We now have another hired hand working in our house. A seventeen ywar old girl is now coming every morning to sweep/mop and do our dishes. This pretty much takes care of all of our household chores, except laundry and grocery shopping. I want to hire the laundry too, but Dolly is uncomfortable with the idea of outsourcing all our tasks. I think this is probably the one time in my life I will be able to live like this, and there's no reason not to. I think Dolly will come around to my way of thinking soon enough.

We went shopping for more house stuff yesterday, and the most important things we got were coffe mugs and a mixer. I had been drinking tea out of a metal cup with no handle, wrapped in a hankerchief to keep it from burning my hand. I now have an American-sized coffe mug from which to drink tea, which makes my mornings just a little but smoother. The mixer, which is more important than I had realzied for Indian cooking, doesn't work. We are going to take it back to the shop tonight and are crossing our fingers that it goes well.