Here we are, headed back to school. A lot of possibiities...and warm weather. We have ordered our seeds for this spring and replaced part of the fence. Any day now, it will be warm enough to work outside. This has been the longest cold spell I can remember, but it is forecast to hit 70 next weekend.

Yesterday morning, most of us wen to the Burning Bowl service at UUFA. Elisa was up when we left, but not ready to go. I'm still not sure if she wanted to come with us and was late or never intended to come. I felt bad, but we were a little late as it was. My Dad was there, a pleasant surprise, and seemed to enjoy the service. We wrote things on little slips of paper and burned them up, like anger and living in the past. Ray and I drove Molli to Becky's house, where she will be living for a couple weeks, taking care of their dogs while they are on a cruise. We stopped at Lowe's on the way home and got some hardware to fix the clothesline.

At home, we had lunch, more leftovers. E. was upstairs and did not come down when we said hello. Ray continued taking things off the Christmas tree and I chopped onion and garlic for supper. Molli came and ate a late lunch--the last of the pork. Of course, there's more in the freezer!

The four of us went to the dollar movie--Cloud Atlas. I made Elisa come, since I had not even seen her all day. It seemed odd to force someone to come to the movies. We all really liked it. It is an amazing movie. Many amazing costumes, sets and complicated makeup as the plot(s) went back and forth over about 500 years, including aboard a sailing ship in the 1700s and space ships in the 24th century. Somewhat depressing, as the planet is predicted to revert to primitive savagery and become uninhabitable, yet oddly uplifting as well. Love, truth... One of my favorites in a while, although it doesn't bear close examination in some ways. The main actors (Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, and many other amazing people) play as many as six different parts in the different stories. Incredible acting and technical work and beautiful, dizzying filmmaking. I look forward to seeing it again. Warning: incredibly violent, with graphic sex scenes.

I finished supper when we got home and we ate after eight again. Molli packed a suitcase and some food and left before supper.

I was pretty keyed up and didn't want to watch any TV. We worked on the puzzle some and read for a while, so it was after 11 when we went to sleep, unfortunately.