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Had a nice weekend taking care of odds and ends. First and most importantly, I finished my big DIY project building a plant grow light. Which I will write up in detail, with photos, probably tomorrow.

Also spent much of Saturday driving around running errands. Which sounds kind of sucktastic, but actually it was fun. I've been working so much lately that I haven't had time to take care of those little details. It was great to have a whole afternoon where I didn't have anything to do except tool around town.

One of my errands was replacing Thirteen's bed. She's having problems with incontinence, and we couldn't let her continue sleeping on that bed. I like the beds with really thick orthopedic foam, and the only one they had like that was huge! 3 × 4 feet! Thirteen would be better off with a bed half that size, and I thought about making one. Then I realized that it takes me 2 hours to earn enough money to buy the big bed. It would take much longer than that to make one, plus materials. So I bought the damn bed. Also got a pack of those training pads. Put a pad on top of the bed and pinned a towel over the pad. This way if she has another accident in her sleep, we can throw away the pad and the bed won't be soiled.

I also bought yarn to make a new scarf. I found a page with dozens of patterns (who knew there were so many ways to make a scarf?) and ended up picking the binary scarf from Knitty.com. I know, I should have started weeks ago, & by the time I finish it will probably be too warm to wear it. It's still fun to work on now. I've never worked with two colors before and it's been a challenge.