I got most of the cobwebs and dust clumps off of the bedroom ceiling except missed one little area I noticed at 2:30am last night. That's when I finally finished changing the batteries in my little battery clock (an AC adapter lets it shine the time on the ceiling.) Damned thing started beeping. When it was set up I realized the time shone directly on one of those odd dust spots.

Dorothy, good news about finding the comforter! Most of the repair people I know are careful to try avoid damage to things around the house - that guy sounds like a boor. Your family visit sounds like it will be wonderful.

This morning was quite cold, I got out my LL Bean insulated jacket for the trip to feed cats. Not quite down to freezing yet, but soon.

I made buttermilk pancakes with a side of bacon for brunch. The Bob's Red Mill pancake mix has his blend of non-gluten flour, binder, baking powder, a little sugar, salt, and the cook adds an egg, melted butter, and 3/4 cup milk. To make buttermilk pancakes from scratch you reduce the baking powder and use baking soda. Since baking powder is already in this mix I just added a teaspoon of soda then my buttermilk. I also thin the batter a lot more with water to make the Scandinavian thinner style pancakes. They came out great - I got away with it! Of course the bag suggests a serving is two 4" pancakes and we each had three 6" pancakes (a far more reasonable amount in real human terms). I thawed some of the strawberry syrup I made before I started my low-sugar ways. Ate most of the fruit and as little of the actual syrup as possible. Still lots of sugar.

Off to do cat stuff again and while I'm out I'll swing by the city hall recycle bins and drop off some flattened boxes. A lot of flattened boxes.