Jennie, very nice! Charmion, I was reading about submarine communication; they seemed to excluded the most basic method that might have had them rescued by now (small buoys on light cable). I'm not going to delve further into the mechanics of it, it's too depressing. Foolhardy. And sad that they built this thing down the hill from where I grew up.

I walked out toward the greenhouse this evening and into a strong spider web. Accckkk! When I shine the flashlight out there I know about the spiders, I just forgot to look first and with the porch light on didn't have a flashlight. The spiders build webs above any dog pathway, but not to avoid people who rarely head out at night. (I say "toward" because I backed out of the web and went into the house to see if I had any spiders on me.)

The kitchen is looking good this evening considering how messy it was this afternoon. We were supposed to conserve energy through this evening, but afternoon thunderstorms cooled the area. This will be the practice all summer (and this weekend is forecast to hit 105^o). The dishwasher is running after sunset and I'll program the washer to run at 5am.