I saw the sun this morning. It was shining when I woke up, but it comes and goes behind the clouds. The wind is blowing, and it’s cold.

I didn’t make a list today. I still need to do more laundry and vacuum the litter area, but these are now suggestions. Yesterday I watered the plants and considered myself industrious. My standards get lower every day.

When I was a teacher, there was only one way to duplicate material in my school, on the ditto machine. I’d type on the stencil, the master copy, then put it on the machine’s cylinder and keep turning it until I had the right number of copies. When I passed out copies to my class direct from the ditto machine, my students always sniffed the pages. Ditto had a unique smell. Later, I learned the smell came from the ditto machine’s duplicating fluid, a mix of methanol and isopropanol.

The only homework paper, other than spelling words, I remember from elementary school was all about coins and how to make change. I remember there were pictures of coins and math problems like adding or subtracting, but I already knew about coins. A penny bought candy, a nickel bought ice cream from Johnny our ice cream man, a dime bought a balsa plane from Woolworth’s and a quarter bought the world. The only time I saw paper money was on my birthday.

I thought I had bugs, black bugs. I could see them here and there on the floor. I used a Kleenex to pick up a couple and threw them away. I didn’t look for fear they’d jump free. Yesterday I looked. No bugs, just a small ball of fur, a really small ball of black fur.

Henry is driving me crazy. He is howling at my neighbor across the street who is out in his yard. I guess I should let him bark. The poor dog has little to bark at now.

I hate looking behind the curtain. I’d choose magical any time.

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