Yeah? Maybe.

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I finished two loads of laundry, leaving one load to finish drying and the other in a basket... along with two other baskets from before.  Folding, sorting, storing?  Bleh.  Yeah, I'll get to it.  Since that was half of my domestic chores, I'm okay, I suppose.  I didn't go down until 4:00, waiting on the last load.  Still, I figured, getting the work out of the way might be helpful, since sleep wasn't easy last night.  The body is aching from the output.  Still, all good.

The goal, for today, is to finish the laundry and pack clothes.  Then get most things down and ready to be hauled out.  Finally, to do dishes.  It is a lot of work, and yet not.  Especially since it can be broken up into spots of work and parts of rest.  The goal is to be completely ready(tm*) to load the vehicle, minus coolers, by tomorrow evening.  If that can be done, some minor cleaning in the cave proper can happen, maybe, in the time after that.  Some of it will happen with rubbish and recycling being put out.  Perhaps more can happen Monday.  It may work out that trying to keep up on the cave, when prepping for a trip, will work better as an afterthought than as a part of the program.  I just have to suffer through having the cave look terrible for a while?  Yeah, maybe.

This is all turning out quite well.  It's not looking picture perfect.  I'm not sure it is possible to have two major concerns vying for my time, especially when both are so very complicated and intricate.  And... I'll never make for a good housekeeper.  Not in the best of times, definitely not in the worst or busiest of times.  Still, I actually suspect the cave will be left in better shape this time than ever before.  And that will only be impossible by ignoring it completely for a while.  Saturday, right?  Yeah!  I've got two days to really crack it all out, and a final day to do some last tricks, with even another partial day to finalize.  Plus, it's never over until it is over.  That's just the way it goes.

It is cool enough that I need to turn the furnace up, if I want to get things done.  As well, after a bit more waking time, I'll start the gig off with a shower and bath.  I'll miss those in Alaska, right up until I don't.  A weekly shower at a hotel/motel, but most sitz-baths and the occasional camp shower will have to do.  Should I go further into backcountry, all that may be available is swimming and sitz-baths.  All good.  Then again, camping, even this one, runs along those lines.  I am figuring 15 gallons of water will do for the week.  Use it sparingly, but do use it.  Later.