Maybe it's time to be brave and resume this daily record. I stopped months ago because 1) I was busy 2) it seemed too mundane and I had nothing much to say.

But reading the entries about Kapalai brought that happy time back there again. Maybe the children will enjoy reading about our life together some day.

Today in Chapel Hill, it's grey and rainy. J has gone over to Bridle Run to contract a security company for our house. Work is proceeding at snail's pace since we closed on it on Aug 28. In fact, it's not begun, though the shingles for the new roof are sitting in their package, studded with raindrops, on our driveway. We are going to have weathered wood for our roof.

The yard has a distinctly overgrown and neglected look about it now. Here is the view from our living room. I wander about and wonder how I am going to keep the garden tidy when I have so little affinity for growing anything. Remember how I tried to kill the Japanese bamboo in our home at Sunset Way? Poni had to rescue it. Maybe I will send out a call for help to our friends, Irene and Ronnie. Could we replicate a Balinese wonderland by our North Carolinean pool?

Hopefully, one of the kids will grow a green thumb. Or maybe I will, in my stubborn middle age.

Not today, however. The afternoon is full -- Li Lao Shi at 3, Rainbow Soccer at 4.15, then South Point for presents.