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I drank some caffeinated tea right before bed last night, and it kicked in and woke me up at about 5:30 am. I couldn’t go back to sleep if I wanted to.

My book project is coming along, a little bit at a time, children permitting. I reached the point where it was useful to set myself a deadline for it.
I really want to build myself a fiddle from scratch, but I’m trying to restrain myself a little until the book is done. [...]

MFH finally talked me into visiting Costco. This was my comment on the way out: “It’s an Aldi’s for rich people!” There were long lines at the checkout and another line at the door to get out; it gave me the impression of customers being herded like cattle.
I used to shop at [...]

The other day, I was praying a little at the beginning of the day, and kind of got directed toward Lady Lydia’s, where she has been doing a whole series on dresses she has sewn. Then came a little push to spend some time sewing.
I had a project in mind, some scrap denim to [...]

I was offline for a week, then off on vacation for two, then jumping back into getting the housework and laundry under control.
The vacation went well. We took the Manitowoc-Ludington ferry this year; very smooth trip. No throwing up this time. Went fishing and to a few Great Lakes beaches (Lake Michigan [...]