Cleaning Out
In the last 2 1/2 months, I have spent a lot of time cleaning, organizing, and pitching. First it was a rental property renovation and cleaning. Then it was time to prepare for a cross-country move (we pay movers by the pound so it was time to lose some weight!) and get our house listed for sale (for which the house must be nearly empty and staged like a showplace). This morning, I realized that I hadn't dumped the pictures from my phone since early this summer when I left for Arizona to see Patrick. So, today I am filtering through a whole summer of photos from Welcome to [state name here] signs as I criss-crossed the country, to garage sale items that I wanted to give away or sell, to knitting projects, and pictures captured to remind me of one thing or another (like a recipe from my Aunt Diana, a photo of a knitting pattern I'd like to try). Mixed in with all these random snapshots of my last six months was a screenshot of a text conversation I had with Katherine about a