Progress where and as possible

I registered for the local Freecycle website the other day - going over a list Jerry had made a long time ago of website registrations, I noticed that one and decided to join myself.  This morning I saw someone in town had posted, asking if anyone had any coolers to give away, and I told her I had two big coolers with wheels, and ended up leaving them outside the back door for her.  She came and got them some time this evening.  They're exactly what she wanted, she e-mailed later and said, and Jerry and I won't be carrying lots of food to any more Sacred Harp conventions, which is what we got them for.  So I'm glad that worked out.  Two more things out of the basement.

Tomorrow morning a library volunteer is supposed to come by and pick up books.  I hope he'll take all of them, but some are probably of questionable quality for a "Friends of the Library" book sale.  When I asked him about quality, he said "Well, would you buy it? That's how I decide."  I have no idea.  Considering some of these books are things like Molière and Corneille in French and a Russian-to-French medical dictionary, I'm not sure anyone is going to want them no matter what condition they're in.

I spoke to one of the guys from the contractor today when he stopped by the shop: he'll come to the house on Friday.  I've been making a list of things that need doing - at least, the things I've noticed so far.  Maybe he'll see other things as well.

So I'm getting things done.  Today I cleaned off my bench at work for the first time in, well, forever.  Threw out old Post-it Notes (Jerry would write the name of each job on a Post-it and stick it on top of the pile of parts he was giving me to finish, and the Post-its usually ended up on the bench for no good reason), used-up sandpaper, organized edging sticks and wax sticks and markers, swept off years' worth of sanding dust.  And thought, when I was done, that Jerry will be so surprised to see how clean the bench is.