This is how the garden looks from upstairs, at least it did about 10 days ago.

Now, my stress is more like excitement. I talked to molli and amelia about our trip (tomorrow!) and we are going to do some fun things!

Yesterday I worked until 1, but never heard from Alison. She was supposed to have a board meeting last night, so I suspect she was getting ready for that. Today I have to do everything I can't do for the next 10 days. Except that I don't know what will be needed while I'm gone.

Ray and I got a swim in, so that was really good. Then I had a brief meeting with the nominating committee to see who has applied to be on the search committee. Our job is to pick 10 people and the congregation will elect 7 of them.

Then we took some cucumbers and tomatoes to potluck, where there were about 6 of us, but we had a great dinner. They were glad to see us; no one else had brought salad.

Started packing and paid my bills.