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Timing is everything - household jobs edition
September is always a schizophrenic weather month, in like summer, out like fall, and here in the Midwest the changeover can be sudden. Last week you needed the ceiling fan on one night, and the next night it was 45F and you had a cat snuggling in bed with you. Except for late August and early September temperatures around here were pretty reasonable this year, so reasonable there was little need of the AC. As a result TPP got the window screens installed on the south end of the sun room, and then a distraction occurred of some nature, so he never got the screens in the north windows, although there is a screen door there. So for 3.5 months those two window screens have leaned against the wall a testament to procrastination and distraction. Each time TPP spied them launched a very brief self-recrimination that was quickly squelched by good mental health, and then forgotten until the next time they were noticed. Now comes the realization that it didn't matter. The screens now can be returned to the garage attic until next summer, a quite happy thought, and then brought out again with all the best intentions. The sun room needs to be warmed up because several tropical plants want to come inside; 45F is a temperature they don't like. Although it doesn't damage them, some of them metabolically shut down for a spell. The bonsai figs are very tough plants and don't seem to mind a bit so they can stay outside for a bit longer.
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The journey from one month to the next, from one season to another is special. the temperature and the amount of rainfall, the fact that the screens were not all up will not be the thing we think about in five or ten years.
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