Summer, Part Three

Today began around 5:15 am, with a flurry of activity that revolved around getting our two California girls to the airport for a very early flight. Then, for me, it was back to bed, which proved more unsuccessful than anything else as the sun was quite bright. I managed a few extra hours and then got down to the final business of the summer, which is the clearing of the basement storage cantina and sorting of all kinds of boxes which have been down there since the move over a year ago.

The sorting took most of the day, and tomorrow, I need to properly pack up the various boxes destined for a garage sale in a few weeks, and those we intend to keep in the storage area. I also need to go through each room and see if any items can be added to the outbound piles. Once we've got the redundant things taken care of, we will need to decide where to place the art and other display items, although I suspect this may need to wait until Austin's return from his conference, which takes him back to San Francisco next week. I wish I could join him, but there is too much to do around here in the waning days of summer- the house and yards have been neglected by Summer, Parts One and Two, and I also need to visit the doctor, the dentist, the physiotherapist, and a few friends before heading back to the classroom in two weeks. The house also needs a top-to-bottom cleaning as well as a huge organisational overhaul, and this must be done before I go back to work.




Whiskey was moping around all day today, looking for Autumn and Antoinette to return from wherever they went this morning. He looks quite forlorn; as you can see from the Port Dover picture taken last weekend, he was quite attached to them and doesn't understand where they've gone. It's adorable, no? And my alpha-cat Dalziel is also wondering where the "meat lady" went and does not seem pleased at all that there are only vegetarians left in the house.