Jaci Dawn

We have had some perfect weather here, and I am torn between finishing my decluttering/deep cleaning project (I only have three rooms left, and the stair well) and working in the yard. You know the yard is often my priority. I love my yard. 100×100′ of potential for native plants, insects, and bird habitat. But I also want to get my home decluttered and deep cleaned.

What a dilemma.

I gave in and worked in the yard for two or three days, edging flower beds and trying to get ahead of the persistent grass. I also took a few hours out of my Saturday to level rain barrel #1.

I just want to pause here, because I see it on Facebook all the time: it is *not* illegal to collect rain water in the State of Oregon. It is encouraged. I purchased this rain barrel through the county I live in. (The other rain barrel was a freebie when we got new rain gutters installed.)

I noted that the milkweed I planted last year that never grew tall enough to flower *has come up again* this year. I will have two milkweed plants this year (not counting what I will plant this year and hope to grow). This is very good! In a few years, I should be good to host Monarch butterflies and relive my youth.

I also worked a little inside the house. I still need to deep clean the hall way and I need to hang the photos of all my kids/grandkids there. I laid them out on the floor of the kitchen a month ago.

I do want to state here and now that photos from Instagram do not enlarge well. My children need to invest in a real camera. But I will take what I get. ;-P

Easter got put away and the corner of the landing has been rearranged. I’m probably very needy, posting photos of my home staging. (It’s really that I am just very visual.)

The glass mushroom was created by a fellow artisan and friend, Marjorie. I love it. Pewter unicorn – Goodwill for $1.99. Dill in his Treasure Trove – created by me.

Dragons hiding in the shrubbery – also created by me. This is Mom and her hatchlings.

This is: “I really don’t know how to display all this stuff/junk/collectibles”… I do want to hang the deer skull on the wall sometime, but what do I do with all the cast iron/mechanical/whatever trivial items?? Can’t part with.

I don’t know why I took this pic, except to highlight what I DO do with my available wall space. Everything I can. For the record, the saw is a painting of Old #40 on the Old Ely Ghost Train before it was wrecked. The hawk is by Frewin – and if I can ever google what it is worth…

Anyway, that’s just a visual of my life. I’m sore in a hundred places and tired in several more. It doesn’t seem like I’ve done that much, but I surely have.