Sounds like it was an exciting day around there, Charmion! And more helpful than a pop-up rugby game in the yard.

Down here it is warm and muggy and rain likely again overnight; I did some weeding around the potato plants, brought in six sub-tennis ball sized red lasoda taters, and stabilized the new almond verbena shrub. Telemedicine talk, drove to a blood draw and the pharmacy. All is in motion to send this PMR on the run. From now on my political response needs to be brief and efficient and make much more time available for relaxed activities.

My friend who's in town will be here tomorrow to work on computer stuff for promoting her holiday book (last year when it came out she didn't have a lot of time to plan, now she does.) I'll pick her up, and before that, I'll race around to flatten and store some of the empty boxes sitting around, they're the worst of the clutter.