catclawfarm so long suckah!

In the meantime, I've been to Hawaii twice (or maybe 4 times) and to Spain. Not bad!

We're down to one 5 week-old chicken named Peep that we're pretty sure is a rooster.

I'm working part-time at AZ Museum for Youth (www.arizonamuseumforyouth.com) and seasonally for HR Block.

I still write and quilt and fiddle around in the garden.

I still have lots of crap.

This appears to be a recurring theme.

Okay, yeah, so I love books. Okay, yeah, paper in general. I must have been a printer or paper maker in a previous life.

However, today, I filled up yet another a paper grocery bag full of the paper and old manuals and threw them all away. I didn't stack them up "to be dealt with later." No, I bagged up the manuals, piled up the old phone books, tossed the no-I-probably-won't-use-it paper, and walked it all out to the trashcan. I finished the process by wheeling the trashcan to the curb.

I have a tendency to start projects and not get them done ... sad, but true. I've been agonizing over a green and white quilt that's been in the works for 3+ years. It's a very simple design and has a high boredom factor ... who wants to do the same thing over and over again? And I'm not happy w/ the fabric quality. Today I decided to give it away ... cut my losses. It's gone!

The trick with this process of throwing away crap is to actually throw it away. Or, at least, get it out of the house. I'm good at deciding I don't want something, putting it in the get-rid-of-pile, and having that pile grow and grow and grow.

And grow.

So, today, I went through the pile of to-read-magazines and decided, you know what, I'm not going to read these magazines.

And pitched them into the recycling bin. Out they went, into the trash bin when I emptied the recycling bin. Out of the house, on their way to being recycled.

Today I pulled out a box that looked like it had great potential for the dumpster that currently resides in our driveway. Unfortunately, it held lots of Italy and Australia travel paraphernalia that I'm not willing to part with ... yet. However, it did yield two magazines. A positive start!