Please overlook my little lapse of sanity.  I’m back.  I think.

I’m a little off my game, what with the different overnights schedule (Jess and I are alternating nights).  It does break up the tedium a little, except that I’m at Avdi’s most of the time anyway.  I can’t keep track of what day it is!

I made erev dinner for, as it turned out, only five-ish people.  I say “ish”, because Jess joined us briefly, and Y darted in and out for leftovers, like a rat.  He says he doesn’t like to be with “the people” (his family).  I made a pretty good meal, starting with SQ’s request (craving) cheese ravioli in alfredo sauce.  I also made meatballs in pasta sauce, roasted veggies (some from the garden), a fresh garden tomato, basil. and parmesan salad, and some sides.  And of course, challah, (Loucious’s obsession).

It’s back to blazing hot, after the recent deluge (here we got almost an inch and a half, but other places it was more like two).  I managed to go out and clean up some of the wreckage of E’s last party on the back patio.  Mostly I just gave Loucious a big hose-down (and me in the process).  I took one photo today–a ‘shroom.

I don’t mean to sound ungrateful–I am very grateful.  I’m finally where I should be, after all the misguided detours.  I earned all the bad karma I received.  I can’t go back and do a twelve-stepper, but I can pay it forward, STS.