I hope everyone is back to their old selves for the weekend. Get a good night's sleep if you can!

I stepped into the back yard briefly to push the mower around a small space for the dogs (it is so terribly hot here this summer that I'm concentrating on what I can water with one of those rotating sprinklers) so they have one area to hang out that isn't dead grass and dust. And of course I pulled wrong and have a sore spot behind my knee again. Too soon for the mower, apparently. I was very careful after that misstep and will not do that again for a while. Ice packs at bedtime. I ran the sprinkler this evening over that mowed area so it will be inviting for them (and it is in the shade of two trees).

This afternoon I called to ask a list of questions about the home warranty plan then went ahead to set it up. My rationale: when I was young I used to do work on my own cars, but as they got to be more sophisticated I gave up even the simple oil and oil filter changes to mechanics. When I divorced I signed up for AAA as my vehicle backup plan for jumping batteries or changing flats. Now that I've retired I think the home warranty is probably a prudent move to keep things running around here. I still do some stuff, but for the big mechanical things, I'll gamble that the warranty will come in useful now that everything is about 20 years old. And I made sure they will let me use the businesses I've always used - they actually prefer it, figuring customers have a feel for how businesses in a given area operate. The biggest company in this field doesn't give you a say in the matter and their contractors have been known to pull a fast one in trying to sell new equipment instead of performing simple repairs.