Conquered Hurdles and a Frenzy of Wild Beasties

The estate sale that Ms. B. and I held this weekend is now done, and though westill have a passel of leftover stuff, we moved a decent quantity and made arespectable few bucks in the process. For me, it���s been a full week of both DIYhome restoration/upgrading and prepping for the sale ��� 12 to 15 hours a day���andin the words of our perpetually fatigued felines, I haz a tired.

Mycrowning achievement for all this, I believe, has been categorizing andorganizing ALL my old books, magazines, CDs, DVDs, and LPs and putting them onreasonably respectable display. This little chore been on the docket for yearsupon years, but I had pretty much reconciled myself to not living long enough tocomplete it. The books, as you might expect for a writer/avid reader, proved thebiggest challenge, simply because of their sheer number. A few years back, I haddownsized the book department to a considerable degree, but that was kind oflike emptying a few buckets of water from an Olympic-sized swimming pool.

Yesterday,after the estate sale,  Ms. B. and I provided pizza as well as a variety ofmunchies and adult beverages for friends Terry, Beth, Bob, Yvonne, and Samaire,plus my daughter Allison. The weather was decent, so we made it an outdoorparty, which may have prompted our neighbors to wonder whether a gaggle of wildbeasties had somehow taken over the property.

Happily, the sale ��� andsubsequent celebration ��� marked the successful conquering of several of our mostdaunting hurdles. There���s more to come, to be sure, but at this point, it feelslike we���re getting closer and closer to seeing the downhill run to the finishline... whatever the hell the finish line ends up being.

Laters! A feeding frenzy of wild beasties! Allison, Old Dude, Samaire, Beth, Terry, Bob, Yvonne