DECLUTTER: *Health *Progress - 2026**

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER: *Health *Progress - 2026**
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 May 26 - 11:29 AM

I was mulling that same thing about letters as I wrote the last post, it must have broadcast through the ether. I'm looking at old letters in the computer now thinking "is anyone going to want to see this?" not "will it make a difference in the world?" Also the daughter of a librarian hoarder of information and my own decades of work in the library had me thinking "that could be interesting later." Now I ask "to whom?"

I have fewer filing cabinets (two down from four). And their most important job is to hold up the plank of furniture-grade plywood that serves as the desktop for the old computer and the digital equipment if I ever get around to digitizing my Dad's many cassette tapes. (Those WILL go to a university archive, so it is what I should be doing now.)

We (Mudcatters) donated a couple of computers to Art Thieme over the years and he put them to good use, digitizing all of his song recordings. Bob Nelson (Deckman) also. I need to take a page from that book and do the same and then clear out all of these shelves of stuff that I never even notice any more but that take up a lot of wall space behind me in the office.

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER: *Health *Progress - 2026**
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 May 26 - 03:26 PM

I'm pacing myself today on the yard work because it's hot out there, but I've made progress on the first long raised bed. Next trip out will extend the length. I'm combining a couple of them and cutting a new path between the two that will result (where there were three). I'm in for an iced tea cool-down break, then back to the driveway. I hope this evening to run the tiller and get the bedding plants all put in place. A trip to pick up free mulch will be required soon but I have a few bags from last fall to use first. The really rotten old planks from the edges are broken and slipped into the trash bin alongside the juniper branches. Other old siding pieces (not rotten but less robust than what is going in now) will be cut to length and lay down on that new path I'm digging through the bed area.

In the cleanup of duplicate files in the old HP I find that it still has a working version of the old Google Picasa photo organizing tool. I had no idea it would work but clicked on the icon and there it went, cataloging all of the thousands of photos. I'll have to see if I can make some use of it now.

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER: *Health *Progress - 2026**
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 09 May 26 - 05:00 PM

A bit of mental decluttering: I subscribe to The Observatory and Astronomy and Geophysics from the Royal Astronomical Society, and realised recently that I'm a few issues short of both. Today, I finally e-mailed RAS to ask whether my subscription has date-expired, or if the postie's eaten them. So that particular Round Tuit has landed, or is at least in flight.

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER: *Health *Progress - 2026**
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 May 26 - 09:45 PM

I could go out and plant tonight but I'm tired and the mosquitoes will be out (though lightning bugs are also out and they're a delight). I've tilled one now-elongated bed and am ready to till the next (it needs more planks on the far end, but 2/3 of it is looking good). The routine today was to wheelbarrow various tools in and out of the garage and work for about an hour until I felt uncomfortably hot, then rolled it all back and drank iced tea in the house for an hour. This was strenuous enough and engaging enough that it was a great departure from screen time and the politics that ooze through.

Time for a shower and a good night's sleep.

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER: *Health *Progress - 2026**
From: Charmion
Date: 10 May 26 - 08:39 AM

Up early — 0538 hr — after a broken night of coughing. I still can’t talk, let alone sing. This is driving me nuts.