The way the weather service described it, this cold front is racing through here today. It was 83 degrees yesterday, and 65 degrees today, but still sunny and dry. Then we warm back up again. We don't have a chance of rain until Sunday. I'm starting to pray for it because the fire danger is going to escalate. The silver lining is the money we are saving on propane to heat the houses.

My guests for the next 3 nights showed up at 10:30 this morning. They were driving from Iowa or Ohio, and must surely have stopped in Nebraska for the night. Or maybe they drove straight through.

At any rate, I wasn't ready that early. I had planned to take a quick trip through the house to make sure there weren't any dead bugs on the window sills and no signs of mouse activity. The heat was turned down, and the bathroom and kitchen rugs weren't down.

So I get to looking and sure enough, mice had been on the counter in the kitchen, and worse yet, they'd been in the silverware drawer. So I had to bring the whole drawer contents over here and run it through the dishwasher. Then, all of a sudden I remembered that the hot water heater was still unplugged! I went racing over there and caught them before she got into the shower. A few minutes later he came over and said the shower had no water pressure, so I went over and showed them how the faucet is stiff (this is a new thing for it) and you really have to tug on it, but the pressure is fine. When I get a chance, I'm going to put some WD-40 on that faucet in the shower.

Fingers crossed that nothing else goes wrong over there.