64º and mostly sunny on Friday; next door’s certainly going to annoy me then. Sure do get a lot more rain here than in Arizona, but any place gets more rain than Arizona! I doubt I’d ever get sick of rain like I do with the cold and the snow. The weather’s erratic here like back east. You can have snow one day, sunshine the next, and rain the next. Fortunately, most of the snowfall doesn’t stick, or it at least melts off in a few hours.

Haven’t seen Bev today, but she was here for many hours yesterday. So was a couple (with the big black lab) in a dark pickup that hauled the washer and dryer away that she said belonged to her daughter.

I have an offer for Mary. One that’ll help us both out. If she can agree to keep it to just one or two letters a week that aren’t novels, I’ll type them up and send them to her aunt to send to José. And if she’ll agree to send a book of stamps each month, I’ll use my own envelopes, paper and ink. This will pay me for the postage as well as for doing the work and for the usage of my own supplies. She’ll just have to tell her aunt that if there’s ever a lag in the letters, it’s because the printer went on the fritz, but I’ll keep typing them up till it’s fixed and send whatever got delayed.