I was walking with a friend on the way back from SE Division and someone had left a few items, mostly wicker furniture, just off the curb behind a pickup. A guy came out of the house nearby and told us we could take what we wanted!
People are really generous about giving things away on the sidewalks in front of their homes here in Portland. This past year I've come across a wire basket for my garden tools, a bucket with a spout complete with a newish scrub brush, books from Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials series (that I happened to want to read very much just then), a bottle of high-end maple syrup, and a milk-glass IKEA table lamp. I almost forgot: a black and chartreuse Adidas backpack, clean and in excellent shape except for a small zipper that didn't work. I once found a vintage metal dollhouse in Laurelhurst but it wouldn't fit in my bike basket so I had to leave it behind. I try to only take things that are going to be really useful.
It's no secret that people got wild cleaning out their hovels during quarantine and I was no exception!
I forgot to mention in my last post that I've been making my bed every day this year so far. This is a boring detail, but I got the idea from a YouTube workout video. The person doing all the exercise had to make her bed each day as part of the routine to help change her mindset. It's not a bad concept!
Ok, enough practical jibber jabber for now. I've been watching some K-dramas and one of them is It's Okay to Not Be Okay:
It's great, but I'll be honest: I'm not rooting for their relationship yet. I think their chemistry is getting better and I like all of the characters as individuals, but I enjoy the parts with the main guy and his brother and best friend most. The slow burn in K-dramas is more intense and drawn-out than I'm used to, so I have hope for this entanglement. Plus, the episodes are LOOONNNG and there are 16 episodes, so there's a long way to go.
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