Wow! Sounds like there might be another echo in a Mudcatter home. Those plants had to muffle a lot of sound.

I've come in to cool off for a few minutes and eat a juicy grapefruit; we broke 100 today. I've been moving slowly around outside, staying in the shade, puttering. Working on a new drip irrigation system (dropped a timer and broke off the spigot--no way to fix that, darnit. Had to get another timer, and settled for one like the old fashioned kitchen timer that ticks down the minutes, isn't electric or programmable.)

Before I went out this morning I did another pass over the central kitchen counter. I had removed a lot of stuff that didn't belong there, but then I looked at the stuff that is always there but is never used. Cork-topped phone pad, recipe card holder (too fancy to use), a glass tray, ornamental things (there is a little shelf that is better for those anyway). The whole thing finally looks airy, not just the outer 2/3 of it.

SRS