Remove

Going to work last night proved to be a mistake.  I ended up leaving early.  I spent most of the day after that in bed.  I am not in a significant amount of pain but I had broken sleep most of the day.  I've been up for a few hours and am ready for more sleep already.  I'm thinking this is a side effect of the muscle relaxants that I just didn't experience when I first started taking them.  

Here are happy things from today:

• When I left for work in the middle of the night there was a puffy layer of clouds between me and the moon.  It was beautiful and I tried to capture it with my phone camera.

• As a family we went out to dinner.  It was a lovely, warm day outside apparently.  We ate outside on a deck and enjoyed the evening air, good food, and family time.  I took some pictures of Keziah’s store before dinner.  She is getting things ready for Halloween Howl Friday night.  It should be fun.

These little balls should look bigger tomorrow. 

• The prompt for Inktober is Remove.  In the SCA, we call the different courses in a meal removes.  So the first remove might be chicken, veggies, and bread and the second remove might be beef, different veggies, and barley.  Usually, much more elaborate than that, but I hope, dear reader, you get the idea. What I tried to draw is someone preparing the next remove while someone is serving a remove, and someone eating.  I cut out the part with someone eating because I messed that up.

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Currently reading: Year of the Griffin, by Diana Wynne Jones. 

Thank you for being part of my happy things. Stay safe.

Chain

Today's happy things:

• It was my turn to open the store (DIY Craft & Thrift) today.  Keziah and Zed wanted to check out a local auction.  They dropped me off a little early.  It was weird to be alone in the store.  I got things ready to open.  Just before opening time I realized that I put my jacket down somewhere, with the keys to the store.  That one minute of rushing around trying to remember where I left it felt like five!  I found it, and the keys, and the door was opened on time.  
• Somehow, we are less than a week away from Concord, NH's Halloween Howl.  Stores along Main Street will be open later to allow Trick or Treaters to parade downtown and collect oodles of candy.  A person from the local newspaper asked Keziah if she was willing to use some of her space as a photo booth.  Costumed people can come in and take their own pictures with a Halloween backdrop.  This afternoon at the store we got an area mostly set up for the purpose.  Lighting proved to be a problem. There was too much coming down from the ceiling lights onto the top of our heads.  We covered one with a plastic bag and dulled the other with some chiffon fabric and it seems much better.  Yay!

• Chain is the Inktober prompt for today.  

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Currently listening to: Dark Lord of Derkholm, by Diana Wynne Jones.

Thank you for being part of my happy things. Stay safe.