June 13 – 16, Island Compulsiveness

While here I have:

• Never gotten to bed before 11, usually not before 1am.
• Vacuumed the house, twice.
• Weed whacked for hours.
• Watered plants, twice.
• Washed all the curtains in the house. The smoke stains remain, but they no longer smell.
• Edited mom’s vast magazine collection, ruthlessly.
• Started working on my dad’s dark room office.
• Cleaned the shed. A monumental task which created,
• 200 pounds of garbage to go along with,
• 40 pounds of recycling.
• Went to the dump.
• The truck has approximately 50 pounds of toxic wastes in its bed, which I will drop of on the mainland.
• Took donation items to a local charity, twice.
• Swept rat poop out of the trailer and one of the barns.
• Then set rat traps.
• Ace Hardware provided, for a price, the following, which I deployed:
• Two brooms.
• A Webster, which is now filthy.
• Electric timers for lamps.
• LED bulbs for said lamps.
• Heavy duty de-greaser. This because I looked at the top of the kitchen cabinets. They are black. Will address this on my next trip, but no wonder the place smells.
• Laundry detergent.
• Pledge.
• Batteries.
• Rat traps…
• Took myself out to lunch.
• Visited with 8 wonderful people. 

I leave tomorrow morning, and am bringing back:

• Mom’s Bose and CDs.
• Mom’s spring clothes.
• Mom’s jewelry and archery medals.
• A ceramic piece that’s more valuable than a house in certain parts of the country.
• My dad’s ashes.