Spring Cleaning?

I am happy to report that R is recovering nicely from his kidney stonectomy, or whatever the official name for the procedure is. He’s still not supposed to lift more than 10 lbs, but he’s not letting that stop him from getting back into the swing of things. After all, he is a homeowner and it is the time of year for winter clean up/spring cleaning. We have a bit of that to do ourselves. P is planning to have a garage sale in several weeks. We have over 20 years of accumulation stored in the nooks and crannies of this house. There are lots of treasures for other people. We just have to figure out how much all these things are worth, sentimental more so than dollar-wise. When you have a garage sale you have to get it into your head that all the stuff is already gone, that you don’t want to have to put it back in storage again. You’ve already said your goodbyes to it all, it’s time for it to go…

The experts have closed the commercial salmon season from Washington all the way to California. A combination of circumstances over the past several years has reduced the salmon runs to very low numbers. The cost of salmon it going to go sky high. I’m not sure exactly what the effect will be on the sport fishing season. I’m sure R has his finger on that pulse, and he can’t be happy about it. I think they’ve stopped salmon fishing in the Willamette and severely restricted catching native salmon in the lower Columbia. I’m not sure what the limits are for hatchery salmon. I’m sure we’ll find out soon.

It’s time to get on with the events of the day. Hopefully I can get the dog’s walk in before the rains start today. It has been grey and raining off and on all week. With luck this little dry spell will hold until we get done. There’s nothing like the smell of wet dog all day long.