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I know! He really wanted to lay out there this morning but he'd be barking at the fence guys constantly.

When we were planning this years trips (small and large) I did an Excel spreadsheet where I listed the tasks to be accomplished for each trip, who was responsible, and assigned priorities (1,2 or 3), A tool from my project planning days but it really helped in focusing on getting stuff done. Here is an image of a piece of it:

I still have work dreams 2 years after retiring. They are less frequent but I noticed an uptick after meeting with my work colleague last week! We didn't even talk about work much and she had a totally different job working at home reviewing medical charts!

117.4 - down 1.4 after a day when I had the hungry horrors and fed them. Weird!

So my 2 younger children left by late morning yesterday to avoid the Cape bridge traffic (DS was successful at that but DD not so much since he left 2 hours earlier than them). I had forgotten that DSD was coming to stay for part of this week too! She arrived at 5. Luckily the deck had been swabbed and clean sheets etc. were back on the beds.

Today DSD will work here, then we are going to take SIL out for dinner. She isn't eating much but it is meatloaf Monday which usually goes down easily for her and will provide some good leftovers. Right now her biggest problems are her persistent back pain and lack of appetite. They want her to go back on Keytruda which early on worked dramatically in fighting the cancer essentially putting her in remission but with her weight so low all that is scary.

Today the fence construction continues so hopefully we can have a free range Justice in a couple of days. Tomorrow will be an early day for me so I may or may not post beforehand. DSD and I are going on the ferry to Martha's Vineyard for the day to scatter deceased DH's remaining ashes off of a sailboat. Most of his ashes are buried next to our eldest DD, some were scattered in Ireland by DS, and this is where he would want the rest to go.

Have a munificent Monday!

What an emotional family day you had! That can wring you out, though not necessarily in a bad way. I like the sound of DD's BF - sounds like a really good person who cares very much for DD.

The kids were less than thrilled with the loud bar too. It really was for post-college age folks talking loud and drinking with no shirts on the guys and the young girls in their bikini tops. My kids are 34 and 37, so a bit past all that. They liked the place with the band (not too loud) on the patio better.

Hopefully you had a nice slow day since you didn't feel fully rested, then a good sleep last night. Isn't it nice to know that even if not rested one day you can always make it up (no having to drag oneself to work feeling that way)?