Charmion, I've watched a lot of This Old House and Ask This Old House episodes, I feel sure you'll be set when the carpenter gets the right waterproofing insulating product installed there. It sounds like the kind of question they get regularly.

Don asked about the dust. It has been dry and windy here; yesterday my allergies kicked in. The worst of it was for people out in the wide-open spaces, especially drivers on West Texas highways.

Good work with the letters and boxes, Keb. I also have a lot of letters I should toss, I haven't looked at them in ages. It's nice to have a sample of a loved-ones' handwriting, but I don't need every card they ever sent. Too dry now for burning them now, but maybe I can send them to a shredder at an Earth Day event this year.

It took the Amazon vendor almost two weeks to deliver the small digital camera, and after a test run I think it will work for taking photos at any political events while my phone stays safely tucked away. (Related - I have a couple of things on my shopping list that I've searched for from local stores instead of buying on Amazon since this is the last day of the boycott. I need a larger-capacity SDXC card and the one I am testing now will be a spare.) I'm finally seeing some political meetings scheduled in my county.