DAVY!!!!!

Things are smoothing out here. Kym's stuff is put away, and school and work have started for her. She's looking for a different job, though, because she'd rather have something not food-related (she went back to a former employer here). We have accomplished internet connection in her room, but are still working on cable TV. I'm looking at a different company for my carpet (we've had another measuring) because I got a sale flyer in the mail the day before I went to order the other carpet. It might be a much better deal, so we'll see. I'll get the estimate Wednesday. Installation is free, though, so how could it be worse than the first estimate? This Friday is an event I've been waiting for for, like, well, lots of years. I'm going with a friend to see DAVY JONES in concert. Yep, the Monkee. MY Monkee. I would have died for this chance all those years ago, and I'm not missing it now. The sad thing is that he's playing at a skeevy little local club where I once took country-western dance lessons back in the Urban Cowboy days. Still, it should be fun. The whole audience will no doubt be women in roughly my age category. I have no idea whether it will be empty or packed -- but it's general admission, so what does that tell you?

Moving On

Well, the carpet has been measured for, I'm back under Skeeter's rule, and the move has been accomplished (though I still have a living room full of Kym's stuff). We (Kym, Chad, and I) had the truck loaded by 10:30 on Saturday and were back in town by 2:00 or so, only to find that the power was out. It had been about 100 degrees in Troy, and we were all exhausted by the time we got back -- and then we had to unload into a hot house. The whole neighborhood's power was out, and it didn't get fixed until 4:15. The UPS on my computer said the power had been lost at 11:46 AM, so it was off about 4.5 hours. Luckily, it cooled quickly after it came back on.

I've settled on a color for the living room -- I think. The estimate for the carpet was higher than I expected, but I can live with it. I want to look it over again, though, before committing to it. Once I have paid for it the carpet will be ordered, then it will be two weeks or so before it's in. Then I have to schedule the installation. So if I get busy, that gives me three weeks or so to get everything else done. Hey! I could have new carpet before I go to Florida!

Everyone but Jenny and I have been in Florida this week, so we have been going out every night to put the chickens to bed. Two of the girls, Blackie and Goldie, fly out of the pen every day, and you have to retrieve them from the pine trees to put them in for the night. Goldie is always on the same branch, which must be reached by a short ladder. Blackie has been switching branches all week, but always chooses one that I can reach from the ground. Sometimes they flap their wings, but otherwise they don't fight you or try to get away once you have caught them. Still....I'm glad my career as a chicken whisperer is over for now.

Now I have to be a ferret wrangler. Kym is going back down to her former town for a couple of nights before her school starts on Thursday, and I will be taking care of my little grandferrets, Freddie and Ashley. I don't have much planned for this week, so maybe I can get some things done to get ready for paint and carpet.