Just verified that I must have gotten rid of my antique lawn lounge (which I rescued from the dump and rewebbed back in the '70s), so I guess a newer one to put on the far side of the back flower bed in the hemlock "room" may be in order.

I'm going to a Friends of Portsmouth Lighthouses talk on Portsmouth Harbor Light and (my favorite) Whaleback Light tonight at the Portsmouth library. Maybe I'll stop at Ocean State Job Lots and get one. Maybe not, and save it for tomorrow on my way to The Press Room.

I'm probably doing too much. I know I'm juggling a lot of stuff at the same time and, if I stop to think about it, I'm a bit overwhelmed/over-extended. I'm really too tired (another exerting day in the yard) to go to the lighthouse talk 25 miles away, but I'm also making up for lost time. And keeping busy probably isn't a bad thing. I'm making headway on things around the house and I'm also going to interesting music events, Portsmouth and Nottingham library events, Portsmouth Athenaeum events that I haven't been able to go to before -- for the past two years I had to take care of Tom, and for the years just before that, hold down a retail job with strange hours AND get Tom to his doctors' appointments, etcet. I couldn't even enjoy the Press Room sessions because of the strain and anxiety of getting Tom safely there and home again.

Linn