I raced around this morning, to the store and back home because I realized I didn't want chicken hanging out in the car all afternoon. That first stop was south of here - everything else was to the north and west. I stuffed things in the fridge at home then continued on my way, starting with a favor for a friend who is out of town all day and realized there was a delivery of frozen cat food on her front porch. I loaded it into her freezer then headed out to lunch.
Nice lunch with my daughter (I bought two feminist silver pendants and gave her one of them - sterling silver wire bent into the shape of a wire coat hanger). Next I stopped at the new friend's house to pick up things she is passing along as she prepares to move (bags of fabric and some plants), but we ended up sitting in the kitchen for a couple of hours, sharing pots of mint tea, comparing stories about places we've lived, experiences with teaching, work, gardening, literature, you name it - and again we both bemoaned the fact that we only met now, when she's preparing to move away. (I'll look through four bags of fabric and decide if it should be kept here, shared with my daughter, or most likely, the bulk of it taken to the donation site for local school art teachers to use.)
A couple of more stops on the way home, part of it planning for a lunch here for friends on Sunday. I have to clean house, and it really needs it, so the lunch lights a fire under me to clean here tomorrow.