Labor Day Weekend

Saturday: don't rightly remember. I got a ways into "To Say Nothing of the Dog", which has been on my reading list for quite a while and I've finally gotten to it. Connie Willis tells a superb Victorian humor ("humour"?) story, but it's true to period in that it's dense in the verbiage department. Slows my already-slow reading speed. Oh, and the Red Sox won, just like they did on Friday.

Sunday: pool/barbecue party at a friends' place. Met people I know I've met before, but now have names and pointers to. (Hi, coebird!) Had good relaxing time. Later, started Stephanie Meyer's "Twilight", which goes right along-side "Reviving Ophelia" in terms of watching adolescent girls make bad choices. alyveritya has already read all four of the books in that Meyer series.

Monday: Officially "Labor Day", which is a holiday I've never understood. Celebrate work by not doing it? Anyway, Thag sawed off some dead branches from our remaining peach tree, and then sawed out the old flat boards that goddessfarmer said would not work as roosts in the chicken coop, and nailed in the fruitwood branches that should work much better. Thag also put wood filler into the gap in the front door-jamb, but that does not appear to be working. Thag may have to chisel that out (which will be easy if it crumbles) and then get a very small block of wood to affix in its place. But this will happen before the cold weather sets in. *nod*

Today: alyveritya's first day of school. The younger starts tomorrow morning. Getting out of the house on time could have gone smoother.