Ten.Seven Hundred & Eighty-Eight

1. Slow start.

2. No school for them today so I take my time and make hash browns and bacon, coffee.

3. It’s hard to believe how close we are to being together again, to returning to the ranch. Now, it’s time to put together all the little pieces, the details. And the to-do lists feel a little long but doable.

4. I pull in two minutes late. It’s my own fault. I lost track of time.

5. They are kind, from Ohio, pet-sitting for their daughter while she’s off celebrating a birthday. He loves Merlot, she doesn’t really know what she loves, but she knows it’s definitely not port.

6. Accidentally on purpose?

7. Beginner’s mind.

8. A little bit of space can be a good thing.

9. Gloam. Can a person be the personification of Gloam? I sometimes feel like I am just that—that period of time right after the sun sets but before night falls, the quiet glow.

10. Tillamook Marionberry Pie Ice Cream.