I am out of cigarettes. I get the three cartons today. Today will be a good day I feel like. Apart from my back pain that is! It will get better the pain: it comes and goes and I have not been bothered by my back for years. Birds are speaking in the yard. It is always lovely every morning of summer here. Very quiet. Especially when Bella is not outside, next door. 

The two dogs are asleep in the living room. A rare thing. Usually whiskey is upstairs or outside.