This is the last week day of my 2 week vacation. I am in a pleasant, nearly comatose state of peace and rest. And indolence. All the knots have been worked out. My skin and back and mind and organs are RELAXED. If you did an MRI reading of my brain on this last day of vacation, you would see very little activity. The brain cells and stressed cells are sitting on the beach with little umbrella drinks soaking up the sun.

It's been pretty rainy all week. Yesterday and a few other days, I've spent hours working on my 9 patch feed sack quilt. That thing SOAKS UP TIME!!! But I put my new old sewing machine and new old lamp on my unfinished desk in a spot in my room. It's very satisfying to have a legitimate, if humble and starving student-looking, setup. Of course, it's hard not to have fabric all over the floor and bed and ironing board and dresser....

Last night, after everybody was tucked in, I lounged on the couch and unaccustomly watched a bunch of TV. I did the dishes at 1:15 a.m., which was when I good and felt like it.

On my way to and fro, going by Will's room, I was wondering why I smelled something uriney coming from that direction. My Nancy Drew sleuthing quickly led me to, brace yourself, the floor heat vent. Yeahhhhh.......how convenient for a little boy to have in-floor "plumbing" in his room. Do you know how hard it is to clean up that kind of thing? I would have loved to have poured soapy water down that vent to flush it, but I figure that would be quite wrong. And then the carpet and pad right around and under the edge of the vent, where you can lift it off was soaked in urine concentrate. Febreeze has been my friend for quite awhile. I ended up taking the sprayer off and POURING IT ALL AROUND that edge. And when some went down the hatch, not a bad thing. Yes, I did this in the wee hours. When I talked to him about it this morning, he said he had seen Windy and Max (dog and cat) using it. (He was very smooth with this ready explanation. We are not politicians. "I don't recall....") And no, I didn't spank him, but last night, it sounded really tempting. But we had a real GOOD CHAT.

SWIMMIN' HOLE!!!