August is Slipping Away!

Good morning and Happy Monday. It's the start of a new week, and on Sunday, we'll be at the Renaissance Festival for opening weekend. DH and I worked on the house yesterday, he had a bug up his ass to clean the craft room. As usual, my loom was an item of contention, but I returned it to the place it had resided before I had started to work on it again, and it seems happy there. I'm not 100% pleased to have it off my work desk, but it does allow me to clean and put away the materials that have gathered there since I put the loom up more than two years ago. (It's a VERY slow project!). 

I try to be very conscious about keeping trash minimal 
and recycling as much as possible. I know I'm not as 
good as many people, but I'm pretty consistent. 

I cut up a bunch of boxes. It's a good thing this is a recycling pickup week because I'll JUST (maybe) have room for my kitchen recycling bag to go into the bin before wheeling it to the curb on Wednesday morning. This week I have to concentrate on two things - working on the website for DH, and getting Sharon's room habitable once again. I doubt she'd like to share her bed with my Mom's dresses and their rack, so those need to get moved. 

Although I do the traditional "Spring Cleaning", the end 
of summer "Fall Cleaning" that I do is always my major 
annual clean. In part it's because Sharon is visiting and 
I want a clean house for a guest, but I also like having a 
clean house every now and again before we mess it all 
up again. 

I have a bit of time before Sharon gets here. I've done a lot of cleaning, but there's still quite a bit more that should be done. Some people do Spring Cleaning. I do some, of course. The dirt of winter needs to be pushed out of the house, and I do. But my major clean is always my Fall Cleaning for when Sharon comes to visit. It's my opportunity to do a deep clean on my house, and I take full advantage of it. 

Zahn McClarnon, Hunkpapa Sioux, plays the main 
character, Joe Leaphorn, in "Dark Winds". He's a 
good looking man, and an excellent actor, but he's 
not Navajo. He just looks wrong for the part. Those 
of you familiar with "Longmire" may recognize 
him from that. 

DH and I finished the night off by watching an episode of "Lewis" and then "Dark Winds". DH and I both enjoy Tony Hillerman books - DH is a bit obsessed, rather like I am with Tolkien. I hadn't watched the show before. DH was complaining about having a Lakota as the star - acting as a Navajo, and I admit, I have to agree. That's just really poor casting. They film the show in the Four Corners area, and I guarantee there would have been several excellent Navajo actors who could have played that role. Instead, they're all over the nation with tribes. The main character is Lakota, the secondary sidekick character is Kiowa. At least they have a lot of Navajo extras, and it was a lot of fun to hear the Navajo language again. It's a unique language, extremely complex and difficult to learn, which, when combined with their complex kinship system, sets the Navajo aside and apart from any other tribes. 

So, it was a relatively good day. I know we'll be regretting going to Renaissance on Sunday when we would much rather stay home, have a nice breakfast, and continue housecleaning. We'll see, but I suspect we'll be heading to Ren. It's tradition, LOL. Have an excellent Monday and I'll be back tomorrow.