It's Friday once again, time to share the blessings of the week with Susanne and friends at Living to Tell the Story.
1. A clear week. Our church has a school which is out this week for spring break. So our usual Wednesday night activities were canceled this week, too--I guess because so many people travel this week. Plus our writing critique group meets every other week, and this was an off week. I enjoy all of those activities, but it's also nice to have some extra time. And, for the first time in weeks, I haven't had some type of appointment to get to. Lovely!
2. Free books. Our church's school library was thinning out some books and left them on a table in the church lobby for browsers to pick up. I got three classics.
3. Pi Day. We had a pie potluck for Pi Day (3.14). I made hamburger pie and Mittu made a Chicago-style pizza for dinner. I made Chocolate Pretzel Pie and Mittu made banana cream pie for dessert. We had talked about going to Blaze Pizza that day, as they have their pizzas on sale for $3.14 then. But we figured they'd be swamped.
4. A clever and hard-working husband. I mentioned being the recipients of my youngest son's fairly new washer and dryer last week when he bought a house with a stackable set. His dryer is electric, and our current one is gas. We talked about whether to sell his electric one and buy a gas one. I proposed the idea that it might help resale value to have an electric line for a dryer as well as a gas hook-up, so the laundry room could accommodate either one. I didn't realize how involved that process would be. Jim had to run wire from the laundry room up to the attic and across to the breaker box, set aside a breaker especially for the dryer, install the outlet especially for the dryer, and change the plug on it to a four-pronged rather than a three-pronged one so it would be up to the current code standards. In one significant blessing, when Jim was at Home Depot, the worker there who asked if he needed help finding anything knew just what he needed, where it was, what the current code standards were, etc.
5. Getting rid of the old washer and dryer. I knew Jim wouldn't want to just trash the old washer and dryer, since they still had some life in them. But we didn't think it would be a good idea to donate them to the thrift store since there was no telling how long they'd last. So he listed them on the local sales page on Facebook with an honest description. We had a few offers right away. Someone bought them for $75 and came and picked them up. It was nice to have them taken away so quickly.
And that wraps up another week! It's hard to believe we're halfway through March already!
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