In the Good Ol' Summertime...

It's June. That means summer, right?

The temperature is nearly 90 (again) and the humidity is high as well. We go for walks every morning when it is cool so that we don't  faint from heat exhaustion, because the humidity rises quickly around here (and all the plants raise their branches and shout Praise the Lord!) and it doesn't pay off in the long run to try to sweat off the heat while standing in a cloud of water droplets.

We continue to complete little tasks here and there around the house while waiting for the world to get back to normal.

The Camry is running again (although there are still a few pieces that need to be put back on), so Deb and Mason have a space in the garage to park at least one of their cars (and they can determine amongst themselves whose car gets to stay out of the weather); the front yard has been weeded (although we're allowing quite a few plants to grow that others might consider weeds); the deck has a kind of cover over it so that we can eat dinner out there (although it's a hack job that I threw together with a few ancient 2x4s and a dropcloth we'd used for painting the basement); we've purchased a new propane grill (even though the old charcoal-based camping grill was working just fine, it just takes too long to get started); the basement is looking very nice now that Deb has decorated it the way she wants (although there are still a few missing ceiling tiles and little things we have to keep our eyes on, like the water drains and hookups in the kitchenette and the sump drain, as well as the bathroom flooring which still needs to be fixed); the garage is a bit more organized and there is actually room to work on things with the big power tools (although I have to keep moving things around to make room because there are still too many things that need to be donated to Habitat for Humanity -- once they finally open up); the router was finally moved to the front hall closet and I finally got the outlet wired up in there so we didn't have to run an extension cord around from the dining room.

And I finally got a job.

It is only a short contract for six months, but it's one that I can work (mostly) remote, which means I can still work on house projects during the summer while getting paid for the work I do. And my contracting agency thinks they'll be able to shift me into a long-term job afterward, although the details of that job aren't solidified yet.

I'm very lucky and blessed to have a job. So many people do not.

I just hope the world doesn't fall apart any time soon, at least any more than it is.

It feels like we've (the citizens of the world) have already had a one-two punch and we're just waiting for the third for the knockout.

We hope and pray and love and care and try to stay positive, relying on our friends and family to keep us from going crazy. We have the best of both.

God bless you all!