I hope wonky just equals harmlessly funny looking, Scrappy.

Timelies all!

Hugs for all who need/want them.

Ouch, Scrappy! What is happening with the house debacle?

Thank you for asking, wonderful Laura! After literally 8 different payment/lease/mortgage plans were shot down by the loan place, we think we have one that will work. Our buyer is purchasing our back three acres now , then leasing our barn until October, when he makes a last payment to pay off our mortgage here. Don’t ask my why this the “best” financial course, but that is what we’ve been told. So, we basically sold our house today!!!!! If some crazy new snag comes up and the mortgage is not approved, we’ll lose our 15k earnest money, but we’ll be able to stay here until we find another house.

Oh that sounds like a good work around. Will keep the ~ma headed your way.

Did my Covid test and all is well so I’ll fly to Florida Saturday. May need a spacesuit for my stay there! Still feel like crap but my theory is the body aches are from lifting weights and the congestion this crappy weather. I just had to check before getting on a plane.

Good luck Scrappy, and sympathies to everyone dealing with family & health issues. It's a lot.

I'm glad I just ordered some new cloth masks; my old ones were looking pretty ratty. Sigh.

I wasn't able to log in remotely from home the last few days, so I went to the office after training today, and discovered that the network there was down as well. Joy.

Tonight is my last night of dog-sitting, for which I am grateful. I miss having my fan in my bedroom, and there's too much to eat in this house. Also handling 3 dogs just takes more time than handling one, especially since I have to run outside and scoop the apples off the ground every time I let the dogs out -- they eat the fallen apples and get diarrhea. Which if you're a St. Bernard, that's something devoutly to be avoided.

I will also report (because it is raining) that Maria’s daughter laughed at us for going to the library on vacation ( we originally did this because you can check out free passes to the Susan B Anthony House). Today we returned them, I went for a little tour and then we spent hours in the local history area, which had a lot of binders wit printed out emails. It was amazing Libraries are great,

Libraries are great! Mine has been doing sleepovers for stuffed animals, and it is the cutest thing I have ever seen. [link]

A paper on the effects of Ohio’s vaccination lottery: [link]

we find that Ohio’s incentive scheme increases the vaccinated share of state population by 1.5 percent (0.7 pp), costing sixty-eight dollars per person persuaded to vaccinate. We show this causes significant reductions in COVID-19, preventing at least one infection for every six vaccinations that the lottery had successfully encouraged.

Well, I got my test results back within the hour and they were negative. I'm keeping my test appointment on Monday.