Joe and Jill made it out of the royal scrum and back to Air Force One safely. Whew!

My house smelled so amazing overnight, after making seven jars of fresh pickles (now doing their brining thing in the fridge) and a batch of marinara sauce that used up all of the little batches of sauce I made over the last week from the funky ugly small tomatoes coming out of the yard. The sauce is for eggplant parmesan. I'll eat some and make the rest into a couple of small casseroles to freeze.

eBay box is ready to hand over to the postal carrier.