Just a Busy Week

No pics, just a general journal entry. Life is looking good today. Not much dictation yesterday and that frees up some time to run errands. Am going to hit the garden stores and pick up some items for the garden. Haven't planted a thing this season, so it's definitely time to at least get a tomato or two growing. Am hoping IFA still has some seed potatoes. Need to make a run to the DI. The weather is absolutely gorgeous, so let's get outside and soak in some vitamin D!!

This last Tuesday I had a record number of minutes of dictation, 3 hours and 37 minutes, and that had to be turned w/i 24 hours of dictation, which meant way too much time working. Our ward has had a bit of a drought on babies lately, but that is about to change. We had two sisters have babies w/i 24 hours of each other at the same hospital even. That's a fun part of being involved w/RS. I've also had visits, meetings, a food order....in other words, I'm so ready to get away from the phone and run some errands. I think that's one reason why I so enjoyed my girls' weekend a few weeks back. I got away from the phone, got everything arranged before I left (we had a funeral the weekend I was gone, and this is the first funeral in our ward in like almost 10 years), but when I got home there were a few messages. I ignored the return calls for a day . Amazing what gets resolved if you don't rush in to "solve" the problem. I have an excellent presidency and compassionate service leader.

My building person is on vacation this week, so not really anything new to report on the basement progress. We did get the plumbing in the downstairs bathroom moved and the hole in the floor re-cemented, plus Blair came in last Saturday and moved the hot water heater. We're going to install a new furnace just for the basement. The heating guy was supposed to come yesterday, hence why the water heater was moved, but there was some miscommunication, so he'll be here on Monday. Unfortunately we have to run more ducts which cuts into the ceiling, at least the family room. Oh well, I'd rather lose a little ceiling/aesthetics for the sake of comfort. The existing furnace is sized only for the upstairs. We could switch it out with a newer, BIGGER furnace and use the existing ducts, but that would be more expensive than just putting in a second furnace specifically for the basement and keep the existing for the upstairs, since it still has approximately another 15 years of life.