Brown Friday

We were planning on implicitly observing National Buy Nothing Day, not having anything we wanted to buy and not wanting to embroil ourselves in traffic and crowds. However, last night, one of the two bottles of propane on the trailer ran out, and while we have several spare bottles in reserve, our normal doctrine at Fernley House is to try and keep all bottles topped off since you never know how long you might have to live off of stored reserves. Therefore, we will roll the empty bottle down to the propane service a few blocks from here, and that will probably be our sole contribution to the consumer economy today.