I took these pictures late last year.
Not so much for documentation but because we do shift things around from time to time, it's always pleasant to see where we're at and what's been added or what's been taken away.
It was my thought that we would have less stuff as time went by.
Somehow it feels like we've accumulated a wee bit more.
It's a good thing that those stuff we've accumulated aren't redundant or useless but have a meaning and a purpose, no matter how insignificant and small they might appear to be.
I don't know when exactly it was that we started placing towels and clothes on this bench on the upper landing of the staircase.
Maybe it was when we began laundering the towels and so took out new ones and found that we had no place to keep the collection of both the old and new.
And maybe it was when we were sorting out the clothes that we decided to separate the whites and blacks from the colors and so ended up dumping them on the very same bench upstairs.
The cushions have since been moved to the balcony downstairs however where they sit on top of a shelf that houses some random things we don't particularly need.
The builder's yard still looks the same, albeit with more bird droppings and weeds growing at the oddest parts of the place.
It's funny, months ago there had been a tiny bit of weed growing out from this place between the tiles.
Later the weed died, and I had thought that was it.
But in recent days (of writing this post) I've discovered a few interesting weeds growing close to the drainpipe hole (goodness knows how the mud and all got there) and there's another one growing by the shelves right at the back, complete with leaves and all.
It is the weed growing at the shelves that's taken me by surprise.
Mind, that area's a sheltered space of an odd corner, blocked somewhat from light, from rain and from the general elements of nature that are meant to help plants grow.
Yet it grows.
I don't know what to think.
So I just leave it there.
Other areas of the house have more or less remained the same.
The bikes we brought into the house because of a circular by the building management, the drying towel we've since changed to a thinner one, these two little stuffies are still by the window, and maybe the largest change has been to the toilet.
There's nothing I can do about the box- it has to be elevated, thanks no thanks to a pipe situation that happened earlier this year- but I guess I can sort out some of the boxes and pile them up so that there'll be more space rather than what it looks like now.
Perhaps I am of the mind that things need to be decluttered.
Then again, resources are things we always need, and we never know just when we might need a box or two or otherwise.
So, yeah, let's just wait and see.