Good job getting over it to the non-contagious point. Now to get over the rest of the getting over it part.

During the night I woke up a couple of times to a strange sound, and realized it was a hard rain, a couple of episodes of it. We got at least an inch and today is cool and comfortable. For late July this is miraculous! There's a good chance for more rain again overnight tonight. Then maybe I'll till the garden for fall.

Steamed a batch of broccoli and baked chicken for a few meals this week (and the dogs share the broccoli with me). When I made marinara sauce a couple of days ago I didn't have bell peppers so used poblano. It is missing the sweetness of the bell pepper, but isn't bad. Not spicy hot like you might expect. I have bells now so will saute a little bit and mix it into the jar I'm using now. I'm figuring out how to get the fiber of my granola without as many calories. I use about half of a normal serving of the granola and sprinkle it over the top of a bowl of strawberries (sweetened with monk fruit and vanilla sweetener) and non-fat plain Greek yogurt. The probiotic yogurt is healthier than plain milk and the granola is mostly nuts, so a great topping.

I'm getting ready to set up a backup HDD drive in the closet, connected to the router. I'll map it to the big computer and use it for a fresh backup. I haven't been pestered by Microsoft about updating to Win11 for a while, but if I do make the change I want the full backup so I can restore back to 10 if I want to. (In theory that is possible, at any rate.) My current hard drive is connected directly to the computer, and is getting pretty full. The point of putting one in the closet is more for security; no one plans on a burglary, but we had one here about 20 years ago, and they got all of the computer stuff and drives. The drive in the closet would be out of sight and preserve my data to restore to a new computer if need be.

How much space does your Bohemian crystal take up? Is it going to be an even exchange for when your newer glasses arrive or will there be extra space? A friend of mine has been buying a brand of frozen cat food that comes in well-insulated boxes that she saves for me and I use for shipping glasses. The company uses large pieces of insulated packing made of the same cornstarch as dissolvable packing peanuts. Whoever receives them can toss them into the compost or the sink and let them dissolve if they aren't reused.