oct 8 2023

If all Gaul  is divided in three parts.... my belongings are divided in not too many more...... Faced with a trailer full of objects and containers removed very quickly from the main house. The object was to throw away the unnecessary and categorize the remaining paraphernalia into some order where I could find things stored in building #25.  How to divide this mess?? .

Like what???? First – of course... food/kitchen related... then health/med... daily general sheets to shoes...electronic.. and paperwork...that is all normal people....  ..to which I must add  animals..projects ---and tools/hardware.

With the help of one of those  3 yard bagg thngs from home depot... I now have I small building ( #25) full of things ready to be categorized into 8 parts...  electronics?  I can not throw away anything with  wires  or remotes...because I know I will eventually find whatever those wires go to..

 

Ok... 3 used golf balls?....  by themselves, very little value and could be trashed... there is a box full of 100s on the front porch of the house still...  .. except......there are times when I have wished for a used golf ball—like.... when the wind is blowing and I am standing in the donkey café watching the tarp on roof lifting to the extent  that the silly little grommets will allow, I am surrounded with hay string from the last feeding- and that grommet in the corner lets go.. now if I had a golf ball tided under the tarp with hay string,  that would hold against most any wind..but not having the golf ball, I stood there  with the handful of hay string totally incapable of stopping the rest of the grommets to pop off. Thus proving the value of anything is directly related to the distance where it might be needed. Of course it  might have a frequency factor in the equation...so in this particular case the need for a golf  ball as the center of a monkey fist I am making to send to a goldy warrier  happens more frequently than the windy tarp.. so I would toss the 3 golf balls in rope in the. “projects bucket”

 

Ok... so why would the small fry pan be paired with the scoop used for horse feed  ?  Whenever you go anywhere that you probably shouldn't oughta be--  like a nursing home with a donkey or even memorial drive walk way....   as we did last Sunday... There is always the question of picking up after them... to carry a bucket and shovel has absolutely no class whatsoever..  when my children were younger and more fleet of foot.. and we had donkeys in some hotel ballroom or another ----I had them carry a small stainless steel shiny bucket filled with carrots with the long green sticking out the top and if it looked like a donkey was going to move their bowels you just dumped the carrots on the floor and caught whatever came out----- that worked very nicely---- but on memorial drive last Sunday I realized our poo pickers were not quite big enough for a mini donkey ..  but almost..   and I wished I had one of the feed scoops we use for horses which had a flat side --which in that particular situation would have enabled someone to scoop and fling it into the bushes and it would not be quite so obvious just hanging off the donkeys pack saddle.   so to pair that scoop with a small frying pan would mean that if we were to go into a senior residence  we could make better use of our poo pickers with that scoop...  while using the small fry pan to feed the donkey and amuse the people...

So the usefulness becomes a factor of it’s association with other items.  Like the  golf ball needs  string in that case......

 

experience has allowed me to evaluate these odd  associations.. which on the surface look pretty stupid to the rest of the world...

someone else said “experience comes from bad experiences...”.....

 Boy do I know that !