After Gary kindly helped me this morning dispose of the deceased microwave, and offered to pick up a new one wherever I ordered it from, I got off on my walk before it got too hot.
The wild daylilies are out near the pond
Home again and there's an apprentice mechanic next door, showing a keen interest in what's under the hood.
When they were leaving she ran to the driver's side and had to be redirected to the passenger seat. Quite ambitious.
I'm decluttering the kitchen of things that belong outside, such as clay pots and saucers, and in the recycle, such as old tin cans, unusable metal baking dishes, an oven thermometer which is impossible to read, terrible design, plastic algae ridden containers. To name a few.
It's looking better, still a lot of stuff, but I use everything that's now on the shelves, the best criterion.
I recently noted a YouTuber I like very much, a simple-living non dogmatic, good natured Dutch woman, pointing out that there can be an addictive element to winnowing.
Now that's an interesting thought, and may well be true and worth a moment. When it gets to be an activity for its own sake, rather than a useful improvement, hm, that's a thought.
I like to do it with care, and I have little respect for attaching numerical goals, so many items per day, over so many days. That seems more of an invented fad than a useful way of working.
It might also be useful for a person who agonizes and can't get organized. Not judging here, just thinking.
And while I'm thinking, here's another think*
bundled car and home policies for a better deal.
* I lost wifi in the middle of a thought so I made a screenshot to avoid having to rewrite, hence the different appearance of part of this paragraph. Back to the narrative:
And after we finished talking I felt a whole lot better. I think it wasn't loneliness after all, it was feeling untethered. Being asked for information drew me right back in as an active neighbor. Ah. Claro.
Happy day everyone, what's your take on any or all of these random bits of trivia?
