Have to head for Portsmouth early today; Tom has another follow-up with Dr. Harvey to further tweak his new dentures.

So I haven't a lot of time to do much today -- still trying to beat the house and deck into submission for a visit on Sunday from several of Tom's high school classmates, one from Wolfeboro, NH and the other coming up from Boston. They've never been to our place and I don't want to shock them too much -- plus Tom is still camping out downstairs using our main living area as his bedroom and bathroom.

Spent time while Tom's physical therapist was here going through an accumulation of letters from the 1990s -- sorting out some information for my "calendar" (which is more of a series of chronological notes or diary) and other ephemera for my chronological binders. (It's not easy being German; makes me a compulsive archivist...or maybe it's "pack rat".)

But...afterwards I finished getting the snow shovels to the cellar, moved some stuff off the deck and leveled the area where the grill is and put the concrete pavers that had been stacked on the deck (in between uses) under the grill. Looks more "finished" (which is totally opposite everything else in the house and garden) and is probably more practical, too.

Tom's in the process of making the bacon for our early lunch BLTs -- got a couple tomatoes at a farm stand yesterday as ours aren't ripe yet.

Probably won't get much else accomplished before heading to Portsmouth. Then we'll have time to kill between Dr. Harvey and the Press Room session. Maybe I can drop the optical magazines off at my former place of employment...

Linn