Old Family Photos

 When I entered the book I finished yesterday onto my Goodreads account I looked down at some of the books I've read.  One title drew my attention: Goodbye, Things by Fumio Sasaki.  I decided to listen to it again.  The author of this book is more of a minimalist than I am trying to be.  However, already listening to this is helping me as I rethink some of the things I have decided to keep.  Right now, as I downsize, the goal is to get the things I have to fit into my space or go away.  After that is done will be the time to go through it all again and cut down on things even more.  Not that I want to be a minimalist, but I have no need to be a maximist.  Other things today that helped me be happy:

• Right now, the rest of the house is asleep or trying to be.  There is the sound of Dolly Parton coming from Gideon's room.  This is new, him listening to music to help him sleep.  It seems nice to me at the moment.
• I took another block of time to work in the yard today.  This time I put on bandages where my thumbs normally blister to protect them from a blister on top of a blister.  It seemed to work.
• The box I went through today had some old pictures in it.

The boy with "Kitty" is my Great-Uncle Bernard.
The girl behind him is my grandmother.
I can only assume that the woman in the door is my great-grandmother,
that person wasn't listed on the back.

Pretty sure this is my great-grandmother.
If not, I think it would be her mother.
I'm forgetting names and that bothers me.

This is my grandmother on her,
"1st ascent Mt Chocorua."
I have no idea what she is sitting on!

Great-Aunt Marjorie, my grandmother and Great-Uncle Bernard.

Great-Uncle Bernard.

• Keziah and I picked her van up at the garage today.  It is fixed.  
• Some of the seeds that I planted in one of the milk jug greenhouses are sprouting.  I was almost ready to give up.  I need to remember to water them tomorrow.

Itty bitty leaves poking through.

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Currently listening to: Goodbye, Things, by Fumio Sasaki.

Stay safe.

Old Photos

 It is late.  In an attempt to both stay awake and make this short, I am using my standing desk.  For the next few weeks we have an additional person in our home pod.  Seven people seems like so many even though it is just one more than six.  In a few weeks Bel, Folke and this new person (I'll figure out a name for them when I am more awake) will leave and our pod here will be four people.  For now, I am happy to have so many people nearby.  Other things I am happy about:

• In the downsizing news I went through two boxes today!  They were mostly clothes and most of them are going to be finding a new home.
• Bel and Winston the cat were adorable this morning rubbing heads together.  Unfortunately I pulled the camera out too late.

• Soon after we got the cats a cardboard tower was made for them.  Parts of the tower started to fall today, with Winston inside.  Thankfully Keziah was quick and there was no harm to the cats or people.  The top bridge of the tower is now a floor toy and Keziah is planning out the next great cat playground.  The cardboard lasted longer than expected.

The tower bridge no longer bridges over a doorway.

• I re-found some old pictures today.  At some point I will look through my genealogy things to learn how some of the folks are related.  I know my great-grandparents are part of the group.  

The couple to the left, standing is John- sitting Nellie, 
are my great-grandparents
(unless I am off by a generation). 

The woman in the back in this picture 
is the same person as the one standing in the other.

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Today all I made time to read was a calendar that highlighted twelve saints and some works of art that represented them.

Stay safe.