Darn! I just zapped my own message.

Linn, I can send you some of my dried basil if you'd like.

I have salmon drying out a little now, it came out of the brine and was rinsed. I'll smoke it this afternoon on a table beside the sunroom door. I don't trust the dogs to leave the smoker alone if I use it out back.

There is a bag of clothes ready to go to Goodwill soon - I weeded t-shirts that I haven't worn in years and when I get back down to that size I still don't plan to wear them. I'm still in the weight zone I was working toward - I need to drop 10 pounds to be in the next "zone" I want to be by August. I need to weed today so I'll use a mattock (good swinging-chopping motion) and that's a start, but getting vigorous exercise in this heat is difficult.

No plans for the evening, except to walk the dogs before dark and keep them in during the noise (no fireworks allowed, but the neighbors don't do a great job of observing that rule).

SRS