Thanks to house guests on Tuesday/Wednesday (one can't just run off to one's stitching place when there are people to entertain, and since these people were welcome guests, I was even less inclined to desert them) and a funeral on Friday/Saturday (husband's younger - by four years - brother, of complkcations from Stage IV porstate cancer), stitching time was somewhat constrained. Add to that, we got home fro the funeral and on Sunday, I woke up with a raging sore throat, dry cough and fever. It has been showing signs of coming on since Wednesday but I attributed the symptoms to the desire to avoid that funeral and ignored them. So... all that really got done this past week was a couple of days of work on "Midnight Garden":