Yesterday went well and all is fine. It's a nice day today and I can eat what I want again, and tomorrow friends are coming over for lunch and I think we'll build personal pizzas on middle eastern flat bread (an Iraqi bread that is like a big version of naan), have salad, and an apple cobbler. It's cooking and baking weather now, so we're all looking forward to this one.

I the fence post put up on Wednesday is now ready to use. Today is cool and lovely and I'm going to head over to the hardware store to get the 2x4s I need for the cross-members and start scavenging from the fence supports already in place on the old fence. When my brother was here visiting he shared a fence tip with me - stack the cedar planks and apply the wood preservative to the sides, top, and bottom, then lay them out to paint it on each face before I nail them into place, then I can be sure everything is fully treated. (Home Depot and Lowe's are competitors and are equally close to me - Lowe's announced they will be closing stores so I think I'll take my business there to help keep this store open.) I pick up wood in a couple of trips because it will have to go on a tarp in the SUV with the seats down to fit them in. I do miss my old pickup.

Last night I cleared about 2' of shelf space in my office; some computer books so old they'll go straight in the recycle bin. Back copies of university publications I kept for research are going as well. I had a box full of cassette tapes that have duplicate copies of LPs from my father's estate, and I need to start making digital copies of various of his personal recordings (Song Circle, etc.) and reduce the number of cassette tapes, though many of them need to be kept as original source material and the digital copy will be for research use. I kept copies of his LPs back when I was going to have to send them to various siblings but I got all but one box back. This was for reference as far as where he learned his songs. I don't need copies of the LPs I have in my possession.