Friday morning work party consisted of one tedious task . . . 

Five of us were home. All five went to work. Then Joseph realized he’d be late for work if he didn’t stop and get ready. Came back outside and hugged each of us in turn before heading downtown. Nice surprise! Though I didn’t catch any embraces with my ipad.

So then there were four . . . (Me too, I was working between Val, on left, and Adam, on right.)

This was a first for “city boy” Adam, who moved in several months ago, and works assiduously with us on whatever is required. A couple of weeks ago,  he told me, excited, that Marita, on far left, had started to teach him how to compost!

Here’s Adam, hard at work.

Oops! Still more!

A few days ago, Annie and Marita decorated their porch area in a seasonally appropriate way.

Looks good. However, see the rocks piled on the left of the sidewalk? That used to be a lavender bed, but the neighborhood cats, a long time ago, dedicated it to their own urine. And lavender is supposedly a plant that cats avoid . . ! So Marita took out the lavender, and piled rocks there. That seems to have done the trick; however, it appears now, given the continued odor, that the cats have been using the entire front of the house area. Now what?

Such is life in our “tiny little paradise.”