It took two trips out to the store to get everything that was supposed to be on my shopping list for the day. Before I left Nina said she needed a mailing tube to send some Japanese washi paper to her sister in South Carolina. She also called me as I was driving up town to add furnace filters to the list along with the reminder to pick up a mailing tube. I got the filters, everything else on the list … except the mailing tube.

When she asked me about the tube when I got home, it was an “Oh, crap!” moment. But, I also needed something to afix a painting from Nina’s sister to an old picture frame. That provided two items on the shopping list, making it worth another trip to town. I stopped at Kinko’s to pick up the mailing tubes. Then came a dilemma: what size? Not knowing for sure, I got a two-foot and a three-foot tube. We can return the one that isn’t needed.

The picture is now in the frame and ready to go on the wall. Pictures will be forthcoming, I’m sure of it.

Nina, however, spent most of the day doing family history research. She’s been seriously trying to link a couple of people together. There are lots of clues, most confusing rather than clarifying the issue. She’s over at her computer mumbling (and sometimes grumbling). Eventually she’ll tease out the answer!

I think I’m coming down with a cold. Dang! I was seriously hoping I could get through the winter without one. That likely won’t be the case. So, it’ll be off to be early tonight to see if I can get ahead of whatever is ailing me. Maybe my nose will stop running!

Ta ta for now!