Yesterday was mostly good. Picked a few tomatoes, made a special eggplant quiche for lunch. We went to the Fellowship. Ray had to do the sound, but Amelia and I were specatators in a service involving members of the congregation sharing readings about Freedom. There were fewer people there than usual.

My parents joined us for lunch: the quiche and a salad made of beans from the freezer with an herb-y dressing. There was also some leftover birthday cake and very ripe peaches, and iced tea my Mom made. We chatted a bit and they left. Amelia and I went to see Bertha, bringing a quilt Amelia had made. She had bought Bertha's sewing machine and has lots of her tools and materials: scissors, threads, bolts of fabric. It is a little easier to talk to Bertha now. Janna asks her questions and waits for her to answer, which she usually does, although it clearly takes an effort. I talked some with Amelia on the way home about my recent philosophical wrestling with questions involving quality and length of life, in a world with limited resources.

We came home and had a light supper Ray made: a delicious kidney bean and onion salad. We added some garden lettuce and cucumbers and cherry tomatoes. Then we went to Buffalo's to play trivia, meeting my parents there. We had won there once before. It is not our favorite setup, but they have a Sunday night game. We won again! One of the things we don't like about it, is we won $35, but in $5 coupons that must be used one at a time, not on a trivia night. We would not willingly eat there, so we don't use them. Last time, we were in a separate room in back, but now they have the tables in the regular dining room and it was hard to hear. A group near us was not playing, so naturally talked through the questions. And Ray was very angry, because they added up the scores wrong and we didn't really win. I had to talk him out of telling them. I just thought it would be unpleasant--and it was possible he was wrong and had misunderstood or miscalculated himself. What do you think? Is it unethical to take advantage of the moderator's math error? I felt useful; I knew some of the answers, even one that no one else in our group knew. Can you name the four railroads in Monopoly?

We had a long chat with Molli on Skype before we went to bed. This morning I woke up with these thoughts about Holovetsians in my head; I guess I was dreaming about them. Check out the link and add your ideas to mine.