Wiping his brow with his t-shirt.  It was a hot one today.  Didn't envy these moving guys.



Very relieved to have finally made contact with my Portland neighbor, I was beginning to fear the worst but today I got a reply letter to a card I had sent by mail.    She's legally blind (but has all sorts of wonderful magnifying tools that the Oregon Commission for the Blind has provided her) and extremely deaf so we depend heavily on email communication.  I learned her computer isn't working but she is otherwise full of vim and vigor as always and is looking forward to our usual coffee catch up!  Thank goodness that REAL mail still exists.  I will see her next week.  Hooray!