Monday, February 23, 2026

Jigsaw Puzzle (this one was a mystery who-dun-it)

 

Saturday morning my throat felt funny but I thought it was because the house gets so dry in the winter.  By the time I went to bed I knew I had a cold - I was taking lozenges for my throat and I had a little congestion in my lungs.  Pretty sure I didn't catch it at the election but probably at Thursday night's volunteer duty where little kids were coming and going.  The church I go to now doesn't have a 'greeting' time where everyone shakes hands w/ your neighbor but decided I could easily still spread the cold just by sitting and coughing in the pew.  Decided to keep my cold to myself and stayed home.  

A good day to finish taxes.  I had pretty good timing on installing the solar array.  For the first time in a long while I'm getting back a chunk of change from the Feds and the State.  Also this is the last year I could take a deduction for them.  Maybe in a few years when we no longer live in a fact-free country, energy efficiency deductions will return.   I'm still very old school and printed out everything and put it in envelopes for mailing.  Monday morning I took the envelopes to the post office and let the postmistress make sure they had proper postage.  I did take precautions like keeping a step back from the counter and keeping the interaction brief.  Hopefully, she won't catch my cold either.

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