LadyShadow, that's a great step! Congratulations on being at this point. I hope it won't be too long before I can write similar.

For some unknown reason, my street had a power outage between 3 pm and 10:30 pm yesterday. I made dinner early while there was still light (I manually lit my gas stove burners). We ended up falling asleep early so I woke up around 5 am fully awake.

I'm so sore from staining our deck yesterday. I'm not used to that kind of labor. It looks good, though. We'll be receiving our new deck furniture this weekend.