Yesterday, I wrote a few checks and deposited a few. We got a refund from the IRS for $1.06. Pretty funny. I was about caught up and didn't have much to do. Meredith was not in all day, but didn't call or email me, so I don't know what that was about. I did get an email about something else from her, but no explanation. Ray and I had lunch at Lindsey's; it was good but involved meat and potato chips, not as many veggies as I would like. We dropped off some books that had been left at the Shelter to the Whatever It Takes book project. And went to the Food Bank for milk. They had some children's cough medicine, too, so that was awesome.

I didn't feel up for racquetball, so came home pretty early. Spent some hours outside with the chickens, who did come out from under the porch for a while. Dug a little in the garden. Radishes and some other things coming up. Cabbages thinking about becoming heads. Still saw several large grasshoppers. Sunny, but cool and windy. Not very warm in the house either. Ray split some wood, so if we need to build a fire, we can. We will need to gather some more. What we have is about a month's worth, depending on the weather.

Made bean snap, but ran out of time, so the beans weren't cooked enough. We went to see a play at the Town & Gown theater with Becky & Kent and their friend Dory (the researcher who works with Capuchin monkeys). It was very silly, Epic Proportions, about making a movie in the desert, involving the Queen of the Nile, building pyramids and other cheesy ancient times, as well as two brothers and a woman...the primary gag was reshooting a scene over and over involving a tortured death and pretending the audience members were extras. I didn't fall asleep though. I turned down a chance to go for dessert and slept in the car and in front of the TV.

It looks like a beautiful morning. I woke up several times in the night, sore throat, achy, stuffy nose, but the last time it was 7.