Mr. Troutbend is coming here on Friday to help with winterizing the rental cabin and other chores. I could do it myself, but his mother wanted their family to have a meeting regarding estate planning so we are pretending I need his help. I've done most of it, and what's left will take him about two hours to complete. While he's here, I think we'll go out to dinner, somewhere nice to make up for ignoring my birthday and our wedding anniversary.

I tried to talk him into flying here and driving back with me and the cat, but no, he hates flying so much he would rather spend all the money for gas and the time driving both ways by himself.

Well, fine, I'll take my time winding things up here after he leaves. The weather has been so dry, I'd like to see a good snow storm before I go, but I don't think it's going to happen.