Day 83

Day 83

Thursday, June 19, 2014

My life is like ketsup. 

Shake, shake ketsup bottle;

None’ll come and then a lot’ll.

So yesterday started way too early .. at one point I even misread the clock by an hour,  so was “ahead” all morning.  Good thing I use the alarm clock to help me remember eye drops … that got me back “on track”.  Of course, I didn’t get very much done.  The last of the plastic boxes I have are packed, and I have nothing left but shoe box size.

In the afternoon .. around 2:00 I think … TGF came over with DGS15 and a friend.  She brought boxes!!  So first, she put prices on the yard sale stuff and we packed it up.  The boys took things out to the car.  They also gathered up a lot of bigger items.  Then she took pictures of all the cameeras … they will be put up on ebay.  I don’t exect much, but anything at all will help.  I kind of hate that it will mean every time one sells, she will have to go box and ship it .. but it was her idea (and buyer pays shipping).

She had thought DSS would come over after work with the truck; but he’d had to fix the water pump, and it got late.  She took the boys on home so she could fix supper for her crew. 

They came back (TGF, DSS, the 2 boys) a little after 8:00.  They finished loading everything else, including the folding tables.  It was getting very dark and thundery, and some lightening, by the time they left around 9:00.

There were storms during the night … all I can do is hope nothing got rain damaged, nothing to be done about it.  There’s no way anyone can ever plan a giant yard sale and be sure of the weather.  Today will probably be OK,  though there could be a stray afternoon shower.  Tomorrow might be tricky, looking more and more like a rainy day.   Just have to wait and see.

Once all that was done and they were gone, I shut everything down.  As usual, I dozed off during the 10:00 show; but woke up for the news.  Which I turned off, too tired to care!  I did wake during the night to hear the thunder and rain.  And I didn’t wake until 6:30, which is great.

Today might be a little busy later.  This morning a friend is coming to visit, so I’ll do nothing but visit and talk for awhile.  Later in the afternoon TGF will come get me (and possibly the baby kittens) and we’ll go check out how the boys are doing;  give them the kittens to give away (might not be easy, DSS said he’d already seen numerous signs for “free kittens” where people were starting to set up last night); and then she’ll take me to the grocery store.  In between, hopefully I’ll start to figure out what to start on.   

I’ve more or less decided that the things upstairs will have to go into storage for the time being.  It’s just way too hot to spend enough time up there to sort.  It will be hard enough just bringing it down! So if I don’t stress over that for now, the big things to deal with are the kitchen and my computer room.  I’m  not going to worry about either one of those this morning at least. 

This day could start earlier than some have lately, so I’ll go on and get myself in gear.  I hope I can manage to be relaxed enough to just sit and visit and not even think about all that needs to be done  … I do still have 2 months to do it!!