Finally Friday

I'm exhausted.  The nights have been cool and the days have been quite tolerable - temps in the upper 70's and lower 80's (that's F for all of you C people).  That's really nice for summer temps.  The leaves are starting to turn, and the acorns are starting to fall on people's heads.  Autumn is one of my favorite times of the year and the Minnesota State Fair always is the last burst of summer before the arrival of autumn.  But even though I have great sleeping weather, I still can't seem to get enough sleep.  I really will have to re-evaluate my schedule one of these days.  I can't squeeze in the exercise that I need and I still don't get everything that I need finished in the mornings, even though I work on my laptop when I get to the shop.  I'm just a bit frustrated. 

This is one of my two books - Enamels of the
World from 1700-2000.  Yummy!

I broke down and ordered two different enamel books yesterday.  One was an instructional by the teacher of an on-line friend whose work I admire a great deal.  The other was an exhibition catalog/book covering more than 300 years of exceptional enamels that came highly recommended.  As much as I dislike Amazon, I did end up ordering one of them on Amazon because it wasn't available on Barnes & Noble.  The other one I was able to order at B&N.  I should have looked for my HOME Vol 12 at the same time but forgot.  I'll have to see if I can locate a copy and get that one going also.  It'l like my last bang - the last bits of my money before I enter into a wasteland of pinching pennies until they cry.  It's the end of summer....