Very Slow Progress

Yesterday came close to 70 degrees in the city, so it was reported - by those not in all day organizing and cleaning.  A little taste of Spring.  But still not Springy enough.  Tomorrow morning threatens a wind chill of 15 degrees.  The optimistically purchased geraniums will have to wait inside longer.

99 cent geraniums purchased after viewing the Hicks annual flower show.   Too cold to move them outside.  But the apparently dead mandevilla planter moved out.  Her sister planters with leggy growth moved from the guest room to the livingroom window sills.  The Thai lime was moved from the guest room to an end table in the livingroom, the Christmas cacti moved back to the livingroom console

Given the slow progress toward Spring, the inspiration to clean is not strong.  Cleaning is a challenge, not at all fun, mundane and unstimulating.  Is it no wonder the maintenance is so tedious, and the chore so easily allowed to fall by the wayside?  No, no wonder at all.

Structural changes and updates, tangentially related to the impending arrival of the house guests (by allowing for clutter to be better hidden, and the clutter of partially finished projects to finally be put up or away), are far more fun.

Simple paper towel holder, purchased many weeks ago, mounted to closet door to easily hang casual items for multiple occasional wearings.

Simple toilet paper holder,  originally purchased to have the same function as the paper towel holder, mou red to serve as a stand-in for a valet.  Fits the bill perfectly,  cheaper and easier to find than one of those pullout or pull-down versions. 

Curtains, originally mounted the past November after an odd security incident, finally fully installed.  On completion, a different configuration might have been more pleasing, but this will do for now.

With the livingroom curtains finally installed, the guest room closet curtain that had been borrowed for the terrace door finally was returned to its rightful place - to the more important task of hiding LT Guest's remaining stored belongings.