I'm glad you made the trip to see your friend. And I'm sure the feelings about and from that visit will evolve as you think about it.

Cleaning up around the house, laundry, vacuuming, and filing. Lots of filing. I sorted out my pantry shelves in the hall and made room for two cases of mustang grape jelly. I'll be sauteing and freezing some slices of eggplant and making a couple of more jars of pickles.

A friend is supposed to be coming over to poke around in the creek for fossils. The day is overcast but it doesn't show a chance of rain, so it should be safe. We get flash floods sometimes that tumble the creek bed enough to make it good picking when the mud and gravel dries out enough. When he's finished fossil hunting we'll and go eat lunch. I have fossils sitting on window sills and piled around the doors - I walk the dogs down there occasionally and come back with more. My neighbor found an ancient shark tooth fossil last summer.

SRS