The cat is sitting on the floor licking her chops, nowhere near the food dish, and I am wondering what she found so satisfying somewhere else in the house. A spider? There hasn't been enough ruckus for her to have just caught a mouse. This afternoon she had a chipmunk and I made her let it go. I hope it was in good enough shape to go on living.

I spent half the day at our canyon association building's open house for the flood recovery. Hardly anyone came in, but it was nice talking to the ones who did. I had to come home and clean the house next door for people coming tomorrow. These folks come every year, and last year they were on their way here when the floods hit. I haven't heard what they did when they got the news - did they turn around and go home, or did they go to the Black Hills or some other vacation spot?

I got a lot done in 3 1/2 hours this afternoon: two loads of laundry, hung out on the clotheslines to dry, brought in, folded and put away, fresh sheets on two beds, vacuumed a two-bedroom house, cleaned the kitchen and mopped it, cleaned the bathroom, cleaned the charcoal grill. There are a couple of things to finish up tomorrow including waxing the kitchen floor with Mop n Glo.

The past couple of days were cold and humid, but today the sun came out and it was a lovely fall day. Unfortunately some of my plants, even though covered with sheets, were nipped by the frost, and their time is over.




P.S. and I also took a little nap in that 3 1/2 hours.