Sunday

My swim buddy, Barrie, is back from vacation and was at the pool today and discovered the new parking garage door closed situation and she's not having it.

When we were kids we lived in a great neighborhood. Kids our age up and down the street. My parents had excellent friends up and down the street, to. It was a 1950's neighborhood that was exactly like the stereotype of 1050's neighborhood.

My best friend, Babsie, lived in the middle of the next block. Her Dad, was the neighborhood watch. If anything happened, he never waited for some one else to say some, fix it, report it - he did it. If the power went off, my parents would just relax and say "Dick Page will call them to report it."

Barrie is the Dick Page of the pool. As soon as we finished our swim and got dressed she dragged me to the front desk to raise our concerns. The girl on duty knew less than anything about anything but she at least had the smarts to allow as how she'd pass on our thoughts to people in charge. Barrie is quite tall and the front desk girl is quite small. It was pretty funny to watch them. I think the garage will likely be open earlier next weekend.

Today is clean out the closet day. And, maybe even clean out 3 closets. I have 3 closets in the bedroom. 1 is shelves for folded clothes. 1 is hanging clothes and other stuff and 1 is just stuff - blankets and just all manner of stuff. It's this last one that is today's focus although the other two could use a little love as well.

It's going to be one of those Pull it all out, Evaluate, Toss, Donate, Return to now organized closet. It's one of 3 places in this house where stuff goes to hide. I'm quite sure I will find stuff I've been looking for since forever as well as stuff I have not needed or wanted in years.

I thought I'd wait til the baseball game starts for background noise but I think I might listen to my book as I do it. I feel like I'd have a better shot at success if I get on it now rather than wait.

Here's a bear from last night.

Accomplishment!

I took before and after photos and, frankly, it does not look nearly as impressive as it actually is. It was a lot more work than I anticipated. But, lots of rewards. Like a pair of shoes that just recently I thought 'gee, I wish I hadn't given those to Goodwill'... ha! I didn't!! And I found a jifty little keyboard/screen cleaning tool that I just love. I have one but I've wanted another one. It was a swag item that I've never seen for sale anywhere. I even found some clothes I'd forgotten I had and was glad to find.

I really do have way too much stuff.

Here's the mess.



Here's the fix. The real magic is that to the right there is a lot of shelf area that is now just empty. And a couple of those large bins are now only holding other stuff to put stuff into and not real stuff.



I have two big bags for Goodwill and a nice, big trash bag. The other two bedroom closets are next and maybe even tomorrow.

The pitcher of the opposing team just took a line drive (100+ mph) to the head. The batter is one of those really sweet, caring openly Christian players. It was devastating to see and then to see all of the players - both teams - just stopped dead and staring in deep worry as they tended to the guy. After a very very long time, he finally walked off the field with help but what a really terrible thing to happen.

My Pebble watch and my phone just had a huge falling out. They each were giving he other the silent treatment. I finally had to uninstall the watch app and reinstall it and finally they were able to see each others' point of view again. Whew. I'm really dependant on these two playing nice with each other.

Jane Pauley is on CBS Sunday morning - I watched the first 10 minutes - I really hope they keep her. I just saw the lineup for my Sunday tech podcast (This Week in Tech - I download and listen on Mondays). Two guests this week - my two least favorite guests so I guess I have an hour and a half freed up for tomorrow, too!

New sewing today. I think just TV and knitting.