The key to using those is knowing how to sharpen them (wet stone) and keeping them that way.

I've almost finished a jigsaw puzzle that has languished on the table in the sunroom for ages. It's tough, one I'll offer up locally when I finish (I often take them to the thrift store, but there are people who collect some of these so I'll post it on FB.) One of several things I'd like to finish this week.

The artist friend I saw on Monday gave me several jars full of colored pencils and pens that have been rubber-banded together and fit into a box. I'll be looking at bags of donations for a couple of weeks so I'll keep them from commingling in the bottom of a bag (they ask you to organize them the way you'd like to receive them; I don't think it is particularly OCD of me to want each type to stay together.) It has me wondering if the project has an Amazon wish list, that would be a worthy donation in this time of continuing solicitations for donations from political types.

Another rainstorm missed us overnight, skirting neatly past our village as it clobbered the rest of the area. My sprinkling continues every couple of days. It's time to start plants that will go in the gardens for fall crops, but they can't be put out right now or they'd crisp up in the sun. I'll start them on the potting bench under the shade cloth or in the house.

There is a construction project that is staging on the opposite side of the creek from my house, and today I called the city hall to ask what it is. The person who answered the phone said it has to do with Fort Worth and they have an agreement that they can use the village property for some of the equipment. I asked what that project is, he didn't know. "Not my department." I asked which would know, and he said he could put me through to public works, upon which it went to voice mail. This might seem a normal office occurrence except city hall is a small building with about five employees and the guy could have just stuck his head out of his office door and asked someone in the next room what the project is.

Charmion, when will you have movers arrive at your house? And will they be able to move everything directly to the new house, or will it be in limbo for a bit?