Night visitor

Tonight when I turned on the light on the back deck to say goodnight to our cat, there was a raccoon looking in the patio door. He was helping himself to the cat's water and the bird seed from the bird feeder. I had noticed the seed being eaten rather quickly. I had taken Mollie to the vet for her required rabies shot this week; now I know why. She does have to interact with wild life. I chased him away, but he was in no hurry-just ambled along.

Strawberries

This week I bought 16 quarts of strawberries at a bargain price of $2 a quart. I bought them from one of my Amish neighbors who lives less that 2 miles from my house. I have made two pies (one for another neighbor who feeds our cat when we are gone), froze about three gallons of berries and made 10 jars of frozen jam. I have about 3 quarts left to deal with. I am running out of ideas. Do you think I bought too much?

Today I spent most of the day at a city wide garage sale. I spent less that $20 and came home with an electric pasta maker (new price on the box was $200 ) two DVDs, a bulldozer type toy for grandson to play in the sand, a bike helmet for him when he rides the four-wheeler at our house and two origami kits for children.

Stiff muscles

Today when I went to my massage therapist, there were serious sore spots all over, from my neck to bottom of my feet. Not sure if it is from my hike up Devil's Lake in Wisconsin, from the hours (about 20 total) sitting on the motorcycle there and back or from helping carry my cedar chest from the living room to the garage. The hike was well worth it. I haven't downloaded G's pictures yet so cannot show what it was like. I put the chest on FreeCycle and someone is scheduled to pick it up tonight. I am just picking away at getting rid of things I no longer use.

Found: cash and candy

You hear stories of little old ladies who die and their family find money and valuables hidden in their house. Well, dear son and daughter, you may have your work cut out for you. Yesterday and today while taking out summer clothes and putting the cold weather clothes away, I found an envelope with cash and a box of chocolate covered cherries that I bought as a Christmas gift for Gerry in my sock drawer. (I have a reputation for remembering a gift that I have hidden and forgotten to wrap when we are opening our gifts at Christmas.) The reason this project has taken two days is that I make a decision on each item. If it was not worn the past season, maybe it should go to the thrift store. And everything must fit. No keeping something with the thought that I will loose a few pounds and it will again fit. If I loose the few pounds, I will just buy new if I need it.

Readers: are there things you have hidden, forgotten and then found later?