Yes, we are home from our short vacation, and happy to be. We had a fabulous trip, nice and relaxed, and a good trip home. But no matter how good the trip home is, by the end of it we’re always very, very happy to get there.

The cats are talking to us, the vegetable garden is half again as high as we left it a week ago, and the clematis and the honeysuckle burst into bloom recently.

I’ll try to throw down some stuff that happened over the next couple of days so I have a reference for myself. But in brief, I did not buy a spinning wheel, a cello case, or an orchestral tuner. I did, however, read three entire books, and a chunk of a fourth, went to two museums, and held a ten-day-old baby.