Project 60 Day 2

Alas! I thought I was going to have to struggle a bit to find 60 things to donate. Here I'm into Day 2 of my project and I've pretty much reached my goal. I went to work on the fabric in the garage, all clean and transformed. In just 2 hours I found 38 things from my stash to donate to the ASG yardage sale: 17 patterns and 21 pieces of fabric. The total yardage for today is 51 yards. Just like our other possessions that I gave away to family, I find it easy to donate fabric that will go to friends and people who will appreciate it. As friend Helen G. pointed out, I can always visit it again at the sale and can even buy it back if I miss it. I have decided to take a lesson from a marathon runner I met on Diamond Head a day before the Honolulu Marathon. He had run marathons in every state and had even started to run marathons on every continent, including Antarctica. I asked him what he was going to do once he met his goals. He said with no hesitation that he would just start all over again. That is what I'll do. Now that I've reached 60 things after only going through about 1/5th of my possessions, I will just keep going and see how many times I reach 60. There are 3 possessions that I do plan to take great care in donating--my mother's wedding dress, my wedding dress, and my great aunt's china cabinet. I will work with the Snohomish County Museum on those items.

I spent last night in the loft upstairs that had the only visible mite infestation. We have not seen any mites there at all, but they are hard to spot. I wanted to see if I would get bitten during the night. I did get 1 bite, which isn't too bad. I was hoping for none, though. I'm thinking that the second spraying of insecticide in 10 days is probably necessary, although I have reservations about using such products. I'm going to sleep on the lower level until after the second treatment. If there are still mites after that, then we need to consult again with the pest control expert. By the end of this month, I hope that our lives will be back to normal and that the loft will be useable. It should, in fact, be better than the first time I moved my things in. I am thinning down enough things to make it less cluttered.