Rain once a week - what a lovely arrangement! Let's keep it up!


Oh, we've had the reverse-- sun once a week. Locals now joke, "Say, can ya tell me: what's that blue stuff up there, sonny?" ("Sonny" cracks up) I could send ya's some rain if you'd like a little more....

Very frustrated here: The ill fam members have been hidden behind a toxic barrier. We've had to get a tad creative. Ydy a lovely job of help was done at the local post office-- big, strong, manly man delaying his lunch break to help me cram (lovingly, very reverently) a large item into a Priority Mail box. With friend's encouragement (a peer with one foot planted solidly in the helping world), today another box goes. The next box is in prep at home already.

Flea season has apparently attacked the county with a vengeance; the vet's office has settled into a patient "script" of What to Do (that peeps may not already be doing). "Yes, even people doing all we have taught them to do, before, are overrun. Some people are calling exterminators! What to add is....." So TBTG we had changed the dust cover plan for the LR from comforters to sheets, and over top of those I'm adding towels long allocated to MudDorm and now back in the dnstrs rotation-- with daily change and hot-wash. I'm reluctantly adding more chemical helps (and I already know and use all the Green ones), but still doing all we can, chem-free, with what we have at our disposal. One of the cats (quite elderly) may not get thru this one. But there is a new-to-us dog med (it supplements Frontline) which I know Faulkner is eager to try out!

The new cooktop is late. The stellar clng job in the kitchen has worn off, and it cluttered up while I dealt with the toxic/fam issues; so I'm up early to whip it because, as I went to bed last night and took a last look, I was SURE the landlord would call today to say the installer is due in 5 minutes, and if so-- he's gonna need room to work!

~S~