For Halloween, we'll be "home" but swiney-taminacious with lights off at the door. But no one T/T's on our ruiral road anyhow.
I just went and visited the poor, penned-up doggies. F had been peeing on/in his water dish, so we changed and elevated that yesterday. Sadie is trying to dig thru the 2-layer brick wall in their snug sleeping shed. Just one more night to go, out there.... Poor things read the weather runes and fret.
They cannot fathom that tomorrow night they will be in Dog World, back to easy access to the indoor, snugly heated, warm sleeping corner. I'll take them in there myself tomorrow, after all the workers leave, and I'm calling in all favors to get enough helpers to get it done before the VERY cold night advertised for Sunday night.
I was just out there making sure all the pieces are in place and ready for final assembly-- which they are. If all the helpers were to crap out on us tomorrow-- Hardi and I could still get it done by bedtime (GO GIRL POWER!!!), tho it would not be the best thing as we are sick.
There is a clipboard all prepped with enlarged detail-sketches of some of the trickier bits.... and the whole job they'll do tomorrow will all be UN-doable (and thus re-doable next week), once we are no longer contagious. Any re-do's can all be done while the doggies play around WITH us as we adjust Dog World, add playtoys and furniture, etc.
The daytimes next week promise to be warm enough for some time to enjoy/upgrade all this, tho the warm nights end tomorrow night.
So today, I have prepped what I can and will spend the rest of today's flu-confinement up in my office getting our Green Songbook "dummied" for printing. Hardi will be home by supper to help sort thru the last of the videos that are leaving to clear space for new, workshop-oriented video. Then we will actually get to watch a hockey game LIVE, together, on a Saturday Night-- he was smart to let someone else take the regularly-scheduled weekend services. About the second time in 30 years he has not just "gutted it out" when sick. (We now have many elderly, frail parishioners who do not need to be bear the germs, even tho we have very light cases ourselves.)
We also have lots of hilarious-scary movies in the DVR to pass the time. The cats are already sleeping, nested, in winter mode. But we have twice as many full-spectrum lamps in the house as we had last year-- just about one in every room-- and two, in some.