Spring Cleaning!

It’s been a quiet week in the neighborhood. I didn’t have any reason or excuse to take any part of Friday off and so worked a full five days this week. It was the first time in a long time. I fully expected to be contacted by the Red Cross for a platelet donation but then I guess they didn’t because it was Good Friday. It was also the first full day of spring and J S Bach’s birthday (323rd). I hope you celebrated all appropriately. There’s nothing like some Brandenburg Concerto in the morning to rev up your day.

The Spring Chinook Salmon season starts Monday on the Columbia River, for TWO weeks. That gives you some indication on how bad the runs are. The poor conditions for the past several years in a row are having a big impact on the number of fish returning this year, which in turn will affect the runs several years from now. It’s a viscous circle. Next week is Spring Break around here, so there are already a number of people taking off work. I expect that more than a few of them will find time to go down to the river and “wet a line”. R is still recovering from his surgery and is not suppose to lift more than 10 lbs which means he can’t take his boat out. He still has a couple of weeks before the tube comes out. Just thinking about that gives me the willies.

We are planning to do some(more) spring cleaning this weekend. There is a garage sale in our near future. The question is becoming where to stage the stuff for the garage sale while we clean up everything else. We recently received a large recycle bin from the garbage company. It couldn’t have come at a better time. We’ve been filling it with the years of stuff saved in the filing cabinet: manuals and paper work for toasters and lawn mowers and VHS players and old computers and what all that broke or was donated to some good cause years ago. We’ve been running the paper shredder a lot too. The ultimate purpose of all this is to clean out so we can downsize. This house is a lot of room for the two of us. There is just too much room for the dogs to mess up, that we have to constantly clean up. The cleaning up won’t change, it just would be nice if it was contained to a smaller area. I know, I know… good luck with that!