Just made my first For Sale listing on eBay. This is a scan of an 1895 Morgan dollar. It was minted in San Francisco and is rare enough that when I took it to a dealer to find out what I could about it, he said "You've just made my day!"

Everett's gone with Scott and his sister to see a buffalo farm outside the next town. I'm still in my pyjamas at 12:55 p.m. Well, it took me a long time to figure out that eBay listing!

I am reading Vincent Lam's award-winning Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures and wondering why it is so highly praised. I'm on page 47 and don't give two shits about the characters or their story. If they don't come alive soon, this book will go back to the library unread.

Agatha Christie's The Secret Adversary is far more exciting, and I'm in the early pages of The Thin Place by Kathryn Davis and Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert.

Today we (I mean the boys) have to peel 10 pounds of spuds. Tomorrow the potatoes will be boiled, mashed and delivered to the Legion Hall in town, where the high school students are putting on their annual fundraising fall supper. We donate mashed potatoes or meatballs on alternate years, but have never partaken of the meal.

Emil thinks I should get dressed today.

Now Playing in my office: Emil making breathy, giggly noises on the loveseat behind me

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