It's funny how I am fully experiencing every day lately. Not like sometimes, where only looking back do you realize how great a day was, or how much you liked something.

For example, today is a day to remember. The painters are here, and plastic is draped all over everything. The kitchen was totally taped and plasticized before I realized I was hungry so while they were out in their cars eating I untaped a couple of places and grabbed the bread and peanut butter. I then went back in the office, where both birds and their cages are sitting on a big blue tarp...and putting a silice of bread on my knee, smeared on peanut butter and folded it over. Just like when I was a kid.

The painters are listening to Olivia Newton John singing Grease, and a couple of the painters are talking to each other in Spanish.

It's been raining off and on so I have gone outside a few times to work on the photinia hedge and then get driven back inside when it starts up again.

I have a lot of outdoor work that I've been saving for this week, so I'm disappointed by the rain...but it is a happy day today, and we're still making good progress. ¡Somos casi listos!