I'm going to end up working overtime this weekend, but I'll take some informal comp time next week. My days of donating time in order to get the job done when I'm off the non-exempt clock are over. I'm going to clamor to get an early audit as they look at the new jobs we landed in, and I'm looking forward to leaving the job at the office after I make the change. I woke up this morning a hour before my alarm and I realized my thoughts were racing through all of the ramifications of this reorganization and the things I need to do. I felt like I must have been processing that stuff all night in my dreams. I'll be very glad when this is over.

I picked several pounds of cucumbers that were small enough to make good pickles. The first batch I gave to my friend Dean were too big and didn't work out well, but these brought a sparkle to his eye. We're going to swap pickles when they're finished - I'll give him a jar of my zucchini bread and butter pickles (made from my squash) for a jar of his cucumber bread and butter pickles (made from my cucubits). Mmmmm! This evening I picked in the garden and then cut back some of the tomato branches. It's time for fall tomatoes to go in, but I'll have to keep them sprayed with the kaolin clay or the grasshoppers will mow them down.

SRS