The Holidays Wind Down

OK, the last three weeks have been hectic. Emily & I met my family in Orlando for a week at Disney, which was great. We were back home for about 48 hours, including hosting an open house. Then we were in Tennessee with Emily's family for Christmas. The day we got back, we began the post-Christmas closet cleaning (kind of a tradition for Emily & I). I've got a J-term class in a couple of weeks called "Major Living World Religions." If you don't know how that works, I spend 8-5 each day listening to lectures for five days. After that, I've got about three weeks to finish any assigned papers or work. The bad part is that for a week, everything but class is largely ignored. On the good side, that's one less class I have to take this semester. Right now, I'm trying to finish up the assigned readings so I don't have to push quite so hard during the class.

I'll post a link to a few pictures on the right side of this blog.

What a Morning

This is what I woke up to this morning. If you can't tell, that's a large tree branch that has fallen across the white fence that lines the church property as well as the metal fence that lines my back yard. Its been a while sense I got to spend my first hour of the day standing ankle deep in mud, while I used a sledge hammer to drive a couple of fence posts into the ground. Needless to say, it wasn't the best start of the day.

Enough whining. I got to do some visits to members of the church today, which is always an enjoyable day. I better get back to work. I need to write a few letters before I call it a day.