I'm still doing pretty well. The weather is cooler this morning. I have a headache, maybe related to the weather, and lower back pain, probably from sitting too much.

Ray went to work yesterday and I stayed home all day, making a few phone calls and working on some of my cerebral projects, especially the Green Sanctuary. I read a lot of the manual and made some notes about it.

I also made notes throughout the day for a future novel set in Kenney Ridge--or someplace like it--after the end of cheap oil. How well would people in a community like this do without outside supplies? Ray and others have helpful information, but it doesn't always fit my scenario. Fiction is great; you can ignore the parts that don't work.

I made some butter-nut chip cookies into logs in the fridge; I'd been working on them gradually for days; hope they taste all right. Now I can slice and bake when it is cooler.

I made a sandwhich for lunch. A lot of our cold cuts are older; I rejected the Muenster cheese and fed some of it to the dog. I went out to get a few leaves of baby lettuce to put on the sandwich and the garden was drooping. So I set up the sprinkler and watered. The lettuce didn't taste like much, it was so dry and limp. I had a couple slices of plum tomato from the garden, though.

Spent some time at Sky's working on the Kenney Ridge finances. It is wierd when so many people are and have been involved. There are redundant categories and other people do things differently. But fortunately, it's not really an issue.

Made some phone calls and did some work on the computer.

Went to potluck at Kenney Ridge after Ray got home. We had enough left from UUFA potluck to take it again. There's still some left and we have another potluck tonight...but I don't think I'll take it a third time. For one thing, there might be some people that were at the first one.

TV, bed.