1. I cleaned one notebook entirely for my friend to use (though I know she won't), and got the last one set up to use this year. I have some lists and schedules done, but have not yet printed them out.
2. I'm still waiting to get ink so I can print the calendar pages. Need to do that soon!
3. Oops. I actually forgot to do the "family values" exercise. Well, not so much to do anyway. My husband is so totally "bah-humbug" that it's no use talking to him about this. He tolerates anything I do ... as long as (1) NO lights in the den that interfere with TV, (2) NO lights on anything in the bedroom (even though that is the only window on the front of the house) or the front hall (in case he doesn't want to bother to shut the bedroom door), and (3)NOTHING that in anyway gets in his way or is inconvenient to his daily routine. I will, however, be able to include my son, daughter in law, and grandchildren in decorating the big tree (and maybe even some of the smaller ones) by waiting until Thanksgiving weekend for that.
4. I have multiple lists going on. They may not necessarily be the exact ones the exercise says to do, but they are the ones that work for me. I will probably continue to work on some of the lists ("spruce-ups", menus) during this week.
5. The gift shopping continues; I'm pretty sure I won't be sending cards again this year. I may go on and buy stamps .. "ust in case"!
6. The storm doors have been washed (but I got a Windex outdoor washing "system" and plan to go over them again today). The cement porch and the "public" side of the house ... the walls facing the pond garden ... have been power washed. The rug turned out not to be as bad as I thought, only one smallish corner damaged. We just turned it around, and the corner doesn't really show. All of the door mats were power washed; some will be replaced. While there may be more I *could* do, I'm basically pretty happy with how it looks now. The other side - "behind the lattice wall" is pretty awful. I'm waiting until another weekend, hopefully cooler, to tackle that. There's some big heavy stuff to be moved, so I just can't do that yet. It's at the far end of the porch, and not terribly noticeable for visitors (not that we get that many visitors anyway).
All in all, I'm reasonably satisfied with week 1, and ready to move on to week 2.
On the left side at the end of the plant bench, the difference in the "washed" and "unwashed" color of the cement shows.
The plants look nice with little solar lights in them now.
The neighbor's cat enjoyed watching all the activity. Or maybe she just enjoyed having company! :)
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