Charmion, have you considered pampering yourself in that ground floor loo by getting a bidet, with a warm seat and water? Just what makes the room comfortable in the cold months. (I'll send the specs on the ones the kids gave me if you're interested. Most useful xmas gift I've ever received!)

Is Edmund's family in the area? Do you see them often?

Each morning since the roof installation I police the grounds around the house for tiny pieces of plastic, tar paper, wrapper, shingle, and nails. Most of the nails and plastic disks come from when the tar paper was torn up, and there will be stray ones turning up for a long time.

I noticed from a recent FB photo of Charmion's garage that she backs her car in, something I always do here. My house is near a T intersection so backing into the street takes extra care. Backing up the driveway into the garage takes attention because my 75' drive is curved but I placed a large pale pot as landmark to steer past if it's dark. I learned this in the US Forest Service where we served as an emergency agency (fires mostly, but human safety issues could call us out) having trucks fueled and parked facing the compound was the best way to depart. I'm guessing this is also a military practice that became habit?

Today is another PT run for the ex then we'll come back here and cook Puerto Rican rice and take it and him back home after. I'm still working on getting calories into him. Perhaps we'll work on a project also and assemble my new antenna.