As Memorial Day comes to an end, I’m glad tomorrow will be a regular work day – it may well be easier than the holiday!

Was awake just after five this morning to take Basil and Cathy to the airport for an early flight to Florida, where they’ll be for a couple of days attending some special services.

After a trip to the gym, I started working on getting the back yard ready for summer. We have a few new odds and ends, each of which came with the precarious notice – Some assembly required. I hate that phrase. It seems that while our friends in China excel in producing goods for pennies that retailers can sell here for an arm and a leg, they haven’t yet mastered the last part of the process – joining everything up so that it resembles the picture on the box and not a tangled mass of bits, with a little plastic package of insufficient screws and instructions written in some oriental form of the English language.

It looks pretty good out the back now and if the weather holds, maybe I’ll start reading the paper out there in the morning instead of at the kitchen table. A sure sign summer is almost here!