|| 31 october 2014

Happy Halloween

Your usual Thursday Nouvelles arrives a day late. Yesterday was complicated.

Sometimes things do not go as planned. (Including this post. I will try to fix the photo display width problem as soon as I have time.)

Yesterday the schedule called for gathering the four black kittens and a big orange pumpkin I bought and taking some cute kittens with the pumpkin Halloween photos. The kittens weren’t interested. Little Toro did come close enough to check out (briefly) the big orange thing.

But you tell from the expression on Sam’s face he was not impressed. “This is NOT catfood,” he seems to be saying. The other kittens ignored the pumpkin.

Once I gave up on the photo session, the next project was to write a Thursday Nouvelles. But I was distracted when I discovered that sometime during the night someone had made away with a section of my back privacy fence. This morning there was just an empty space where it had been when I walked through the backyard the previous evening to take trash to the dumpster. Bizarre.

Somehow yesterday my words never came together for a Nouvelles. Today I am much involved with the delivery to the recipients phase of my continuing decluttering project. Habitat for Humanity came and picked up their donations, but for the rest I am the delivery person.

I did finish reading Marie Kondo’s tidying book. Some of her general advice is very useful — and some of the finer points are really bad ideas. At least if you are American living a typical American lifestyle. For example: Throw away your warranties and purchase receipts. Not if you want to get any refund for a defective item.

I plan to share more on the KonMari method on Sunday.

Happy Halloween. And if you happen to see a weathered 10-foot section of 8-foot high cedar privacy fence ferried through the night sky by ghosts and goblins, it is probably mine.

be chic, stay slim — Anne Barone

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