This past American holiday (including today):

Shopped at Home Depot twice.  Bought 300 pounds of mulch and 150 bricks.

Painted a porch twice.  Sand-gritted the high traffic walk area.

Painted an outside aluminum screen door flat black.

Wall-papered a bathroom.

Reworked the mounting of a stained-glass window.

Broomed sand in between the vacant spacing of bricks on a newly laid brick patio.  

Stretched and ran 17.5 miles.

Watched and listened to some fireworks from my backyard.  For me, hearing them was/(is)  more the thrill.

Drank more than my share of beer. (If you didn’t have your share, it’s probably because I drank it.)

Sunblogged (blogged wireless while laying out in the sun—what I’m doing now while watching the sun descend upon Lake Erie).

Wished constantly that wanting and needing were holding and having.