It’s been a slow few days here – we’ve spent most of the time puttering around the house, watching TV, and catching up with the friends we hadn’t seen for a month.  I’ve gotten feedback that you people like lists, so here’s a list of the things I’ve fixed:

• Fixed poorly located water heater strap
• Flushed water heater
• Replaced missing but non-critical roof rake tile (which has been on my list for literally four years)
• Fixed gate latch on fence
• Re-mortared some damaged brickwork

We also began planning next week’s trip to Yellowstone and the Tetons, but this morning Cynthia came down with a nasty stomach bug.  Two suspects here – our recent international travel, or the flu that all some friends had last week.  Everyone we’ve seen had already gotten over it, but they were all here making themselves at home on Sunday and theoretically contaminating everything with their poor hygiene.  She’s miserable and there’s not much I can do about it – I’m making Jello and some chicken soup but as of this moment she can’t keep anything down.  Hopefully she’ll be feeling better tomorrow, or we’ll be forced to start cancelling some reservations.  The silver lining is the flexibility of sabbatical means moving dates around a bit is no big deal.

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