From time to time the baby lifts her shirt to look at her stomach. I think she's just checking to make sure her belly button is still there.

Taking my dear, lovely wife to lunch for her birthday. Yay.

The missus got called for THREE cases. All domestic violence ones. Go figure.

Mama's got jury duty, so today it's me and Sophie against the world...

"Entertaining" tonight. I think it's been seven or eight years since my wife and I had anyone over besides family. We're such shut ins...

Cleaning the kitchen, listening to Watership Down and, yeah, crying a little bit. It's a perfect book, maybe my favorite of all...

Defying the heat, frying chicken and deviling some eggs... Yay.

Too damn hot... flops around weakly

...tap taptaptap . . . tap . . . tap, tap . . . tap tap tap tap taptaptap tap . . . tap, tap . . . taptaptaptaptaptap . . . tap, tap, tap...

Spending the afternoon driving my son around to look for a job.
Fortunately, I get to sneak in some writing here and there along the way…