I'm working on the text I'll turn in for a course I've been taking, and it is the equivalent of writing a thesis then reducing it to the prospectus. I want the information in the longer document for my own use, but they just want the bullet points to know where I'm going with the information I've gleaned in the course. I've made a couple of new friends in there, so it has been worth the effort.

I finished another jigsaw puzzle today and would offer it to the friend who was over and placed a couple of pieced (before I asked that he not - I felt weird being so stingy, but it's an interesting meditative process and I seem to address each piece as I work - and usually only do a few at a time. A sort of cleansing the mental palate.) I could offer this puzzle to that friend next, but I was in their house recently and walked the narrow path from the door to the bathroom through the chaos that is the living room and I am 99.99% certain there isn't a clear level surface for puzzle-working in that dwelling. It would disappear into the abyss. I'd have to give him a correct sized piece of lumber also to work it on.

We had a couple of lovely days of rain and now I need to return to the garden to finish thinning irises. The weekend and early next week look like perfect weather to work in.