Every day I think about telling you all what is going on, and something comes up to distract me. Before I know it, a whole week has passed.

Miss Eloise Kitty has been waging a war on the local rodent population. Every day I'll have to take a dead vole (a little larger than a mouse, gray all over, short tail) away from her before she can eat it, and she'll go catch something else. Yesterday's additions were a chipmunk and two mice or voles; all I saw of them was innards that she left on the back patio.

This morning I hiked up on the mountain with the cell phone so it can get a signal and download the minutes for the month tomorrow. If we miss a month, it causes all kinds of problems.

My garden is coming along well, and tonight I harvested the little bit of broccoli rabe that I planted from seed. Now that I know it's easy to grow and I like it, I'll plant some more when the weather is right.

That's it for now.