Daily Handbasket: A Testing Kind of Day

Thursday started early, and is ending a bit late. Long days make me grouchy, even when they end with my favorite local pizza restaurant, and chocolate soft serve from Dairy Queen. (Available ONLY on Thursday, which I don’t quite understand.) The electrician arrived at 7:00 a.m. to repair some squirrel-chewed wires and a bad socket. I would tell you how many weeks I’ve been without an oven, but it would embarrass us both. We also no longer have to plug in the microwave a long counter away.

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