Some steady progress in a roller coaster sort of way. Periods of coughing incessantly in spite of vit C as a "cough drop" - lots of it! Sun and Mon pretty good, and yesterday I managed to get some things done - laundry washed, hung, dried and folded. Trip to cop shop for fingerprints for citizenship app. Visit to library, with respirator, to get another book. We can only take out one "NEW" book at a time so I finished the exc Tracy Chevalier and returned it so I could take out another - Warshawski this time. Not near the quality of TC but OK. Also to fabric store to look for curtain fabric for the window wall. I was hoping Joe could get me a bunch of the white crinkly cotton but he says not. May have to go to the city stores. Arghhh! or on line?

My wrist is healing very well. Bruno is working on the studio which is going to be quite different. The inner wall, delineating it from whatever use will be next door, is entirely shelves. Twelve feet of 4x8 plywood sheets, boxed with 2x10s with shelves from bottom to top, about 12 inches apart. Two small windows-that-open on west wall; an "L" for kiln, glaze-mixing area will have exhaust fan and 16 feet of shelf walls. Then insulation and something on the west wall; windows and patio door on south wall - where someday I hope to have a deck so I can roll the wheel out there on warm days. The east wall already has door and two big windows-that-do-not-open. At least we can look out at the sky while potting.

Caught up on the dishes today and picked up local newspaper at a friend's. Airing out drawers of chest of d bought at last months auction. Very perfumey smelly. They are almost clear. It will be nice to have clothes in drawers rather than on a book case in the cold, damp storage area. Bedding is now stored in a plastic bin in sunroom, rather than the cold....

I opted to have the studio completed before the kitchen. I have orders to make and lots of pots needing to be trimmed and dried for firing. But just having one "pantry" cupboard in the K where I can put dishes and other stuff is wonderful.

Looking to have some energy to figure out a place to plant the perennials that are still in pots, just to get them through the winter as the place we want them is no where near ready.

The "Incinolet" is going to be installed before too long, close outside the sunroom in the storage area. At least it is out of the box and in a designated space. That will be wonderful! It is getting to be not only a long walk but an increasingly cold one to the distant toilet.

Weather is holding - since the incredible wind storm and rain on Monday! Beautiful sunny days, close to 70 during the day. I could live with this all year round. Where ?