And day too. Buddy and Pip have been visiting, and will be heading home tomorrow. Rotating through three dogs has kept us rather busy. Pax and Pip need separate times and places because Pip keeps coming at Pax for some roughhousing fun, and Pax can be a bit brusque in telling her to bugger off.

Then, this evening attendance at the League of Women Voters annual awards banquet at which friend and neighborhood association co-conspirator, James, received a democracy award.