And now we're in Amherst !

We have just come to Amherst, MA to pick up Brendon - he was involved in a rehearsal on the Amherst Commons - for a movie he's going to be in. We are "taking care of him" - if that is appropriate to say for a 16-year-old - while Katie and Savanna have gone to Maine so that Savanna can visit an ailing half-brother. We'll be staying at Shutesbury through Saturday evening, when K&S will return. Ellen and Brendon have just gone to Antonio's Pizza for our supper. Ellen brought Mac&Cheese, but we decided that since we are right here, we'll do pizza tonight and eat the Mac&Cheese tomorrow. Before we came down, Ellen delivered a box of cake to the Afghan refugees and also a contribution of baked goods to someone connected to a theater program in Brattleboro who are running a fund-raiser bake-sale at the Vermont Welcome Center on I-91 tomorrow.

Sample pizza slices from Antonio's*************************** Later. We are now at Shutesbury; we've had our pizza, we just watched the PBS Newshour and now Ellen is watching the Olympics. I'm in the living-room where it is a bit warmer, because this is where the wood stove is. Nothing like a wood fire!