Ups and Down, Downs, Downs

The land lines are out and Frontier won't be able to fix them till the 10th. For some reason, her cell phone won't let her call out. Husband's car is still down and won't be repaired until Son arrives on the fifteenth. Fio is beginning to feel cornered again.
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The second that  the land line is repaired, Fiorella will send off her Letter to the Editor to the local newspaper. She's following up her FB series by calling for the immigrant children to be freed. (Must have land line so newspaper can okay Fio's existence.)
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Your artist in residence has almost finished her Halloween decorating, which, of course, no one will see because her house is set so far back in the woods, but she still has to do it. Maybe she'll get a good picture of the Tide containers she made into pumpkins and  the construction-paper bats she has flying across her front windows--if she can figure out how to put them on FB and her blog. Why are electronics so GD complicated?
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On further analysis, the pipe dream of Fio and her FF working together on a novel, much less the five-book series Fiorella conjectured, was doomed from the start. Fio writes humanity and FF writes IT.
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I may have said this before, but I've had it with vets and police officers being lionized. They're just people, like everyone else, and some of them are good and some of them are bad.