Two Weeks Gone

I just returned from the San Francisco Bay Area where my daughter and her husband have just moved, and also I incorporated a three day trip to visit my friend Kay in Napa Valley. Two weeks is a long time on one hand and not long on the other. I was ready to see my husband but I was really enjoying my trip out there.

At my daughter's house which by the way is a nice townhouse in Alameda, we worked like mad trying to get as much together before I returned home. They are coming from a much larger home in Oregon and have basically been living in one part of that house as they lived there only for a year. So they were doing some huge purging and we proceeded to organize things that hadn't been organized in a couple of moves. We found photographs in several places and consolidated them in to one large foot locker for them to go through later. This we did with several things. We all thought we could get them moved in in a few days but after organizing and getting rid of yet more things, when I left two weeks later, we still weren't finished. Parts of the place look great, though.

I have jet lag. It is only two hours time difference but I am having quite a time adjusting. It is 9:00 and I have only been up an hour. But yesterday was much worse. I was a zombie until about 4:00 yesterday afternoon. I really have to get back to work.

I saw many things in California that I want to incorporate in to my business and even my life. In the Bay Area they are very serious about recycling. They have three bins to sort your refuse in to. They kind of force you in to recycling because the catch all bin is the same size as the two other recycling bins. Pretty ingenious I would say. I would like to educate people about conservation and recycling or just about being responsible with our resources. That is a passion of mine. It has been since living in Italy, but now it is socially acceptable to be that way. Before people just thought I was cheap.

Time to get back to the routine.