Today is the official last day of my PO box rental; this post office building was constructed in 2000 and I was probably one of the earliest customers. I'll miss having to run over every so often and pry contents out of the next-to-smallest box - NOT. When the annual rent increased to $248I began the already described transition to the mail at home in a locking box. The PO address mail will now forward for 18 months (I paid for an extra 6 months just for the heck of it.) I'll think of a suitable ceremony. Maybe I'll apply the sticky numbers that came with it to the box, but it is mounted under the house numbers in view on the porch.

The heat is officially on in the house. This morning was just too chilly to sit in my office when it showed 62^o in here. I'm puttering around, swapping sandals for slippers, setting out a few lap quilts, and turning off switches for dusk-to-dawn lights that would possibly invite trick-or-treaters to the house.