A long day away

Spent the day shoveling crap (cow crap, to be exact) into the rice field. The group of young people who said they would help backed out. (can't trust young folk) so I ended up doing it all alone.

Somehow it made coming home to meet Mona all that much better. I feel so lucky that I consider a rare day of four hours in the morning and five hours in the afternoon "long time to be away" from my daughter. Especially since I had the opportunity to spend a long lunch with her at home.