Today is a day of errands - shopping, a trip to the camp to deliver some stuff and pick up some other. The MacGregors are coming down on Wednesday, so we are planning a couple of Welcome Home meals. It will be good to have them here; they're wonderful people.

There's been a lot written and said about Ronald Reagan. I don't have much to add. We voted for him and his libertarian message in 1980. I know someone who met him in his office, said that he was one of the nicest, most easy-going guys on the planet. I don't doubt it. One commentator observed that no one knew the importance of myth and story-telling more than Reagan.

The morning dawns with low clouds and drizzle. It's cool enough that I needed to start a fire in the stove.