1. Dogs (see previous post)

2. Dog hair (see #1)

3. Wisteria petals. We have deck attached to the kitchen that has arbor-like beams above with wisteria vines growing thick and high. It’s really pretty, smells great when it’s in bloom (which it was up until about a week ago), and makes it feel like the deck has a living roof. however, each beautiful purple spike is made up of probably 100+ tiny flowers. Thousands of flowers have been falling upon my deck. They end up in the house, tracked in by the combined 18 feet of the residents of our house, both human and canine. So you can be in the bathroom and look down and wonder if that’s a dried wisteria petal or a dead bug. It’s a fun game.

4. Books. My husband got me a Kindle for Christmas in the quaintly optimistic belief that it would reduce the number of paper-and-paste books in the house.

5. Napkins. My husband has the habit of eating or snacking while he watches television or reads. He’s good about grabbing a napkin, just in case anything spills. However, he never picks them up. I find napkins, both clean and dirty (I know, right?) lying all over the place.

6. Paper. Our five-year-old daughter is obsessed with paper. She paints and draws and makes cool three-dimensional objects and toys out of paper. One day a few months ago, I told her that if she didn’t want to take a nap then she had to play quietly in her room. Half an hour later she came out of her room with this birdhouse.