Not dead, & girl scout cookie orders

So far school is going ok; the Megatherium is (theoretically?) learning to play the violin, or at least I am carting the instrument back & forth for her twice a week, tho as yet there doesn't appear to be a home practice schedule. She has brought home a head cold (as always) but no Covid, & has yet to be identified as a "close contact" & required to isolate. Current vaccine prognosis is early December, so not early enough that she'll be allowed to go to worldcon, but almost in sight.

I am back to clay classes, and grauwulf is off & on working from home (more so this month after he managed to crack his head open a few weeks ago, complete with stitches, two rounds of urgent care, and fun with concussion, but he seems to getting back up to speed.) Small household projects are actually getting done-- we have blinds on the porch so as not to *cough* blind ourselves in the afternoon sun, half a new actually non-hideous front fence installed, a rug that's periodically clear enough to vacuum... Oh, and if anyone stateside wants mixed daffodil bulbs, I'm happy to send you a box because every time I weed or attempt to set a fence post along the front sidewalk a dozen more bulbs pop out at me.

We also find that the rumors were false, and we still get our fall girl scout cookie season, so if anyone (I think US only?) would like to order cookies now, you can clicky the link here! Good lemonades, weird name for samoas, & this year's new cookie is a salted caramel center with a thin & crunchy chocolate cookie layer behind it.