was evening and morning

Ray and Britany are away on a business trip in the Bahamas (no, really), Lilly staying with her grandmother Mimi, so we three are minding the lovely new house this workweek. Exhausted and early to bed, I was roused by Father Nature in the wee hours and stayed up. Checked email then tried to slumber on the family room couch but, sleep apparently escaping me, I made a cup of hot, black coffee and sipped it on the back screen porch along with admiring the total silence and reading Fox and BBC news on computer screen. 

Ray has some kind of wi-fi boosters all over the house so that service is perfect everywhere, I'm not used to wi-fi this good and will ask his help to replicate it once Linda and I are back in 7H. 

Little too chilly for me after nearly an hour outside and the hot coffee gone, so back inside and made predawn breakfast of toasted extra thin ww bread, lightly buttered; with half a chicken breast covered in hot sauce, necessitating a tall glass of ice water to extinguish the stomach flames. Good, hot, fiery tongue in the mouth, but searing stomach calling the fire department.

Trip into town for Monday morning staff meeting at church yesterday followed by visit to dermatology clinic where the specialist thought to distract me by talking full speed about the working life of Jimmy Buffett while cutting a piece out of my high forehead, nice try, hurt like hell for a moment anyway. Sam's Club pharmacy this morning for antibiotics to guard against any infection reaching the tissue heart valve, as always when cut into, no big deal, normal now.    


On the back porch about sundown last evening the once heavily treed green area behind us was alive with frogs singing, but silence now. Who has frogs for lunch, alligators possibly, IDK, snakes?