Tuesday Tidbits

• I got up early today so that I could meet with someone who is interested in buying my blue cruiser bike.  It was a rough morning.  I didn't sleep well last night so I've been dragging all day.  She was going to think about it.  I'm crossing my fingers it sells.  I don't use it and we could use more elbow room in the garage.  

• I found someone to buy my recurve bow.  So there's that.  Slowly weeding my way through all of the stuff that I no longer use and don't much care to keep around.  I also have a buyer for my hunk of junk mountain bike.

• I've filled another two tubs worth of garage sale stuff.  And have a whole car load of stuff to take to recycling.  Bags of shredded paper, office paper, and boxes.  Progress!

• The blue room is slowly getting emptied.  I'm also trying to organize my office so stuff from the blue room that will eventually get filed in the office can fit in the office until I get furniture.  I pretty much know what I want at this point so I just have to wait a while.

• I set out more mouse traps today.  Eight more.  Ten total.  I'll make the rounds in the morning and see how I faired.  I don't know exactly where they making camp around here so I'm winging it until I start catching some.  I haven't seen any since my baby mouse incident a week ago.  But I know they are still around.  It's too darn cold out for them to just disappear.

• I thought our new leaf blower/vacuum was broken.  Before I set out to return it to Home Depot, I tried it with a different extension cord on a different plug.  Wouldn't you know, it worked!!  So now I'm perplexed as to why it wouldn't work for me the other day.  Maybe it was the universe's way of telling me to do more squats.  My hamstrings are still killing me from all the squatting to get handfuls of leaves.  Three hours of raking and bagging.  And you'd never know it by looking at the back yard.  And the front yard too.  It's a nice problem to have.

• I spent most of the day cleaning - this house is huge.  And I only got part of what needed to get done.  The tub and my bathroom sink are clean!  And I did a whole lot of vacuuming.