The prospect of having a guest in the house after all of this time is energizing so I made a series of stops on my midday cat-feeding run. To clear off the counter one thing I needed to do was return the stack of unopened stuff to Home Depot from past projects, leaving me with a store credit of $40 that will probably go for a new hose I'll select later on.

It has warmed enough that the back yard is going to get mowed today. I'll wait till Tuesday to mow the front, though I will probably keep working out there on other stuff, like trimming freeze-damaged shrubs.

The guest room top blanket went into the dryer to fluff on air (remove dust) and then I'll remake the bed before dusting the room. And so many chairs around the house have dusty seats because no one has been here to sit on them. Suddenly I can look at my house through someone else's eyes. It's dusty.