Patty, I hope you get the lumber sorted out without too much grief. Charmion, is your cough much improved, and Dorothy, is your appetite returning? Both of you up to better energy levels?

This morning I sautéed a chicken breast briefly then let it simmer in broth until it was cooked. I don't have time this morning to finish the soup (and I'm short a couple of ingredients) but I'm planning to make myself some hot and sour soup, with both chicken and tofu. I have ingredients to make regular chicken soup now, but since I have to go out today and will be near the Asian market, I'll pick up bamboo shoots. My complaint about the local Chinese restaurant I go to is that they don't do the "sour" part of their soup any more.

Still working on the office, where I swapped out a tattered three-ring binder for one that has been in the eBay stuff for ages (they gave away the binders when my library got rid of the government document repository.) The old one has been dismantled and tossed, though the rings themselves are in the donation box for the teacher art supply place - Pinterest shows all sorts of uses so that's good enough for me. I'll probably be giving them binders also since library ones are much tougher than those sold at the start of the school year.

Cat sitting starts tomorrow and is more complicated with each trip because of old sick cats. She has plants and butterfly enclosures (with a couple of varieties of pupating swallowtails) and a gazillion crafts going around the house. I'm careful not to disturb the crafts, and have to check in case any pupas fledge and need to be released as butterflies. And water plants.

Working on the list of when to do what for Sunday's dinner. Getting the bird out to defrost will be easier as small as it is this year. Still picking up and putting away in the den. Big job, that.