When I got to work yesterday, I was the only one there for a while, which I kind of like sometimes. The phone rang a lot though, and there was a high-pitched beeping sound coming from the computer in the night staff office across from mine. When Jaron got there, he said it was the alarm system. We studied the map and tried to figure out where zone 21 was. I went into a couple rooms before we figured out which window it was. There didn't appear to be anything that should set off the alarm, so I took out the battery and went and bought some replacements when Kerri got in about 11. And we pushed bypass on the keypad, which made the beeping stop. The new battery didn't fix the problem though (so I threw away a perfectly good battery maybe).

I had lunch at Panera while I was at Batteries Plus and it was really good. Later, Greg and I went to the Food Bank to get milk. The other thing I did was move some things and throw away some old papers so there wouldn't be anything on my floor today when the tour group comes. What to wear??

Ray and I were home by 4 and it was another lovely day. I spent at least an hour sitting in the sun, leafing through a cookbook to no purpose and occasionally checking on the chickens, who seem to like staying near the deck, under the big rosebush. When it got too cold, I tried to call them to come into their coop, but they said, "no thanks, we like it out here." Fortunately, they are not really ornery and when I got behind them and shooed, they headed into the coop. If they really wanted to put up a fight, there is no way I could make them. They can fly a little and it would be impossible for me to catch them. We are checking every day now for the first egg.

Ray made a pasta salad and we had a nice supper at UUFA potluck and a good choir rehearsal. Amber got a little testy, which is Ray for her, because people were talking too much when she was trying to talk. Ray is one of the guilty parties, because he was asking Stu questions all the time.

Slept soundly, starting in the car on the way home.