And now for the good stuff!!

We are taking the middle child to college tomorrow, wow!  It's about a 2.5 hour drive, so we are leaving about 6am.  Tonight we'll finish packing up the car.  She has about half of her stuff packed because it came from Gr'ma's when she moved out yesterday. But all the things I've been amassing for her (hamper, sheets, towels, cleaning stuff, food, etc.) still needs loaded up. 

It's been a long week.  My friend Angie is on vacation and I'm cleaning the dialysis clinic for her while she's gone.  But that has made each day jam packed and scheduled to the minute.  Last night is a good example - Mom & Jim wanted to take us out to celebrate DD going to college.  So I worked from 8-4, then drove to MIL's and DD loaded all her moving out boxes up and we went home.  She unloaded a couple that are not going to college, and we got back in the car with littlest one and made it to the restaurant right at 5:30pm.  Left there at 7pm to go to mom's and we visited for a half hour, then I took both DD's home and switched out of my work clothes and made it to the clinic by 8:35 - just 5 minutes late to meet Jerrod who is cleaning with me.  Home from that by 10:30 pm.

Now here is where it got interesting.  I hadn't fed or watered the chickens in cages inside the coop for several days - just kept forgetting because I'm so busy.  So I thought I'd better do that before I shut the coop up for the night.  I prepared the bottles for their cages and grabbed a flashlight.  As I got close to the coop and fluffy animal, a cat maybe?  Waddled into the coop -- WAIT, is that a white tail?  OH, and is the kitty mostly black????   UM, YIKES~ that would be what you call a Skunk, not a cat!!  So needless to say, the birdies had to wait until this AM to get water and food, and they slept with the coop door open as well, LOL!  Luckily, the coop doesn't smell like it had a skunk visitor last night, phew!

I have a great quilt on the frame, Dresden plates in 1930's fabrics, it's just so cute!  And I have a great quilting plan too.  So wouldn't you know it, my front handle switch went out, UGH!  DH is going to swap it for the back handle switch (hopefully today) because it has to be soldered, and that is beyond my capabilities.  He's going to drive down to the college tomorrow so I can work on some embroidery for a commissioned baby quilt.  I'd like to get it onto the frame and quilted next weekend after hopefully finishing the Dresden plates this weekend.  Delivering those will give our propane fund a big boost!

Work is mostly the same, although it's worth pointing out that I've been here 10 years on the 18th!  Wow, that went quickly.  I'm glad for all the special people I've met here and I do think that working here played a role in getting DH into a church and all of us to where we are today in our new church.  God had a plan all along, as he always does!