Very beautiful weather here today. I spent a happy hour or so sitting in the sunshine staring in an unfocused sort of way across the bay into the dunes, where the laird is presumably still crouched over a table in his sand-trapped house playing cards with the devil. I counted five swans (quite a record) and watched the boats lazily shifting on their moorings as the tide went into dead water then turned. I'm so happy my customers don't need anything from me beyond wrapping their books safely and getting them mailed.