Monday morning (12/14) I made pancakes for breakfast and they were awesome!  Nice and thick and light, just the way I like them.  Michael cleaned up the kitchen after breakfast and I headed down to the studio to work on the rope tote.  I was down there all day (except for making up roll dough in the afternoon) and the tote was 1/2 way done by dinner.  We had soup and new rolls (they were supposed to be like that brown bread loaves they serve at Outback) and Michael said they were excellent!  He left shortly afterwards to go to a meeting at a community theatre, and I continued to work on the tote.  By bedtime it was almost done.