Oh, Alice, there is so much expression in his face, so much said without words through the skill and talent of yourself. I love that one, esp.

I had hoped to get back some of what we paid the IRS this year by doing an itemized deduction, but after racking my brain for 2-3 hours, I gave up, figured we didn't spend more than the standard deduction and finally just did a 1040EZ. Sheesh! I coulda done that last April. Oh well, at least it is done. We won't get back anything, but at least we won't owe any more, either.

We went for a drive and found a lovely small cemetery out along an old farm country road. It had huge old cottonwoods, so we got out and walked a little bit so I could hug the trees and the dog could walk,too, on a leash. I saw a few familiar names from my elementary school days. So I had that walk and also did the vigorous 16 minute qi gong.

Got the bathroom scrubbed and have done four loads of laundry, all folded, not all put away, yet.

The other day, Morgan asked why he didn't have a taller table for his sanctum the way I do. Mine is about dinner table height with my candles and incense burner on it. He's been using a small table my granddad made for his candles and incense burner, which, btw, is a repurposed salt shaker in the form of "Lady" form Lady and the Tramp. My mom had the set, but I don't know what happened to the other. It makes a perfect holder for stick incense with the holes in the top of the head. The other day he insisted on three sticks, one for each hole and said she looked as though she had a "mohawk" hairdo.

Anyway, Rog went looking in the shed for a taller table for Morgan. He found a bedside stand I'd forgotten we had which is a little tall, but has two below shelves with a small pull-out drawer. I'll let Morgan decide if he wants to use it. If not, I think I can use it out here in the DR office area.

Rog finished mowing and weed-whacking as well as did the litter boxes and a bit of grocery shopping.

I have the taxes, a netflix movie, and two more books ready to mail out, tomorrow.