Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child . . .

But yesterday I woke up feeling like eighty is the new sixty. So I gathered up most of the boxes of stuff left over from the newly-wed dolls' house, and planned Grandma Gray's old house for the empty bookcase. I miss some things that are not there, so I know there's more hidden away somewhere. And all the people who live at Graymont are present and accounted for: Alex, Miranda, Camilla, Peter, Little Joe, Grandma Buff-Orpington, Billy Bones, Cook, Beau, Lucinda, Mrs. Gudenov and her daughter, Tiny, the three sooner hounds, the cow, even a ghost or two.

Actually, Grandma B.-O. doesn't live here; she has an apartment in town, but she spends a lot of time with the family.

Ned, Beauty, Maybelle, Dolly, Spot, the Mama cat and two kittens, and Kitty are at the new house.

Graymont will have six levels:
1. The gardens, service yard and garages
2. The kitchen, butler's pantry, and conservatory
3. The dining room, living room and library
4. Bedroom, bathroom, guest room
5. Day nursery, nurse's room, bathroom
6. Children's rooms and attic

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I didn't go to book club on Thursday, because it was so cold outside it put the fear in me. I've been sick, and I don't want to repeat the process any time soon.