The heat brought the day’s one real trouble: the air conditioning failed, and the crew who came to mend it left it running only long enough to fail again. I walked the dogs a while longer than usual, glad of the excuse to be out of the house and moving. Later I saw to the grocery shopping for Summer and Ryan. Small provisioning for other people is its own quiet satisfaction, and on a day otherwise spent waiting on a repair that would not hold, it was the part I was glad to have done.