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It wasn't until last night that I realized that I hadn't posted here in three weeks or so.
Anyhow, things have been hopping, mostly with my church. We five trustees -- and we *are* down to five warm bodies, out of nine possible slots -- have to make a lot of mighty big decisions: whether to take out a mortgage to fund most (but not all) of the complete deck replacement, whether to bother replacing the deck in the first place, what to do about all the other things that need replacing (HVAC, roofs on both buildings), whether or not to sell the whole darn property because we are a small, aging congregation now.
Oof. Yeah.
When I say "the deck," I don't mean something extraneous. The only way to get in and out of the main floors of both the Meeting House and the RE Building on our uneven property is to have a deck connecting the two buildings with the parking lot. Can't have stairs, a winding path, ladders, or whatnot. Our current wooden deck dates back 31 years and is no longer safe for groups of people.
We've got to explain all this to the congregation, and it will be ... intense.
Plus I went through all the shenanigans of moving furniture around to accommodate a portable A/C unit for my living room, I just finished a five-day stint of dog-sitting (and doing a bunch of free laundry because my condo building has coin-op machines), and I have a new science-writing client with a short deadline. Oh, and I am getting together online with high school classmates to try to organize a 45th reunion. (How can we all be so OLD???)
I'm so tired, I'm sure I'm forgetting something....
Anyhow, things have been hopping, mostly with my church. We five trustees -- and we *are* down to five warm bodies, out of nine possible slots -- have to make a lot of mighty big decisions: whether to take out a mortgage to fund most (but not all) of the complete deck replacement, whether to bother replacing the deck in the first place, what to do about all the other things that need replacing (HVAC, roofs on both buildings), whether or not to sell the whole darn property because we are a small, aging congregation now.
Oof. Yeah.
When I say "the deck," I don't mean something extraneous. The only way to get in and out of the main floors of both the Meeting House and the RE Building on our uneven property is to have a deck connecting the two buildings with the parking lot. Can't have stairs, a winding path, ladders, or whatnot. Our current wooden deck dates back 31 years and is no longer safe for groups of people.
We've got to explain all this to the congregation, and it will be ... intense.
Plus I went through all the shenanigans of moving furniture around to accommodate a portable A/C unit for my living room, I just finished a five-day stint of dog-sitting (and doing a bunch of free laundry because my condo building has coin-op machines), and I have a new science-writing client with a short deadline. Oh, and I am getting together online with high school classmates to try to organize a 45th reunion. (How can we all be so OLD???)
I'm so tired, I'm sure I'm forgetting something....
