I am so envious of my friends here and my friends out there in the blog-us-fear who manage to organize closets and drawers and even garages during this evil Pandemic.
How clever you are to use your time away from society so wisely.
I must say I think about organizing things.
I have thought about the closet now for at least four months. In fact, I stand in it every day and assess the situation. There are the shoes in haphazard piles and the winter clothes still not packed away.
It’s almost winter again anyway right? I have forgotten since I do not frequent the stores anymore who used to let me know about the changing seasons.
Oh yes, there was a catalog reminding about Halloween.
Is it Halloween yet?
I think about all our 40 Photo albums too.
There is a whole big cabinet dedicated to the old non-digital touchy-feely photographs collected over my own lifetime and the lifetimes of my parents and Bill’s siblings who have all since passed. There are many shots of roads or trees or other unidentified scenery. And lots of unrecognizable people and many with no dates.
My inherent need to organize draws me to that cabinet over and over again but I never open the doors. The job is simply too overwhelming to contemplate.
I also think about the garage alot. I have to go through the garage to take Elsa-the-dog for a walk and we pause en route so I can think about how to organize things.
There are all those leaves that blew in last Autumn and maybe I should get the leaf blower out and take care of that first.
But then there are all those loose things and tools we never use anymore, and rusty stuff. Maybe we should look into renting a big rubbish bin. Never mind, “Come on Elsa. Let’s go this way.” And off we go out of the garage.
Uh oh! I find myself out in the green green world. But the green is not always well manicured lawns. The green is really enormous weeds that have taken over every flower bed and the gravel driveway. If I think too much about the work to be done in my green green world, I tend to hurry home with Elsa after she has done her bit to fertilize the earth.
Virginia Views 