SRS: Congratulations on your beautiful new piece of furniture!

Linn and Mary: Thinking of you - because that is all I can do for you. "Life is fraught with hazard." is a fav saying of my 87 year old dear dear friend. Also "hope is the best thing we can give anyone". So we can only keep on hoping....

R just got definite word that a lawsuit is impending resulting from he, and bro's, effort to help a friend save her house and business by lending her money. This caused the late summer and fall crisis which lasted until 21 Dec - 7 day weeks, paying a crew and renting heavy equipment with absolutely no support from that friend. She was given a great deal of help to sue the culprit, which would have helped but cannot carry through. R gets quite overwrought and did not sleep last night. So I am back to spending most of time in city to just be here for him. It seems to help.

Nothing is getting done in studio, or re the move but I still need to go back and forth to care for the squirrels and, now, the four kits at the mill. They were out of cage this morning but I don't know if mom let them out or they managed it. So, I re-collected the screaming kids and put them back in cage. Then I managed to get some raccoon formula into each with a syringe. Put them back where mom could find them. If tomorrow is a replay, I may bring them with me - commute with my menagerie hidden under a blanket. It is a tough call. If mom is still around, I don't want to upset her but don't want these little guys starving either. I'll try a bottle tomorrow in hopes they will ingest more formula. They are not fat.

Managed to delete a bunch of old emails tonight. And NOT eat 8 cookies. Oh, it rained on the clothes I hung on the line yesterday but I left them to dry whenever. Brought the unhung ones back and dried them in the dryer and did another load as well. A day.