In an hour or so I'll be heading to Vermont, where I'll be staying for the next several days, or longer. My dad may be getting out of the hospital today, and I need to be on the spot in the house when he arrives. So, first, coffee; then hauling cot mattress, bedding, zoom equipment, etcetera, etcetera, into the hot little non-air-conditioned car for the steamy drive west.

All of my tiredness is resurfacing, and I'm teary about leaving T in the midst of our weekend together, but this is the ways things are and must be.

At least I've got a new library book to keep me company.