Big sigh.

A big sigh because it's time to exhale all of the day's efforts:

• in cooking cranberries and tarts and biscuits and scones and sweet potatoes and galettes and green beans, and then eating them all.
• in talking about politics and vaccines and all sorts of things that really don't affect my daily life at all. Excuse me while I go destroy things violently.
• in being patient with people.
• in scratching behind puppies' ears until they're satisfied, which would be... never.

And now that all that has been blown out, I can take a nice deep breath of leftovers and reading and catching up on TV and friends.