June 11

Today was a pretty exhausting day, though only because at the end of it, when I came home, I offered to set up a small fence in the backyard for my mother. It’s an improvised affair, with some wire mesh stretched between two large poles between the house and the fence, there just to keep the dog from helping himself to vine-ripened tomatoes (a delicacy he discovered a taste for last summer), but it took over an hour of pounding and digging to get the thing set up. My right arm still feels like it’s hammering.

Other than that, however, my day was actually very boring, with nothing much to report. I am glad tomorrow’s Saturday, I’ll say that much.