Up and down today. The weather was gorgeous: cool and sunny and breezy, high in the low 70s, and it must have been low humidity, because it felt great. No wind damage in our yard or neighborhood that I could find.

I dropped Ray off at work about 10:30 and went to the Land Trust. A community service worker (people with DUI, mostly students, can be sentenced to community service and are anxious to get hours) had agreed to come by about 11 and help me mail letters to potential sponsors. He never showed and I didn't quite get them all done before the mailman came; most of them were done, but a few more got postage after he left, because I was waiting for the community service worker to do it.

The good news is ALT can have a table at the Twilight Criterium bike race this weekend, for free, if we come up with 8 volunteers for 5 hours Saturday night. So far, I have only 3: Heather, Ray and me. And really, I am not that crazy about standing on my feet for 5 hours and telling people they can or can't cross the street between laps. Then we have to figure out how to staff the table we earned, and prepare materials for it.

Becky and I had lunch; she is heading out of town for a horse show this weekend, a big one for Lara. We had fun, but felt guilty for not visiting Bertha this week. I haven't even heard anything about her in the last few days.

At 5, I had a massage from Beth B., a choir member, who donated it as a prize to the person who recruited the most new tenors and basses this fall. I recruited Ray (or Amber did); Rosemary recruited Don, but his attendance is a little spotty and Rosemary didn't care about the prizes. It was a great massage, involving elbows and lavender oil among other things. I felt kind of bad, getting it for free, and didn't even have any cash for a tip. I thought $1 was worse than nothing. And writing a check for a tip seemed weird. I will have to go back and pay full price and give her an extravagant tip.

Ray had the Democratic committee meeting at 6; I went to pick him up and it was still going full strong, so we didn't get home until 7:45, at which point I was practically too hungry to eat and ate leftovers from the night before, plus some peas from the garden. It was practically dark while I was picking them and then had to shell and cook them. They were delicious and enough for a small serving, but not very filling. Also, the last of the chocolate torte with some ice cream. But I am starving now.

A little TV and a lot of sleep, but I am still tired and somewhat sore and feel stressed about this bike ride, 3 weeks from tomorrow. We have a few sponsors, mostly in-kind donors, and only two riders registered. Although they tell me that is normal; most people will wait, but we have to proceed as if we knew they would come. Phew.