The Postal Service has been doing well. I posted the gift pictured below on Thursday and it arrived half the country away yesterday. I could ask for nothing better.

Yesterday was a gorgeous day, unseasonably warm for November with clear, sunlit sky. Today is supposed to be more of the same and I can hardly wait to see it. The sky is currently becoming lighter and showing color.

This has been an unusual week for our son the firefighter. His department was called to assist a neighboring community Thursday night. The house was a total loss. He feels that effective firefighting was hampered by some unusual construction techniques. Yesterday just before dinner he was called to a fire in our community. It was a large, expensive house. It did not fall into the basement but does have extensive damage.