Thursday, September 5

Today I am grateful for:

More warm weather. I am so enjoying it.

More basement being dug, and our yard is in a state of great disarray with piles of dirt, concrete, lumber, old decks, and on and on. I am glad to see progress, though.

My husband helped my move the flower bed that keeps getting driven on and keeps stressing me out. It really was in the way, and making things harder for the guys, even though maybe the guys were only trying so hard. It was a fair amount of work at one go, and I was frustrated to have to do it, but now I shouldn't have to worry about it.

Getting to town to buy groceries again. It was another big trip; when you are eating every meal at home, and trying to get extra junk food for your somewhat too skinny sweetie, and getting things to feed to the guys helping us, it amounts to a lot of food. I don't want to shop more than once a week, so I'm trying to get enough to do this.

At least our evenings have been fairly calm, if subdued by stress and hard work.

Bamboo.

I got a "Bamboo" drawing pad yesterday. It allows you to use the drawing program in your computer, and this pad with a stylus, so that it's more like drawing with a pen or brush. I found it a lot easier to use than the mouse (I had played with the basic Paint program in Windows, but I found it too awkward to use a mouse). I really like using the stylus, and I can see myself doing this when I can't set up my paints.