OK, it’s time for an update on my doings…
SPANISH LESSONS
I’m progressing with my Spansh lessons day to day. I listen to two disks per day (there are 60 total, I believe) and do all of the exercises therein. So far, I’m doing very well, but we’re just into the basics right now, which I learned once years ago, so I’m getting up to speed on those pretty fast.
I’m running into new vocabulary that I have to more or less memorize, but the book offers a short story to translate to help me along with those. The last one threw me for quite a loop because there were a slew of new words I had never learned before. The short story accompanying the new words was about housekeeping/housework, so the words are important: I will be using them, I reckon!
GENIUS SCAN
I was able to preserve two more volumes of my journals before Genius Scan stopped exporting again, so I’m working with them to get the bug(s) fixed. One error message I get is that the Internet appears to be down. (It was at one point but is no longer down, and the error message remains.) The other is that Genius Scan isn’t connecting to my Dropbx account. The creators of the app are working on finding solutions to those issues. I hope they resolve them soon so I can continue to preserve the journals that remain. There are a slew of them and I’d like to do ten per day.
WEEKLY SATURDAY GARAGE SALES
Since I advertised my garage sales on craigslist, I am getting a slew of visitors every Saturday from noon to 3 p.m. Many of those who attend are fanatics about garage sales; they miss them during the winter, so they come in droves to the ones they do find. This is great, but it also means the turnout may be less during spring and summer because I will have a lot more competition. Several of the people who were here last week and bought stuff promised to be back and to keep watching the ad with the new photos.
I had to find a lot of additional items to add to the garage to replace the many things that I sold (or gave away) last weekend. I re-post the ad every week (it’s free to do that) with photos of the new stuff that’s available and people will reach out to via text to ask more (or for the prices) for various things they see listed there.
U-HAUL BOXES
I bought five heavy duty U-Haul boxes yesterday or the today before and took everything out of the two suitcases I had them in; the suitcases are too big to be carry-ons anymore; Alaska Airlines has reduced the size of the carry-ons they will allow since I bought my luggage eons ago. I got everything from both suitcaes into a single U-Haul box of the size that Alaska allows to be checked in. I did have to separate the very few copies of books I’m taking (books I wrote) to keep the weight from exceeding 50 pounds each, but the second box is still mostly empty, so I can put light stuff in it as I get closer to the move date.
I’ll put my CPU in one of the suitcases and wrap it in bubble wrap to protect it. I need to find a 20″ monitor at a thrift store that still works, since both of my present monitors won’t fit into a box or a suitcase.
STUFF I WILL SELL TOWARD THE END OF MY TIME HERE
I will sell my flatscreen TV, both monitors, all of the furniture Jackie doesn’t want, including the beautful massive cabinet and desk Dad made us eons ago. Losing those will hurt, because Dad invested so much time and love into them. I’m hoping a niece, nephew/grandniece/grandnephew want those! I’d like to keep them in the family. I know Dad would like that,too!
Dog and cat kennels, ferret habitat, various tables and office cubes… crockpot, roasting pans… just so much other stuff that I can’t take along.
NEED TO FIND A HOME FOR MY ANTIQUE CHINA and SILVER!
I have a table full of antique china that I need to find a home (or homes) for. The antique store I tried hasn’t found buyers for any of it, so I need to find some other way to get homes for it all. If all else fails, I can donate it, of course, to an antique or thrift store, but I was hoping to get something for it. It’s valuable. One silver teas set is worth $225 on ebay right now.
It’s hard to take a look around and actually SEE all that’s here to find homes for, but as the items go, more will disappear from my home and shed, and across time I will have found it all and offered it up.
STAR TREK/KELLEY GARAGE SALE WILL BE ENORMOUS
My StarTrek/DeForest Kelley garage sale will be ENORMOUS! I keep running across items I haven’t thought about in decades. Signed comic books, old fan club newsletters (what a hoot!), magazines, collector’s plates, DVDs, VHS tapes, action figures, my Walk of Fame jacket, the list goes on and on… That’s gonna be a fun one — (and nostalgic as all get out, too!
My Walk of Fame jacket — the “safe sex” jacket, for those of you who have read my book!
FREQUENT TRIPS TO PARKLAND THRIFT STORE & VALLEY LIQUIDATORS FOR GREENGRUB FOR MY LIVESTOCK
I frequently drive to the thrift store on 127th and to Valley Liquidators on Pacific Avenue looking for free and low-cost green grub for my two goats (who I also need to find homes for), my hens and me.
The thrift store on 127th usually has swiftly approaching pull date greens for free on their patio outside the store, so I go there first to get some of it. (I realize that folks down on their luck go there, too, so I don’t ever take much of it.) I also get a HUGE box of their apples when they have them, since they’re only $5.00. The goats and chickens and I eat those!
Then I drive to Valley Liquidators where I can get a huge box of green or almost ripe bananas for ten dollars. (The goats get those, a few every day. The hens dont’like them.) I also get lettuce, carrots and other produce there at remarkably low prices. I supplement the livestock this way because alfalfa (for the goats) is expensive and because the hen pen is denuded this time of year, and I need to keep them in plenty of greens until spring arrives and the pen recovers. If it doesn’t recover (because they’re such scavengers) I can continue to supplement them the way I have been for months now.
It’s all good!
