Our house is on a corner, and the neighbors whose property is behind ours, on the other side of an alley, have two dogs and a cat. I stopped by their house yesterday with a bouquet of flowers I’d purchased at one of the grocery stores here in town, because, while A. and I were away, these neighbors collected our mail for us, so that our mailbox would not have overflown, or become overstuffed. While I was in there I sat with them a few minutes in their parlor, and caught up with them about various things, mainly about what A.’s and my plans are, with regard to coming out here to Cheyenne on a more permanent basis. Though I had to admit to them that we still do not know to what extent we will be out here, rather than back in New York, as we have not yet been able to make that determination.