I have a penchant for quoting LOTR each day, and on one particularly rough kiddie day, I told Nikirj "Osgiliath is overrun."
It is an appropriate metaphor for our life here!
As might be expected, the subsistence issues dominate my thinking. We have plenty to update on homeschool terms, on gardening terms, but everything feels so up in the air. Well, everything IS up in the air, and it's a pretty harsh damper on my writing efforts.
Still here. P-daddy has a couple of offers but they involve changing our lives pretty drastically. We're still figuring it out.