First we weeded a neighbor’s rose garden. She does not get around as well as she used to, since a plow truck ran over her several years ago.

Our youngest found a garden snail while we were there, so we made a habitat in a jar for it when we got home.

A friend who saw the tarp on our roof (dormers are being put in) stopped in to see if we needed anything (he is a roofer).

We made the kids a grilled-cheese & tomato soup dinner (to be followed by popcorn and their own movies while we are out.)

Then we fed the barn.

Then the dogs got skunked.

Then my boys were interrupting me in the back recesses of my closet while I was looking for something to wear, because they wanted the BB gun (to hunt the skunk with.)

Then my daughter decided we were NOT going out without her.

Guess what? We actually made it out. It was 9:45 pm when we left. We reached civilization at 10:pm. Nobody serves food after 10:pm. -- not even nachos. So…we bought a bag of white corn chips and went home to make our own snack. We watched a movie comfortably in our living room, while the kids watched theirs on a computer (and another, on a laptop.)

I had a wonderful night!