Taking into account the in and around travel of the trip, it was 2,541 miles from the time I left until my return late on Thursday. Mother Nature was mostly kind, although that luck didn’t hold as I traveled back with a lot of rain. On the other hand, it was mostly light to medium rain, so it could have been worse and there were surprisingly few wrecks to tie things up. Not actually related to wrecks, I do hope there are a number of baby armadillos running around since I lost count of the dead ones that I saw on the side of the road.

It’s time for me to catch up on things of course and as much as I would love to dash up to D.C. for the Bowen McCauley “Victory Road” performance, I just don’t think I’ll be able to do that. (http://www.bmdc.org) Hubby had completed some more tasks as we check off the to-do list for truly having the house completed. The new bar stools came in and the new step stool arrived. An interesting note on the step stool as part of the safety warning – Do not use while under the influence of alcohol. I do understand the lawyers’ insistence upon such language being included, but I did have to grin while reading that. Well, maybe there is a reason that we keep the booze and booze-related glasses within easy reach. We continued with re-hanging some more artwork yesterday and should finish the rest of it this weekend. That will also free up the space in the other rooms that have been used for storage over the past two-plus months. Whether or not the extra items in the back yard get sorted out this weekend remains to be seen. Several things migrated out there and I’m not entirely sure I have a spot for a couple of them to come back inside.