My Dad seems to be doing well. Yesterday, he went to an OLLI class about mushrooms--and brought me home a "log" innoculated with shitakes--that we have to keep watered until November! We looked at the seeds we have and made a chart of how many to plant. 36 tomatoes, 12 peppers, 6 eggplants...planning to give away the old seeds. We had lots of rain Tuesday morning and today is supposed to be sunny again.

Monday I zipped home after class. Elisa was still asleep--no school for Presidents' Day. I peeled and cut up the butternut squash--more than 6 pounds of it! We microwaved it while we ate lunch. Then Elisa pureed it with the immersion blender and we added butter and brown sugar. I stuffed the turkey and told her when to put it in the oven.

I headed to my afternoon class. Afterwards, Ray and I rushed home and picked her up for choir rehearsal at 5. He brought her home at 7. Meanwhile, my Dad had peeled the potatoes and we had boiled them. Molli came home and mashed them. I made the gravy. The turkey was done an hour early or so. It was delicious. Molli said, "we forgot the sweet potatoes!" She threw them in the oven to bake and took them out when they were done, scooping out the inside and mushing them up with butter. It was quite a success and we have lots of leftovers. Oh, I made the pumpkin pie in the morning before we left. We ate it with whipped cream after a few hands of (non-cancellation) Hearts.

Yesterday was all day at the Council on Aging. Kate, my boss, is quite sick. She may have pneumonia. She has a terrible cough that hurts. I told her to go home, but she had too much to do, including a training for volunteers. I made copies of handouts and helped proofread a power point presentation. The presenting was done by other Council on Aging staff, since she had no voice.

Again we rushed home to take Elisa to choir. Ray drove her and then came back. He and I ate turkey and potatoes and squash and broccoli and rushed back for the performance at 6:30. Molli met us there. Unfortunately, we were a few minutes late. The doors were locked and we missed more than half of the singing.

Watched an episode of Castle and read some after eating pie.