The power is out again, same 40 houses that usually get hit on this side of the street. At the moment I have lots of battery stuff going—the boom box from my sewing room has batteries to fall back on, my Stanley portable power thing is running the laptop, and the hall battery backup has the modem and router plugged in for WiFi. It looks like further repairs are being performed after the weekend outage and predict we'll be powered up again by 1pm. Fingers crossed - there is a weather alert on the radio now for a wind storm coming through the area later today.

My several bowls of the accumulated ripe garden tomatoes were blanched, simmered, and pureed into sauce last night while a fresh batch of pecans baked slowly. It looks like another morning of photographing eBay stuff, and when the power is back I'll process photos and start the listing. I also need to call a roofer and get that process started.

Have fun this week, patty, with your various events. Does anyone else have holiday activity around the Day of the Dead/Halloween/Samhain this week?