Greetings@#$%^

I haven't been able to add much for the past few weeks -- things have skidded to a halt because I am doubly incapacitated. Both my finger and my camera are broken. So -- typing is modified hunt and peck and there are no new pictures! In spite of these drawbacks, the driveway is almost finished -- a very nice pea gravel that crunches underfoot -- and we have slipped into more of a summer schedule. The house in Pittsburgh is being repainted. I am on jury duty. Olivia is home -- at least when she isn't out with her friends.

Here is a picture of my broken finger: