D.O.P.-T. (day before yesterday)

Cool nights with wind - the first night enough to bang the store door a few times. Still cool, and cloudy, in the morning, but then it burns off and the sun is hot. Much better, and the dogs are happier on walkies.

D.O.P.-T. (yesterday)

The housemate found a solution to Bear's fear of the yard at night: we now take him out on leash through the side door to the driveway. I feel bad for the cats and birds that have been using the bushes out there, but his eyes are not at all good, so they should be safe if they hunker down. And eventually the rains will return and wash the pee away.

D.O.P.-T.

I took my annual week off a couple of weeks ago, so that I wouldn't lose it. On the supermarket trip just beforehand, in addition to laying in ingredients for cooking dinner from scratch, I bought three bath toys on impulse: an orange and yellow floatplane, a blue octopus, and a green crab. They've been surprisingly fun to play with.