…unlike the journey of 10,000 miles, does not begin with one step, but with a List. One of those hanging-fire for months lists where, when the weather is too hot and nasty to do anything else, means you’ve got to get
\n1. wire staples for weedcloth (sold out at 2 stores so far)
\n2. 2 short real rubber hoses, not the sort that kink and cut you off (shortest we could find was 50 feet)
\n3. 2 papers to sign at the bank (one we could do, but the other (Italian tax forms) our bank does not understand: we have been trying to get those signed for nearly 6 months, and it is going to require a trip to the main bank.
\n4. items to be returned (many: thank you Lowe’s for remembering everything you ever used a credit card on, no receipt necessary)
\n5. milk (we can only use one brand of actual milk: it’s the carb thing)
\n6. returning shoes that didn’t work (those curved stretchy ones) at the place where we get the milk
\n7. cat food, cat tuna flakes, and tubifex worms for the fish….
\n…we’re pooped!
\nWe ended up able to use one coupon for 15.00 (2 lbs coffee and some milk)…and we actually got unuseable items virtuously returned. We did not resist one more clematis. (My fault.)
\nOr the second try at the hoses, which turned up what we could have bought at Lowe’s, but decided we needed too badly.
\nTomorrow we have to do another of these runs and return a bunch of tile and buy more for the future bathroom tile project (replacing the hog-sized hole in our shower wall)—and the dreaded Costco run, which always leaves me wanting to sit down somewhere cold and allergy-free for a week; and the quest to TJ Maxx which is supposed to have some inexpensive tees Jane wants, because she needs them, actually.
\nAnd I need to get to the fish store, but that isn’t happening.
\nIf we can locate the packets of weedcloth staples we can secure this work we’ve already done under weedcloth and mulch, read: quasi-finished, except for plantings! which I do want to do. I applied Preen (prevents seed\/weed germination) to the whole front lawn yesterday.
\nEither we find the staples or I go on looking for some store that isn’t sold out of them. I have 3 smaller candidates where we can look.
\nMeanwhile, work goes on with Cajeiri’s scene, and Jane so wants to get to her own writing…
\nBut we’re making progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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