Called my sister this morning to get talked down from my panic. The well people finally showed up yesterday to work in bitter cold and wind, took the tank out, left to get a part, came back, discovered that wasn't the part with the hole after all, but the part that fits into it, which they might have at the shop, which cannot be bought anywhere. So I am without water til they fix it. They will be back today but I have got to make the big grocery run, so they will have to let themselves in.

On the good news front, after I swept/scooped 10 gallons of sand and dirt off the porch this week, it looks like yesterday's drifts will be the last, because it rained last night. And it should be picture perfect and calm tomorrow.

Way too much to do before guests arrive tomorrow late afternoon, and I am so stressed I can't even think clearly about who to ask to help with what, when. Maybe I can ponder it on the drive to town this morning.

Technology is not helping; I set up the order, then "normalized" the playlist volume for the party and the (*^)&*( software erased 12 song titles, and still not sure if it will write to a thumb for me. Then, got the laptop to send a 'mirror' image to the big monitor so people can see words to songs they will be presenting, but everything is totally out of whack size-wise, so that'll be an hour's tweaking. Stuff like that. Wishing for simpler days at this point, because at least the old CD player worked then, and if you told a computer what size monitor you had, it grasped it.

But, I have corned beef, rye, and cabbages to buy asap, so off I go!!