Note on the good thumb the two very nice horizontal lines. That is how thumbs should look.
Not so on the bad thumb. That area that’s pinker — that’s all new skin. That’s how wide the hole in my thumb was. Lovely. I still haven’t tried to bend it all the way, but the doctor thinks that it might not actually do that anyway. I figure I’ll wait until it’s really all the way healed.
In door news (door news??) I got a notice last weekend saying that they were replacing the screens and some of the doors. A few months ago they said they were simply going to remove all the screens, which would be very bad. In my case, the door itself had to be replaced. It was one of those hollow plywood doors that an angry third grader could kick it, so I wasn’t that sad to see it go. However this was going to take at least three hours because they had to replace the frame as well. On a school day. So that meant cats escaping and not getting back in until I got home. They seem to survive that fairly well. I have a chair in the back patio that’s generally Donna’s Chair, and I had a quilt on it. When I got home, Ginny was sitting there facing the door and looking pretty much like a comfy queen. I guess once you survive an airplane trip, everything after that is anticlimactic! So I opened the door, picked her up, and brought her in. Harry appeared looking like nothing had happened at all.
The new screen doesn’t hide you like before (the old one, no one could see it), but it’s a wrought iron security screen. By the way, the white fence that you can barely see in the right of the picture is the pool. 
In school, one of the fourth grade teachers is out for a long time due to surgery. This past week was her second week out. They said she had to have lesson plans done, even though they were hiring a long-term sub and long-term subs are supposed to write plans. She had the first week done, but I told her I’d give her sub my writing plans. Her sub lasted the first week and the first three days of this one and was fired. I don’t know if he did my plans or not, so I told the new sub to find out and then gave him options for Friday — he could do those plans or two other options. The thing is, those were a lot of work. Each was a 2-page lesson plan, plus an overhead for two of them, and handouts for each pair of students, plus another handout for their writing notebooks.
More later … I gotta get stuff done!
