It was so dark and foggy yesterday morning that it seemed earlier than it was. Eventually Ray and I got out and took a walk with Cameron, who enjoyed it very much. The chickens were making lots of noise, but we couldn't find any reason. There were no eggs or anything unusual, but there were two birds in the nesting boxes.

Ray headed off in the truck, because our neighbor Paul was coming to replace the faucet on the solar water heater, not that we would get any hot water from it that day. I made bread and did some more work with the receipts.

At noon, I got ready to go and remembered I had let the chickens into their run. I had to try to get them back in the coop so I could close the door. There were three eggs! I haven't even had two on one day before. It seems that all three are laying now. How wonderful!

I zipped off to have lunch with Deb at the Grit. I was somewhat modest in ordering a burrito, but did have a slice of raspberry cream cake that was heavenly. After lunch, we went to the writing workshop which was very interesting, definitely the thing to do on a cold gray rainy day.

Ray and I met up at the Toyota dealership--they had sent us a mailing that said we had won a prize. It turned out to be a lottery ticket. We won $2. Then we drove home and built up the fire and stayed in our nice dry house while it poured all night. (well, I'm not sure about that, but it was raining hard when I went to bed). I made supper, Ray did dishes, and we watched about two hours of TV and were still in bed just after 9.