Last Week
The past week I have spent in Brownwood with my grandparents at their ranch. I fixed some fence and took out some old fence. The fence I fixed was because of fallen trees or where animals such as wild pigs have run through the fence, and the wires are tangled or cut. Periodically we have to drive the perimeter of the fence to make sure there are not any major issues and fix the small ones. We also have to remove old fences at times to keep the cows from getting tangled or cut by the old fences and causing more problems.
Also, yesterday I had a great birthday! Thank you for all the Facebook messages, emails, and texts wishing me a happy birthday! It was great hearing from a lot of people from work and friends throughout yesterday.
This weekend
It is around lunchtime Friday and we are about to head to Dallas. Erika has some Speech Therapy training that is supposed to take 3 hours this afternoon; then we are going to go to dinner. Then tomorrow is Ben’s wedding! Other than that we plan on doing some shopping and something fun such as TopGolf or some other fun evening activity tonight or tomorrow night.
Last Few Days of Sabbatical (Monday and Tuesday)
My sabbatical ends Tuesday evening, and I will return to work Wednesday. Surprisingly I look forward to a lot of the projects I left off and the people I work with. I feel blessed to work at a company where I miss the people and type of work we are doing when I am away.
On Monday, I plan to help Emily Beeksma move into her new house! It was good timing that she closes on her house today (Friday) and needed help Monday moving in while I was on sabbatical.
My service project is coming along slowly. I continue to help Children’s Grief Connection with their website, but their hosting/provider, Neon, is moving slow. They designed the homepage, and we provided our feedback. Once they get it set up where I can help build out the rest of the pages and make tweaks to the site, I will hope in there and help them finish the rest of the pages and some other ideas they have. I hope they finish soon so I can hop in and make a bigger impact on my sabbatical, but told CGC that I would help after my sabbatical was over as well.