Casper is still hanging around the outside of the house. Today he came with me for a walk. He likes to be held and picked up and fed. He let me hold him all the way from the house down the camp road and back. The other outside cats have their routines where they disappear and go do things but Casper doesn’t know his way around as much yet.

I took him down to the beach. He seemed interested in the canoes but I wasn’t in the mood to stay down there very long. It’s sad to me when the beach turns cold and we aren’t able to swim in the lake anymore. Until the ice returns there doesn’t seem to be much point in being down there.

Cats really are cute. They have brought us so much amusement over the years of living here. When we homeschooled there was always some kind of cat drama happening during school time. The two sisters would be fighting up in a tree. Our neighbor’s dog would be chasing another one. Kittens joined us while kids worked in the schoolroom.

Today I spent some time going through my assignments and combining them into a single list with due dates so I can see what is going on and what needs to done when. I’ve concluded after doing this that the rest of the semester is pretty much going to suck. I’m not going to talk about it. I’m not going to complain about it. I’m basically just going to try and do something each day to contribute toward getting everything done.

There’s this woman whose blog I used to follow who writes on Substack now. At first it seemed like kind of a new and rarer thing but now I can’t even tell you how many people’s Substack letters I’ve subscribed to and it really isn’t all that many. The only ones I regularly read are moms from Instagram or moms from blogs.

I don’t like writing blogs when all of my kids are not at home. My daughter was out tonight for a youth group meeting with Miles. They don’t understand the whole mom/parent thing where you can’t really relax and be at peace for the night until all of your kids are home from wherever.

The kids said they had a good Halloween. Josh is typically the Halloween person who gets the kids excited and works on finding costumes. He hadn’t really had much time or energy to do that this time, so he bought a bag of candy and last night took it out into the athletic field and was tossing it up into the air for the kids to catch.