I'm wearing purple today also. Voted this morning. We have some local city council positions to fill and I really wanted to get my choices in. After that I took my dad's violin to a local luthier to give me his opinion on condition and value. It is at least 100 years old. I didn't expect it to be valuable because my dad played this in a grade school orchestra and the family had no money so I know it wasn't some rare find. The kind man seemed happy to see a violin that old in such fine condition. He said it would take very little to get in playable condition. I had been thinking of just getting rid of it, but since it's in such good condition and of course because it was my dad's, I am going to keep it for sure. Violin is a difficult instrument to learn so that likely won't happen for me, but I'm glad that I have been a good steward for it and hope to continue in that role.

My elevator ...no wheels involved other than those turning in DH's head as he adapted it from a hydraulic mechanics lift table. This gets me up the 30 inches from the garage floor level to the door into the house level.

Flat-topped mountains. Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Range_Mountains

Kathsgrdn, that is so cool that you caught the big dipper in your picture. Wasn't that whole northern lights so neat to see?