Powerwash and stain insides of east and west fences, weather permitting
Hang blind at back door
Humidifier downstairs for summer
Bleach bird-feeder
Purge old electronics (e.g., ScanMan, circa 1993)
Bake and freeze cookies
Review menu and shop
Clean before the 22nd:
Soonish: Wash and seal countertops, soak trash bins, sand bird's crates and playpen, stash (or mend!) mending, ashes from fireplace to compost, hose basement windowwells, dust and align books and other media, organize pantries, do the filing, tidy toolbench, clean fridges, organize under sinks, wash windowwells, scrub utility sink and counter, iron table linens, polish lamp, sweep garage, vacuum detritus from ceiling lamps.
One week: Clean doors and doorsills, check for spiderwebs, clean toaster and shelf of toast crumbs, dust alley dumpsters with baking soda, sweep and mop basement, polish lamp, clear study, refold linen cabinet. Make faux Nütella.
Three days: Scrub both staircases; vacuum, sweep, and mop upstairs; dust tv screen; vacuum upstairs upholstery; scrub downstairs upholstery; scrub buddy windowsills and shelves; beat or launder throw rugs; dust, in details and with Q-tips; hose birdcage mat; fill refillable bottles; trim or deadhead houseplants.
Two days: Launder guest linens, shop for groceries.
One day: Boil birdcage, vacuum upstairs, squeak hardwood floors, scrub bathrooms, make up guest bed, make salsa, clean vacuum cleaner.
Guest room: Towels, fresh air, sun-dried sheets, spare keys.
Garden
Stack kindling pile neatly; de-cherry-sprout and weed
Turn compost
Tumble olive stump
New clothesline
Change bait in yellowjacket traps
Replace mineral block in swamp cooler
Plant replacement willow-leaf sage
Mark dead branches of pear for winter removal
Get lots of vegetable pulp and coffee grounds (ongoing)
Errands
Target: Stepstool for kitchen, photograph album
Wild Bird Center: black-oil sunflower seed
Binders for scrapbook and instruction manuals
Find a teddy bear to sacrifice for Booboo's paws
Copy keys
C&B: plate
New bird cage?
Cardboard to recycling before 22nd
Stuff to Goodwill before 22nd
Artwork matted and framed
Lisaism
The Golden Compass, 6th: bake and cook
Pat's service, 12th
The Brothers Karamazov, 15th
Repair Sneetches before 24th
Mom and BDL, 22nd-28th
Egg's visit and salsa taste-off, 30th: make salsa
The Razor's Edge, 30th: bake
Reading:
James Agee, A Death in the Family
Paolo Coelho, The Alchemist
Margaret Drabble, The Red Queen
Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
Fyoder Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
John Leonard, Lonesome Rangers: Homeless Minds, Promised Lands, Fugitive Cultures
