So cleaning- mostly the basement- has basically helped me find a heck of a lot of our tools and battery chargers. The ones I can’t find either parts or no longer work have been disassembled and had the internal batteries removed. (The county does offer repair clinics, but those are usually too far away from me.). I’ll drop off the batteries and other hazardous waste at a collection happening in my neighborhood about two weeks from now.

We have a donation table in the neighborhood for clothes and other items that I’ve been leaving items at pretty much all summer. About the only items I’ve taken are a hockey book I haven’t read yet and a Chicago Bears daily calendar from 1990(? I haven’t seen it a while. Maybe Mom tossed it?). Most of the cleaning I’ve done in the garage so far has been sorting through tools and I haven’t done much in any other room since April.

I’ve joined a challenge that runs throughout August to stop food waste in my county and two neighboring ones. Depending on the weather, I’ll relocate some day lilies away from the air conditioner.