Testing, testing!

I am in the process of preparing for the Big Night-- getting supplies together, finding the can opener, that sort of thing. But, while the computer is charging I thought I'd best check and see if Blogger is working-- it didn't seem to be earlier.

I have fresh batteries for the camera (although it won't be long before it's too dark for my camera to do any good), paper towels, tuna, can-opener, newspaper, traps (the Volunteer brought them to me this morning. Hurrah!), caffeine, chocolate (the latter two for *me* not the cats), my phone and lots of hope. ...Here goes!