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Just in case today runs like yesterday, I wanted to post a blog before the day gets away from us. I’m wearing a black baby-doll shirt that says, “Evil Keeps Me Young.” One, it’s a fun shirt, first chance I’ve gotten to wear it. Two, it suits my mood. I’ve been trying for light and positive and my mood is all over the place. Today I’ll try for black, and cynical and see if that helps the mood to stabilize. Jon is sitting beside me in the other bar stool with our big puppy, Pippin, in his lap. Pip is nearly sixty pounds, but he still likes being a lap dog, especially if we’re sitting somewhere tall. He likes a view. Don’t we all? It rained all day and into the night yesterday. It was a hard, cold, autumn rain. I love days like that, always have. Our Domestic Officer, Sherry, said, her, too. One of her relatives commented on her liking for such days with this, “You can take the girl out of Ireland, but you can’t take Ireland out of the girl.” I think it’s a comment on the weather in Ireland. Neither Sherry nor I have ever gone, so we don’t know for certain, but we are both of Irish ancestry. I think she’s got more direct Irish roots. Some of my family is from the border between Scotland and England, which makes us Scottish, and my grandfather’s surname is Irish, plus living in the hills of Arkansas there are a lot more families of Irish and Scottish ancestry, and everyone intermarried. So, I guess I’m Scotch/Irish, but I believe Sherry’s family can trace their Irish heritage to actual towns and places. Anyway, here’s the blog, when Jon hears back from a few people we’ll post a little more news. The phone is ringing, the timer has rung for tea, and thus the day begins.