Friday was one of those days, the kind where one thing toppled onto another and another.
It started when my daughter called to say she couldn’t come over after all, which was disappointing but also freed me up to go pick up the ruler I needed from a friend. I needed to square up the 96 pieces I had made that were not playing well together.
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