Got a couple of letters from Mary. Again neither of them mentioned her poems and affirmations, but she did tell me to send book parts she’s missing. Something like 15 pages. She said there’s more missing, too. Yeah, I noticed that in Phoenix there were a few gaps here and there.

Tom got a box of 1,500 sheets of white paper so I could continue printing copies of Jose’s letter, so if all goes well she’ll get those real soon. She gave a little more info on him like the county he was sentenced in, saying he’s innocent and was tricked into pleading guilty, but she still hasn’t told me what he was convicted of.

It also sounds like she went and mailed the 8 books of stamps before I could get a reply back to her and this worries me too, cuz she said she was going to mail them when she got her commissary which was a week ago. It shouldn’t take more than 4 days for our mail to get to each other without it being Christmas or something.

It was so mild today that we didn’t need the AC till 4 PM! This is great prairie dog weather, though, they can usually stand the heat pretty well. When I went out to feed them earlier, they came trickling out from everywhere as soon as they heard the door open. There were at least 4 babies and 4 adults. They get pretty close to me, too.

I took a dozen pink roses and tacked them in scattered places along one living room wall and it looks really cool.

Tomorrow’s going to be no fun, but it’ll be worth it. We’re bombing both because we saw one of those big spiders in the utility area, though it was either dead or dying and because it’s a good time of year to do so. While we’re out we’re going to do the grocery shopping which will be a miserably hectic experience cuz it’s going to be mobbed with it being Saturday. There are just too many damn people in this state! Actually, there are not as many as one would think. There’s more in Massachusetts than there is here because there’s so much empty government land and Indian reservations here. It also seems more crowded because people live in a more even scattering back east and here they live in clumps. Here you either have neighbors just a few feet away or you get multi-acreage lots as we’ve got.