Dishes have crept into the kitchen sink and papers piled up in my office and kitchen table—these are both a result of the invitation of open horizontal surfaces to set things down. It's near the end of the month so a combination of shredding and filing will resolve the paper problem, and though I typically use the dishwasher only to dry sink-washed dishes, I'll load it and run it tonight.

This week's stack of branches and chunks of the limb await our neighborhood's bulky waste pickup in early June. The village doesn't like us piling up stuff earlier than the weekend before pickup.

Susan, I'm rethinking my security setup after the mystery of The dogs that didn't bark in the day. :) They didn't show their faces while a stranger to them walked up the driveway and into the garage, pushed the button to shut the door then quickly stepped out under the moving door. While he was talking to me on the phone.