Michelle, sounds like our weather from a couple of days ago has reached you.

Though I caught myself procrastinating by weeding in the garden, I make myself mix the last 1/4 bag of mortar and finish more or less leveling the wall out front. This isn't the final finishing layer, this is attaching the important stones to the structure. I have a couple of more to put in place and then I can decide about the finishing layer of mortar. I think it is beautiful, but this is what all mothers think about their children, isn't it? ;-D

Tonight for dinner it was leftover chicken along with some pan-fried pieces of my garden potatoes and a bowl of green beans. My beans got clobbered by hail, so these are from the grocery. But anyway, it is coming along.

I was at Home Depot today looking at the pre-fab cabinets. Thinking about how to use one, with a cooler attached, as a faux root cellar. It would be nice to "invent" such a thing that I could manufacture and sell. Who knows? I've been looking to see if anyone else has one out there. It isn't a fridge - that isn't good for potatoes or onions or probably lots of other garden produce. I'm thinking about size, adaptability, and power supply right now. This is a food storage unit for those of us who live in warm climates who don't have basements or root cellars.

My Internet is slow to connect this evening. Running diagnostics. Also finishing ripping Recorded Books so I can return these to the library tomorrow. They were wonderful to listen to on my drive to Arizona. I now have a new mp3 player and am working on loading them into it.

SRS