This has been another quiet stay-at-home day. We got a bit of rain today but not much. It has been cloudy all day though.
The gas company came this morning and worked all morning to move the gas meter from the ally to up near the house. They laid a new permanent line down as well. There were four guys here and they seemed to work well together. One of them came in and lit the oven and furnace.
Phil came over and worked on moving the dryer vent line. He didn’t get it finished but said he would be back tomorrow to finish up.
He came over and we went over drawings of the new bathroom and back room. We decided on window placement, door placement and shower configuration. Most of the things can be changed if needed. I’m rather flexible about those type of things and trust that Phil knows better than I where to put things.
The guy was to have come tomorrow to start digging for the foundation but with the rain we got today and more in the forecast he put it off until next week.
I got the update for the Detention Center Love in Action project written. I have already gotten six more things purchased off the Amazon gift registry. People are very generous in their support of this project.
Got a phone call from a lady that used to live in Newton and used to work with the Detention Center doing a ministry project of some sort. She had met someone that she wants me to meet and we exchanged contact information.
The appreciation gifts I ordered for the staff of the detention center came in today. It will take a bit of assembly to get them ready. I will post a note and ask for some volunteers to come help me when it is time to do that. I think I will take them up sometime in October. Just a little token of appreciation for all the staff does to make this project happen. It has impacted most of the staff in some way or other and I want to thank them and let them know I see them and appreciate their help making this project happen inside the walls of the detention center.
Tomorrow Kathy and I have a zoom call with a social worker from the KU Memory Unit at 3:30. I need to call in the morning as I never received the zoom link. Maybe she won’t send it until then.
No plans for the weekend. I didn’t make it to town today so will probably go Friday to get some groceries. I have a CD that is renewing Saturday and I need to give the bank instructions on it.
Still no results from the echocardiogram that I had done Monday morning. Maybe no news is good news. Sure seems to take them a bit to get around to sending out results. Wonder if that is normal in other hospitals as well. The state of modern medicine is not good these days.
It is nice to be back above neutral again. It sure helps to tune out the news. I give myself a few minutes every morning and evening to read some of the news but more than that I can’t handle. I do better focusing on the things I can do something about rather than stewing over the things I can’t.
Grateful for progress on the remodel, grateful for the support of the Love in Action project, and grateful for all the love being given and shared in my community.