I was at school and then at a meeting and when I came home, the house was good and cold! 62! It’s been at 64 a few times but this is bliss. I turned the oil heater on and snuggled up under a blanket. No furnace for me….. yet…..
Archives for October 2018
Rain, rain, go away….
How ‘bout you go to Colorado? They could really use you.
How am I going to top buying a tiny car? I got nuthing. Absolutely nuthin’.
Well, this outta be fun.
Lloyd and I went to a surplus auction today. As we walked in, the little vehicle that has been there every single time with a ‘Not for Sale’ sign on it was front and center, waiting for me to buy it.
I left the auction after telling Lloyd my maximum bid, $3,000. It would be $3,000 funny.
I called later to say that no. $2,000 is my real limit. Maybe a thousand. I don’t know. He sighed and said goodbye.
An hour later I got a text that said, “I have good news and bad news….”
He bought it! I have dreamed about a small vehicle that could be used to transport the lunches from St. John school to the CDC. (Remember how I tricked out the van?) I don’t know if this is even going to be possible, but if not, I’ll just play with it for a while then resell it.
We drove back to Seward to get Harold’s truck and trailer. God bless Harold. We drove back to find that the car is 6 inches longer than the trailer. Dang it! Luckily, Joe was there. God bless Joe. He is a fellow auction guy who is also a trucker and knows all about strapping things down. He only used three of our straps and that thing wasn’t going anywhere. (Although, I did watch it in the rear-view mirror as we drove, since that was also vital to our success.)
We brought it home and Tom Sawyered the Pester kids (and Harold) into helping us clean it in exchange for joyous test drives. It is going to be a crazy fun project that I really don’t have time for right now.
Oh, well!
One happy thing
While the other noodle pots boil over, there are the occasional things that I actually want to do. One of them was to get our Book Buddy lending system back in rotation . (I don’t want to actually be in charge of the actual book bags, though. Each bag has a book and a little toy/stuffed animal that goes along with it so children can take it home for story time. Sweet, but a pain to monitor. I am just on hanging hardware duty.)
At the old center we had a towel rack the bags hung on, and at the new place we just had a couple of boxes that they were thrown in. It was not good. This week I ordered a shelf from Amazon that I thought I could modify to serve a couple of purposes.
I put the top shelf higher than it was meant to go (so the bags underneath would have room to hang) and had an old curtain rod that I was going to Lauren below it. That failed spectacularly, so so, with some zip ties and a Plan B and it worked out ok.
The rod turned out to be too thick for the bag hooks, dang it. I thought I would go buy some key rings to thread on the rod, but then I remembered that I had zip ties.
(Don’t worry. I trimmed the ‘tails’.)
When all was said and done, it looked better than it had any right to. It holds the Book Buddies, some Parent Resources that will never get borrowed and also some Prayer Request cards.
It looks just like my vision! (Mostly.)
Wasp story – no photo
For some reason the wasps are out on full force here. On Wednesday I had one crawling on my I.D. Badge and couldn’t shoo it away. The children all screamed while I took my lanyard off (calmly) and hung it on a little tree. In a few moments the wasp flew away.
An hour later I noticed my pointy was swollen. That little bugger stung me – or maybe one of his buddies, I don’t know. It didn’t hurt at the time but today my pinky is quite bruised. Huh.
I took a photo but vanity prevents me from showing the old hands that have appeared at the ends of my arms.
Well, that’s a heck of a thing
Some of this foliage is supposed to be in the ground. Some of it used to be up in the maple tree, specifically a pretty large branch.
It’s a little windy here. It was cold at the start of the week, HOT, windyand muggy today, and in hour this evening we dropped 30 degrees.
Yikes.