1. This afternoon, Saba napped contentedly in a beam of sunlight that fell across the foot of my unmade bed.
2. David and I each threw away 18 things today, a combined 36. Our total for all 18 days is 342 (171 each). Three hundred and forty-two things gone from the casita.
It's starting to feel less like a warehouse and more like a casita. We've only 12 more days until we finish our decuttering exercise, but from this point on, it only gets rougher. By day 30, we'll have tossed, recycled, or donated 465 things each, a combined 930 things gone. We have 588 thing to go. Our trump card is the closet, where we've been warehousing things for years.
We started out documenting the things we're purging, but that became somewhat onerous right around day 4, so we stopped. Now things just get sorted and tossed.
3. One of our larger house spiders caught a bit of prey early this morning on the wall above the wine rack. She wrapped up her prey and carried down to hide behind the cereal boxes to feed on it. (I discovered her when I took down the box of raisin bran to have a bowl for lunch.)
4. Oh, and this didn't happen today, but a few days ago: I happened upon a very large black jumping spider outside, patrolling the trunk of one of our potted cottonwood trees on the patio. It was enormous for a jumping spider and had vivid blue palps or fangs. It's the third large black jumping spider that I've seen on the patio. I love jumping spiders and hope they're finding lots of things to feed on and lots of other jumping spiders to mate with on our patio.
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| This is not that jumping spider, obviously. |
5. We had pizza for dinner, homemade with pizza dough we got in our CSA box. It had mozzarella, kalamata olives, red onions, green chile, and Italian sausage-style seitan on it. There was enough dough to make 2 medium pizzas, which means that there is enough pizza for lunch tomorrow.
6. I read a short speech given by Mark Twain in 1879 called Some Thoughts on the Science of Onanism. Hilarious!
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