I have a new lapboard and I could not wait to try it out
(how quiet a life I lead!).  My lapboard
is my desk when I am stationed in my leather chair – and is especially useful
for holding My Pet (my mini-notebook computer – not a parakeet or gerbil).  My old one suffered some, er, unpleasantness
from one of the cats and had to be discarded (immediately).  So, for a few days I have been improvising
with a cushion and a clipboard.  And I
kept saying, gee, I should go out and get a new lapboard. 

But I didn’t.  The
weather here has been crazy – when we woke yesterday it was dumping snow and
there was already an inch or so on the ground. 
The rest of the day: sleet, rain, wind, rain from several directions at
once, hail, about 10 minutes of a completely blue sky, then the rain came back –
and the wind.  There was sleet
again.  And when we went to bed snow was
powdering the back deck.  Today, we are
back to the plain drenching rain that chills your marrow.  So, I have been lurking inside as much as
possible.

Fortunately, we needed groceries.  And George, being kind of a hero, not only
went to the grocery store, but stopped at Bed, Bath and Beyond to get me a new
lapboard.  And it is a pretty spiffy
one.   It has a built-in cup holder and a pop-up LED
light on a flexible goose-neck (and it looks like some kind of space-age alien
thing – pretty cool).  It has a pencil
trough, too.