Not much knitting last night, I cleaned house.

Just after finishing scrubbing the kitchen floor, I sat down on the sofa and suddenly remembered: uh oh. I was supposed to call about jury duty between 4 and 5, now it's nearly 6.

Fortunately, the organist at the church I belong to is also on duty, so I called her. She said there were no new cases before July 3, that's the next day to call in. (I called the court clerk this morning just to verify). So, whoo-hoo, looks like I'm going to be able to finish out my teaching without jury-fu.

There was quite a storm last night; it is unusual to get rain this time of the summer here (usually there is a drought from mid-June until August or so). When I got up this morning, a turtle was taking shelter next to my trash can. Based on my description to the herp guy here, it turns out to be a three-toed box turtle (picture on the link). Cute little guy. I hope he stays. Just as long as he doesn't munch any low-hanging tomatoes. Well, ok, maybe one or two. He is pretty cute.

I'm thinking that this afternoon, or Friday, I will have the prairie proposal as finished as it's gonna be, so Saturday is going to be a Retail Therapy day for me. I think I'm going to head down to McKinney again and spend the day walking around, window shopping, going to a tea room for lunch, hitting the Target, and generally enjoying being somewhere that is Not Here.