A couple of amazing things happened this morning. First off, I got to bed at 10:30 last night and didn't wake up until 6:00 this morning -- no middle of the night needing to get up and go to the bathroom or deer setting off the driveway alert or Rufus just gently bopping my face to see if I'm awake ("Are you in there, Mom? Are you awake?")

Then I DID get up and go to the bathroom, but I went back to bed and slept until 8:30. I haven't slept that late since I worked second shift... Must have needed it.

And I woke up with lots of energy. Took a shower and washed my hair, called a plumber who was suggested to me (still need to get all the shutoffs including the main shutoff in the cellar replaced with ball valves), petted a cat, planned what to do with a couple small pieces of furniture, read further in "The Sisters" about the Mitford family, and got a return call from an old friend and we were able to get more or less caught up with each other. Also called another friend and discovered we won't be able to get together until next week. (Tomorrow I work on the T-shirt quilt, Wednesday my handyman is coming with two lally columns and some other materials to shore up the stressed joists in the cellar and start pushing the short wall on the first floor made of cinder blocks back into place so we can repair the crack, and Thursday, what fun, I'm having two quadrants of deep cleaning at my dentist. That's what I get for having not had enough money to go to the dentist for about five years.)

Then I went out to do errands. My third stop was groceries and there has recently been a hostile takeover of the local (Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine) chain and the employees are demonstrating (and calling for a boycott and keeping the store without their daily deliveries from the main warehouse. Since I'm very much in support of the employees, I guess I won't be shopping there for awhile. (And I had to go to go to Hannaford's 10 miles away to get the produce I needed and couldn't get at the farmer's market.) If you want to read more, see From Wikipedia and Portsmouth Herald or go to the Boston Globe or Boston.com and search.

Just got Saturday's Press Room shanty sing posted here at Mudcat and now I've got supper in the oven, and I've got most of the groceries put away. Paid a bill and I think I can run the dishes through. Still have to clean out two litter boxes and...and...what else? (My list is upstairs.)

Should work on PMFF corrections...maybe tomorrow after I get home from working on the quilt. Oh, AND I've got to pull the poison ivy and a bunch of thorn bushes and bag them for tomorrow's trash...well, maybe they won't get out in tomorrow's trash...

And eventually land back in bed with a cat in my lap and continue reading the book... R&R is good, too.

Linn