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People, do your heirs a HUGE favor and throw your crap away as you go...if you haven't used it, worn it, or seen it in the last year, the odds are that you won't... please sell it, donate it, or trash it...just lose it.

Twenty-five years of "stuff" removal is wearing me out.

My parents were in their house in Houston 33 years, plus all my stuff was there. Neither my father nor I had ever passed a bookstore without going in, or ever thrown one away. They had traveled all over the world and brought back an enourmous amount of 'stuff' for their enourmous attic.

Then they decided to sell the house. To everyone's amazement, the house sold in 2 weeks instead of 6 months. We had 30 days to pack and move.

I disposed of most of the books, but kept 120 boxes full. Fortunately some of the larger souveniers like the bicycle rickshaw were already gone.
Bailing and hauling hay is less work.

Well, Babe, I tried greasing the pole and the wires where the birdfeeders were hanging with vaseline yesterday afternoon. No takers yesterday, but this moring I got up and looked out my kitchen window to see a befuddled looking squirrel shaking his paws. I'm guessing he tried to shimmy across the wire where the feeder was hanging above the patio. Then, later this afternoon, I saw one of them sizing up the pole in the yard with the two feeders on it. He took a flying leap and grabbed the pole and went spinning around till he let go. ROTFL! It was hilarious.

I also put up another squirrel feeder on the OTHER side of the yard filled with sunflower seeds and peanuts and corn. Put some more on the ground at the base of a couple of the trees too. For now, they seem content. I also got a package of that Squirrel-Away stuff that you use to treat the seeds. Haven't used it yet because the feeders are all full right now and you need to mix it ahead of time with several pounds of food. It won't do any good for the blocks of seed, but it should work with the open feeders. Surprisingly, the one feeder the squirrels haven't bothered is the finch feeder.

Bailing and hauling hay is less work.
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Amen!...but only because you don't stop and re-live all the memories with each bale of hay.

We will be upgrading to an assisted living facility by August 1, so the adventure known as life, continues for my father (and the rest of us.)