like this picture of St. Cecilia, done by a contemporary artist named Ellen Chavez de Leitner.

Eiseley

Subject: RE: BS: June'10 Declutter & Exercise Accountability
From: maire-aine
Date: 01 Jun 10 - 05:48 PM

Kat, I went to St. Cecilia High School, but I don't think I've ever seen a picture of the ol' gal (ha-ha).

Maryanne

Subject: RE: BS: June'10 Declutter & Exercise Accountability
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Jun 10 - 05:06 PM

I wouldn't dare set up something like that around the dogs. I'm afraid they'd play and tear it up. If you're describing one of those kind of tents with mosquito siding so you can see through them. Very nice.

I received an email today that the new television shipped. I can't tell you how nice this will be--I have recently realized that part of the reason I haven't watched a lot of the movies I'd like to is because we have all of these various sets around the house, but they're all quite small and with different playback systems. Because I prefer the "letterbox" format, I end up with movies playing on the middle 1/2 of the screen, and though more of the picture is there, it is quite small.

If I set a movie up to play on this new one, formatted for HD, I can see it from three rooms and can work in any of them and watch at the same time (I'll eventually upgrade the DVD to blue-ray and probably find a newer stereo receiver at a garage sale one of these days). My old habit of treating it more like radio, but actually being able to see what is going on when I look at it will kick back into gear.

Son is at a senior event at school. He went in jeans and a band (Rush, I think) t-shirt that have been off limits all year. No more school uniforms. Tomorrow is graduation.

For 16 years I've been getting up in time to take kids to school because the school district demanded it. After tomorrow, that is over. It'll be interesting.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: June'10 Declutter & Exercise Accountability
From: GUEST,Eiseley
Date: 01 Jun 10 - 04:58 PM

Susan, that sounds so relaxing and cooling! A screen room with a sprinkler---wonderful!

I am so glad you put Exercise in the title this month, Stilly. Maybe it will push me to push myself.

We had the summer reading program kickoff this morning---more than 175 kids poured into the foyer because it was too rainy to draw with sidewalk chalk. But the pandemonium was relatively contained. I would have lost an ounce or two with all the running around I did beforehand, but I did have a delicious root beer float that canceled out all the good. Oh well.

Eiseley

Subject: RE: BS: June'10 Declutter & Exercise Accountability
From: wysiwyg
Date: 01 Jun 10 - 04:03 PM

O frabjous joy! I just bought a new screen room for DOG WORLD. A company whose other (inexpensive) products we have liked has finally made an affordable nylon one-- same price as previous vinylized version 10 years ago, but with whippy, lightweight poles for better camping portability-- the last one was perma-installed. This one will go back in its case when we depart on vacay. (I'm allergic not only to sun, but also to skeeters.)

The last time I had one of these in this size, 10 years ago, I installed a puddle in it to kick and exercise my legs and back. This time-- a sprinkler will go IN IT and a smaller, snail-free feets-puddle to wet me. These will cold-wet me in my recliner, in a private sitting area.... much larger than the shower I sat in ydy, on a 5-gal plastic bucket, under the free water from our deep well.

While the doggehs play.....

Heck, I jes' may not be at Mudcat much more this "summer." :~) No doubt Hardi will memorialize with the new video camera....

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: June'10 Declutter & Exercise Accountability
From: wysiwyg
Date: 01 Jun 10 - 12:28 PM

A few last upstairs office tasks to get done on a cool day (they've gotten rare), but the segue to summer AC-space projects is well in hand.

A potential summer porch work project is shaping up-- catching old folks' memories while they are still sharp, with my lil recorder and a tall glass of iced tea.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: June'10 Declutter & Exercise Accountability
From: katlaughing
Date: 01 Jun 10 - 10:51 AM

I grew up playing violin and piano, with hearing and learning fiddling a bit when my dad played, but I don't play much anymore at all, except with Morgan. I do love and play the lap dulcimer and Morgan has a cardboard kit one which sounds really good. I dabble on his little uke and know three chords on the baritone, but hardly ever play them except, again, with Morgan, same with the parlour banjo.:-) It's not that big of a corner, they will hang closely together. I'll take a picture when it's done. I forgot to say I have a lovely old print in its original frame of Saint Cecilia the patron saint of music. I didn't know that when I bought it, I just thought it was a neat old print. When my brother told me who she was, I hung her above my piano and there she stayed. I haven't had a piano since selling mine, under duress, in 2000, so, just by chance, the music corner, with the electronic keyboard, sits just under her beatific visage.

I've put the dishes to soak, will wash them in a few minutes. More later. Lost some sleep last night.

Subject: BS: June'10 Declutter & Exercise Accountblty
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Jun 10 - 10:23 AM

Summer officially arrives this month, and for many of us in the U.S., the "unofficial first day of summer" was yesterday, Memorial day. The last Monday in May.

This is the season when our metabolisms are most geared for weight loss. We put this up against the body's inclination to slow down in heat. Our gardens are producing. Hopefully what we end up with is a healthy diet of fresh fruit and vegetables, exercise in the cool part of the day, and weigh loss.

I'm going to loose about 180 pounds this summer - old gag, I know - my son will go to college. Before then, I have to cajole, nag, pester, threaten, urge my son to clean up his room.

I did list an item on eBay yesterday, and I have a few more that will go up this week. It's a combination of extra income and extra space that drives this listing now. I'm tired of looking at the messy sun room. Time to thin it out in there.

Everyone was going great guns on various projects at the end of the May thread. Here's hoping we can all keep up the forward momentum.

Kat, I was impressed with your list of musical instruments you have in that corner (must be a big corner!). How many of them do you play, or are you a collector, or both?

SRS