the first purge is the hardest

I wanted to provide evidence that I am purging. E. took pictures for the first purge, but she objected that this didn't count for MY purge because she had already started this project. I pointed out that these books obviously hadn't been purged and I had actually done the final sort. So there was controversy. We resolved it by working together on it. I loaded the bag and E. took pictures. the_neecer, you once said you wanted me to give you any discards from my library. You'll have to visit more often if you want that wish to come true! But I don't purge books that often because that's the hardest, so...

We also had a discussion about a crap exchange rate because while we may be getting rid of
some books when that bag comes out at the hospital tomorrow, I did bring in more crap yesterday from Costco. I don't think food should count but I bought E. an airplane book and I got a new insulated lunch bag and some bowls to take my food in.

Has anyone else had the crap exchange rate discussion? What have you come up with?

We kept at it and managed to fill the bag. You can see something has to be done! Lucky I bought those giant shopping bags from Costco last winter!

You can see here that we loaded the bag into Paloma's trunk. There is another conversation. Should we call this new beetle Ruby or Paloma?

By the way, I'm getting better mileage with the Beetle, but driving more because it's so dang fun!

Here Xena Warrior Princess Pup models the empty table for us. You can see she's quite demure about it.

So one tiny surface is now empty.

Yes, that's a book on the sliding keyboard platform, but that belongs to our riding instructor, so we can't purge that to the hospital.

Yes, that's a real dog. You'll recognize her baby picture here.

Well, now I'm inspired.