Charmion, good deed accomplished by helping your friend. Does she have someone to help her around the house for a while? There is a fair amount of recovery one has to go through, as I recall from my mother's surgery.
I also take glasses frames over to an optometrist business I don't use any more but where one of the guys delivers them to the Lion's Club. I've finally weeded out most of them.
Dorothy, you've been busy! I'm glad the floor has been looked at and will be reconstructed. You were lucky it wasn't discovered under more drastic circumstances!
Don, I hope you're feeling better after your fall. Your jewelry work sounds interesting; I Googled Coober Pedy - I knew opals often came from Australia but didn't know any specifics. Astonishing that some of them live underground - something that would be sensible here if it keeps getting hotter. :-/
We almost got rain here this evening; I could smell it in the air, but nothing materialized. I hope anyone who got it went out to dance in it. Until that point it was too hot to spend long hanging laundry today so I put most of the clothes on hangers and hung those on the clothesline (I should put a short line for this kind of thing up under the patio cover). That left just a couple of sheets and a towel and not much else. Dried very quickly in 100o weather. Up till now I wasn't comfortable hobbling around out there with the knee, but it is getting better every day.
Next week gets a lot easier (fewer appointments) and I'll decide about when to start the new heat pump installation. I wanted to be clear of some of these medical appointments before I started a new project.