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Sleepovers successful. One at our house, one at a nearby friend’s. It’s damp, gray, and cold outside, which is too bad because I need some outdoor activity. Yesterday in front of the TV was lovely and perhaps needed, but it was enough. Then we had a nice dinner out, followed by the remains of the chocolate-chip cookie disaster and I went to bed so full, which is a feeling that I cannot stand. And just now I ate two pancakes for absolutely no reason except that they looked good. I wasn’t hungry and now I’m full again and I can’t stand it. I want to go out on a trail or at least stretch my legs around a park, but I don’t see it working out. Not with this weather and not with post-sleepover kids. Maybe instead I’ll look for kitchen tables online and see what I can find. Or I’ll play with old photos. I still cannot figure out how blogger access my photos or which ones it chooses. Here’s one made available to me. It seems to be Will at the Starbucks on Limestone Rd. I guess we were rea...

The cat is walking around in circles, waiting for her dinner to drop from the automatic feeder. It is just after 5 so it will come soon and somehow she knows it. Looking out the glass door to the backyard I see the sun is still up, but it’s gray out and the deck is wet. It must have rained in the last couple of hours since we got home from our lunch outing. A dead mosquito plant is still sitting there in its large pot, droopy and brown. I meant to get rid of last fall before the snow fell, but I guess I didn’t get to it. That’s what spring is for—finishing up the stuff that didn’t get done in the fall. The boys are playing video games in the next room. They are speaking cheerfully to each other, for once. The last few weeks, maybe a couple of months now, have been rough between the two of them. The rivalry, the petty arguing, the roughhousing. It’s all been getting to me. I don’t love video-game time, but it is an interest that they share and it keeps the peace on a low-key Saturda...