By this time, I hope you're recovering from your
long weekend on service. Mommy and I are well.
It's been raining, yesterday and today; the forecast
is for rain the rest of the week. I have started
to set up the surveillance cameras. The images
from the two that I have placed - on the east and
north sides of the house, seem quite satisfactory.
For the installation of the other two, I require
some BCN connectors, which should have been, but
curiously were not, included with the 50 ft. cables
that I bought from Microcenter. I'll order these on
the Internet tomorrow, when I have ascertained what
if anything else I need. The lawn isn't wide enough
and the house is too large to make it possible to
get images of two sides with a single camera. My
tentative plan is to position all four cameras
outside, - which is probably just as well, since
Jeane will be coming into the house, and would
disturb the kind of markers that I used on Nantucket.

As I think about Nantucket, I come to the conclusion
that the real issue is not the legal dispute but my
advancing age, and that, plumbing and electrical work
aside, I don't see how I can finish the project 
without a great deal of help from you or from one or
more of the children. Time will tell. I will understand
and I won't be hurt if it turns out that everyone else
has more important things to do.

The atmosphere here seems calmer and quieter than ever.
The hedge is growing relentlessly both in width and in
height. I'm relieved to have stopped worrying about 
maintaining or creating a view, but it's now encroaching
on the drive way under the maple tree, - and I will have
to do something about that. The only leak in the heavy
rain that we had today was around the window in the south
west corner of the porch. I should be able to do something
about that. All the remaining gutters at the front of the
house are stopped with leaves which I will clean out when
the weather improves.