deborahjross | Vacayyyytion!

Tomorrow lunchtime ish, lovely husband and I depart on the first vacation we've taken together in about 4 years. We'll be driving up the West Coast, visiting various relations and friends and kindred spirits and writerly folk, those categories being not mutually exclusive.

So of course the last few days have been mayhem, getting Lace and Blade in shape to leave it, ditto the

rainbowafghan project. Ditto two novels in progress. Ditto the garden... or was, until Dave went out into the orchard and realized we had to harvest all the pears (only 2 trees, but two very happy and prolific trees) or we'd lose the crop. So he picked, I peeled and canned about half -- 4 quarts -- (plus the same amount of windfall apples), and we stored the rest in the crisper drawer of the refrigerator, where they will think it's winter and ripen slowly.

Needless to say, I am exhausted and frazzled, and very much looking forward to getting in the car tomorrow because then It Will Be Over.

I'll check in tomorrow morning, but probably not again for 2 1/2 weeks.