As Mondays go I'm glad that one is in the books!

Busy, Busy! What can I say. The hot, bright, gorgeous weather is increasing business. Of course we knew it would.

I am still thrashing, trying to get everything done that needs to be done prior to Wednesday's procedure. I can't imagine what other things may surface, prior to.

Yesterday was spurty (if that is a word). We would be run over with customers, then it would clear out until the next rush. I personally like it to be steady. I don't like it when we have eight customers waiting in line for one of the two computer terminals and sales people to check them out or research their parts needs. Luckily David is back from the FCA all-star game last weekend. That gives us three working the counter.

One of our best customers came in wanting some plumbing supplies that we were out of. No excuses. For some reason our shelf is depleted. Our hardware orders run a week behind, so there will be no relief (meaning inventory) until next week. Being of the old school that service counts, I told the customer I would pick up what he needed from one of the large discount building supplies in Abilene.

I left Roscoe and the parts store an hour early and made the necessary stop. While I was there I picked up some random items (amounting to just a few dollars) not necessary for inventory numbers but for a reality check regarding price. I was somewhat shocked when I retrieved the items I had really stopped for. If you haven't purchased anything copper lately, you had better protect your wallet! Out the roof! I had figured ten or twelve dollars for my shopping stop. $61+, I was out the door! Wow!

My day today begins with a stop by another vendor to pickup for the General Contractor of the wind farms. I love it when my time starts on this end instead of after my hour commute! Heh!

While I was in the large discount building chain I purchased some granular insecticide for our yard at home. (I had it rung up separate). Use to we could treat the yard with Dursban once or twice a year and we would pretty much be insect free above and below ground! I actually think it helped with flies and mosquitos. After the government decided to protect us from ourselves and banned Dursban, we have had to try to find an alternate product. So far, nothing works like what we are accustomed too. I changed brands yesterday for this next application (which will be our second of the year and this is only June).

Buy the time I got home, picked up a couple of items and ran two errands, it was not far from eight 0'clock! Needless to say, I didn't get the insecticide applied.

So guess what my thrash project is for today after work. Here is a hint. It involves a cyclone spreader! Gotta get it spread and watered in before tomorrow morning!

I am finding myself having horrible trouble falling asleep. My brain is too busy. Every night for about the last week I get back up and lay on the couch and watch television until I drift off. If I go to bed and Phooey and Maple Syrple are fighting for turf I don't last long at all! Most times I will find some sort of mindless old western that I don't want to watch, I just want my brain to cling to something long enough for my eyes to flutter shut! Last night, when I moved to the couch and began channel surfing I ran across the movie Sleepless in Seattle. I love that movie. I guess I can relate to the single Father with his son and finding a relationship. Of course it doesn't hurt that I am a huge Meg Ryan fan. My biggest disappointment last night is I fell asleep before the movie was over! My, but it was a good sleep! (However brief).

Krl and I got a good piece of news yesterday. Our year long negotiations with a governmental agency (who shall remain nameless) have come to an agreeable end. I am thrilled. Prior to the negotiations this had been a five year project of on going meetings and letter exchange. What it means is that for the first time in six years, I can have a checking account! Whatever I do can be for us, not for someone else. I feel like for the first time in a long, long, time I am a private citizen again. All that is left is a signature on paperwork and its exchange, finalizing the agreement.

Yes! I feel like the poster child for the family. It has been a long road, but there is hope for resolution following the demise of the family business.

Well, gotta get! Today is my last scheduled work day of this week! (I am the only one who thinks I am a fast enough healer to be back at work before weeks end!).

Have a day!

FATHER, thank YOU for all YOU do. Please continue to lead me.