Cybils Eve, my upcoming Julian May pilgrimage with my Mama, and my bathroom door

Tonight is Cybils Eve--tomorrow those of us on the East Coast who are desperate for good excuses to distract ourselves from bathroom door troubles  passionate Cybils fans will be waking up to see what books the late nighters of the Pacific have already nominated, and quickly nominate our own favorite books!  Or possibly we will wait and see what holes need to be filled in at the end (October 15).  Either way, it's lots of fun.

This week is also fun for me, because my mother and I (with boys in tow) are doing something we have wanted to do for years.  We are going to New Hampshire, and we'll go to the top of Mount Washington, and then to Dartmouth.  The two are linked by being key places in The Galactic Milieu series of Julian May, and both of us have read our copies almost to pieces.  And this trip is a lovely prospect, and I would be able to look forward to it with much happiness, if it weren't for the fact that....

The downstairs bathroom door is still not on its hinges.  It has made it inside from the barn, and I hope to get it primed tonight....but that only leaves tomorrow to get it all the way painted and up....and Whah!  It is not the door that was in the doorframe before, because the doorframe was occupied until last year by a built-in towel closet that stuck a foot out into the dinning room, and the door we are putting there is a door of randomness that happened to be in the barn.   So door frame extensions will have to be added (fortunately I have a competent spouse, or at least a confident one, which is half the battle), and it is all very Difficult and I curse the previous owners of the house (three random doors in the barn, and none of them the right one....sigh).

With some visitors, I don't really care that there is no door to the bathroom; there's an upstairs bathroom with a perfectly fine door.  But my mother does not think highly of my housekeeping, and the door would really add to my pathetic efforts to achieve Gracious Living.....

And then when the door is done, I'll weed the gravel driveway.