We've been hearing about that meat allergy condition for a couple of years now, but it seems to have hit a growth spurt lately. So when Jon travels to parks with good weather, careful in the weeds and woods, don't get into the ticks. I try to avoid the woods across the road from me each summer because we've always had a tick problem there.

I've spent the afternoon helping a Freecycle acquaintance figure out how to set up a TV antenna outside her apartment on the patio to get some kind of signal that she can't get with an indoor antenna. We're discussing how to camouflage the base of a spring-loaded pole that she'll attach a small TV antenna to. A couple of buckets of potting soil with flowers should do the trick. I hope some of the problem solving we've been doing on this have been instructive.