“Here in flesh and blood was a truth which I had long believed in words, but never met before. The creature we call a gentleman lies deep in the hearts of thousands that are born without chance to master the outward graces of the type.”
~Owen Wister, The Virginian~

Despite today being more of a rest day, I still ended up with over 7,000 steps. I’ve watched the averages slowly go up. All I did was walk down and back to the dining hall a couple of times, plus once in the evening just to see what was going on. Elianna and I spent some time in the CGC kitchen. Afterward she went to the hammock and asked if I wanted to join her. We sat squished side by side watching the kids on the athletic field.

I was very tired today and slept. The boys had to mow and help Dad with some things but they also had time to play their games too. I half-way cleaned out the fridge. A load of laundry was started for the oldest one who I will do things like this for as one of the few and quiet ways left that I can show love without argument. The younger boys had piano this morning. We didn’t hit a deer this time on the way into town like we did last week.

Tom had another day inside on the furniture. He’s not bad when he’s in here, he just sleeps in different places. Right now he’s on the smaller sofa. The other day he was downstairs and slept all day on the guest bed. This afternoon he was curled up on my pillow. He opens his eyes half-expecting me to be mad at him because I will ask others to put him back outside. But lately they’ve all been more like inside-outside cats now.