late Sunday night

Dragon Mood? -- tired, but good tired

S and I worked very hard today; her on the yard, me on the inside of the house.

She cut back a lot of the dead stuff from winter; mums, hydrangeas, sedum, grasses. She also trimmed a mountain of ivy off of the little parking pad and cleaned it in preparation for moving the camper back on the pad. We even talked about maybe going camping this summer.

She also blew all the pine needles, cones, dirt and detritus off the front driveway. Then she did the same thing on the decks in the back. I swear there must have been twenty pounds of pine needles! She brought all our favorite green plastic Adirondack chairs out of their winter hibernation and placed them around the decks. We also talked about her building us a big, heavy wooden picnic table for permanent placement on the smaller, lower deck. Wouldn't that be a great place to gather, drink and play euchre in the summertime?

I moved furniture around in our 'fireplace' room primarily to move the cabinet where the computer, this computer, resides. It is now sitting adjacent to the double patio doors that lead out to the screened-in porch. I'm within reach of the hanging wine bottles, if that tells you anything!

The still-slightly-new china cabinet is now where the Heads Smashed-In Buffalo Jump poster used to be, and Heads Smashed-In is now where the china cabinet was previously. The green wicker armchairs flank the china cabinet. The sofa table is back where it used to be, posing as a foyer table.

Overall, I'm pleased with the furniture arrangement; it feels more functional. More importantly, Madame S is pleased. She likes the arrangement, the 'feel' of it and the lack of claustrophobic-ness.

I gathered old magazines, a whole grocery bag of them, which I will transport to the pied-a-terre, and then to the recycling bin. I found an unused can light used for highlighting plants and artwork, that sort of thing; I'm taking that also to the pied-a-terre to spotlight our new nuclear coral foyer; it thrums with energy! It really is that intense!

I washed rag rugs, four of them, shuffled and re-arranged dried and silk plant arrangements, cleaned out bags and baskets and folders and pots and all other manner of stuff-holding receptacles. I vacuumed the floors, the carpets, mopped the bathroom floor, scrubbed a variety of marks off the walls, hung a few pieces of art and .... I'm still not done. It will have to wait until next weekend! Whew!

But the house feels clean, wonderfully clean and revitalized. It's like everything is sitting up, looking around at its new location and spiffed-up status and saying, "Yeah, this feels good!"