Good morning my friends. I woke up at one point and The Beautiful One was gone out of the bed. She rescued me from Podrick who woke up a couple of hours earlier. He’s starting to slow down a little now. Hopefully, he won’t be like yesterday – full speed all morning, and just as I was leaving, he passed out.

The air quality dropped yesterday afternoon/evening. Slowly but surely the haze and smoke smell slowly started creeping back into the area. That didn’t stop people from coming in. Thankfully for last night and tonight, we have three people in at night. It’ll help because we have another delivery coming in tonight. Just looking quickly out the window, it doesn’t seem like the haze is out there right now.

All that stands between me and a day off, is a simple 8 hour shift. It’ll go very good tonight, I can feel it in my bones. We’ll make the store look good, and get out some drinks when they come in. it’ll also be a good weekend, I open on Saturday, and then I’m working all Sunday. I think it’ll be a pretty good weekend, with possible rain on Sunday, but that’s ok as well.

But it’s a bright and sunny day so far. I can hear the birds are singing out the back door. The kittens are quiet, so I’m really hoping that they’re sharing the back table. Maybe they are. They’ve done it in the past, and as soon as one of us goes to look, Podrick starts something with Pippin.

Update: nope, Pippin is on the fridge, brooding. Podrick is lounging on the back table. thankfully, Pippin has been holding her ground, and standing up to him. They’ll get better and better, and one winter afternoon, one of us will walk into the bedroom, and they’ll be curled up snuggled in the nest.

I hope.