Wow, it's been nearly a month since I posted but there was nothing out of the ordinary happening. Water volleyball, pickleball, platform tennis, golf, rain and lawn mowing, planting and weeding, doctor appointments, shopping, cooking (lots of gooie cookies) and watching 'The Great Courses' continue to fill our days. We did place an order to have 5 1/4 inch crown moulding installed throughout the house plus a large cornice over the living room sliders in November. Since I have to write something, I'll regale you with my soap experiment. Stop here or no complaints about my journalistic choices. I have been bothered by foot and calf cramps at night for a while. Waking me almost nightly and sometimes requiring a walk around the house to work them out. Not a big problem, but a nuisance. I was looking for a solution on the web and soap was mentioned. It said put a bar of soap (no specifics) under your pillow and it will eliminate the cramps. I ignored it for a while but one day as I was unwrapping a new bar of soap and thought, 'What the heck'. I put the bar of soap next to my legs when I went to bed and, to my surprise, I have not had a cramp for at least a month or two. Except on 3 or 4 occasions when, I noticed the next morning that I had managed to knock the soap to the floor. Perfect correlation between cramps and missing soap. I am a 'scientist' and have no explanation but I now sleep with the soap. We'll see what happens when we turn off the AC and I sweat at night. Could get foamy. Don't say I didn't warn you but it is the truth. Physical or mental? On the cramp nights I did not know the soap was missing until the next morning which I believe rules out the placebo effect. The only theory is that soap gives off chemical magnesium.