I did go back to sleep around 6:30 for about an hour. Woke momentarily (and didn't hear anything untoward coming from downstairs), so went back to sleep for another 45 minutes or so with a cat snuggled next to me and dreams of three cavorting men (cartwheels and such) in light green robes playing shawms outside the Episcopal church just behind our back door (in the dream -- our house, of course, wasn't our house and it was an alien neighborhood as well). Oh, and there was a puffy tailed black cat who ran across the yard (and then sat there) as soon as I looked at it.

Well, there was a large brown bird that was neither a turkey nor a turkey vulture sitting in the northern edge of the grassy interior of the Portsmouth Traffic Circle yesterday (couldn't get a closer look as I circled from the Spaulding to the Rte 1 Bypass) -- I think that translated into the black cat in the dream.

And I'd been listening to Maddy Pryor and the Carnival Band ("Carols & Capers") in the car which may explain the shawms (and the capers).

Now I've got Maddy Pryor and the Carnival Band songs going through my head...

Trying to make breakfast sandwiches (egg and bacon and cheese) for brunch and get the place somewhat picked up before the recliner is delivered.

Linn