Good morning, somehow I think the weatherman has it wrong again.  It is already 3 degrees warmer than the predicted high for today!  Does that mean it will be substantially warmer for the trick or treaters?  Or are we still waiting for the temp., to plunge to the high?  I am so confused!  Well at least when it comes to listening to the weatherman.  My forecast, was for a nice cool evening for the kids.
  When my parents were young, before TV., if you were lucky, you had a radio.  One of the radio shows was "Fibber Magee and Molly"!  Now as I remember being told, they had this closet, that every thing, and any thing was thrown into.  Kinda like the junk drawer in the kitchen!  Well I have to admit, we sorta have one of those back door closets.  Now there wasn't much in the 'closet', as we had gone through it a couple of times already.
  My task yesterday was to empty the 'closet', and have it ready for painting.  Now for a normal person, this task should have taken approximately an hour, including the removal of the by-fold door, and it's hardware.  Now, I'm sorta like Mr. Magee, a bit slow and with distractions this is an all day project.  I could not believe what one could store in one tiny space.  Just like the science guy would say, "IT'S SIMPLY AMAZING".
  I found more tools to sort and clean, just to lazy to put things away the last time they were used?  Why, at least they are no longer missing and now are found.  Another few days worth of work of sorting, cleaning, and putting things away that I wasn't even planing on.  But what was really amazing, there was actually hats in the closet, can you imagine that?  Jackets and Hat's!!  Yes my "BOSTON BRUINS" official baseball style hat!  Then I remembered my hockey stick down stairs. (cleaning the deep freezer)  I think I should have a black golf shirt, possibly I could be a 'Bruins' hockey fan passing out the candy tonight.  This definitely would be a novelty with no NHL season in sight!
  Anyways, back to my closet, notice I said my closet.  I have become obsessed with this little space, it will no longer hold all the junk that one 'might' need one day.  It to has served it's purpose, and is getting downsized!  Those ultimate words, needs, wants.  Then the next set are, have we used it in the past year, will we miss it, can we pass it on, is it recyclable?  So unlike Mr. Magee, who always at the last second ended up throwing the whole lot back into the closet, our 'stuff 'will be put away properly, or find other uses.  Our 'closet' will have some jackets, hats and shoes for the season!  Oh happy days, just a good thought for Building the Simple life..............