Changing tides

The weather has cooled off, family is gone, and it feels like the tide is changing. I know we will have more hot days, but with clouds and rain, it just feels cooler. My ICO white paper is finished. One brochure is finished, another one coming to a close. I have just a little job... and then? With most of the projects out if the way, it seemed like a pretty relaxing week.

I do have a client who is supposed to be sending me a check for a big project. Then I will have about 2 months of work to do. It will be a sales funnel. I haven't really done one of these, so it will be a little demanding and stressful, although I've done portions of most of it.

But for this week, we weeded the garden and picked pounds and pounds of green beans and tomatoes. We've given some away at church and some to the food bank. We've asked neighbors if they want some. The green beans are nicer than they've been all season. The tomatoes, I think may be on their last leg. We've had wilt creeping up the leaves and now most of the leaves are brown and drooping.

With fall ahead, it's time to think about going to visit Miranda when her baby is due. A week from tomorrow I travel and baby comes on the 29th. I also need to look ahead to our Auxiliary training for Relief Society in September and our Woman's Nauvoo trip in October.

In the meantime, all the names that Aaron has collected have been weighing on us. So on Thursday Tom and I drove to the temple. We worked Thursday and Friday and got more than 30 ordinances done. It was lovely to be in the temple. Friday was our ward temple day, and we got to participate with several ward members for some of the sessions. We stopped at Panara Bread on the way home and Tom got a pecan roll for his birthday treat. On the way up and back we listened to part of the "Gregor the Overlander" series. It made the time pass quickly.

Tom was wondering what he would do with himself after he finished working on Deborah's house and kitchen.

 He got that done Wednesday and the new tenant moved in on Thursday. However on Friday we learned that the tenant had moved from the duplex and it needed nail holes in the walls patched and a new coat of paint throughout the house and garage. It also has a tenant scheduled to move in at the end of this next week. So Tom has much to do.

Tom decided to get the truck detailed. I admit I didn't expect to see much improvement. Wrong. It really came out looking great. Waxed to a shine, seats clean and floor mats sparkling. They painted the wheel wells (Or at least cleaned them so they looked freshly painted) they cleaned up the engine compartment so it sparkled as well. I was impressed and Tom was happy.

Today I drove to Mountain View, MO for branch conference. My friend Jennifer was called to be in the Stake Primary Presidency, so she needed to travel there as well. We carpooled and had a lovely time chatting all the way up and back. This is a small branch that struggles to attract and keep members. But there is a lot of strength there. I gave the RS lesson on the Power of the Book of Mormon. It was the source of my testimony and I have seen the blessings that come from reading it and living its principles. I also had a new counselor sustained and set apart today. It's nice to have two counselors again.

And our little chick is now old enough to roost... but still under mama.