This week....

It's going to be crazy-busy this week (not like it isn't all the time, anyway), so I figured while I had 10 minutes, I'd post.

We have some friends in the ward transitioning between military service and civilian life. He's out of the Air Force the end of June, but he doesn't have a job yet. He's got his masters degree, so it won't be impossible, but as of today they have no idea where they are going. Added to that is the foster baby that they're hoping to adopt and can't take out the state of California without jumping through hoops all over the place. They have to be out of their military housing (which is the only semi-affordable housing in the county) the end of June. But, if they're homeless, they'll lose the baby anyway. SO....we're the backup plan. However, that means the baby's social worker has to inspect my house and make sure that it's safe and that we have enough bedrooms for four adults, four kids and a baby. We do, but only if we do some major rearranging. We also have to be fingerprinted so that they check and make sure we're not felons. We talked about it and decided that we really need to do the rearranging anyway, this just gives us incentive to actually get it done, and more importantly, a deadline. The inspection is next Monday, so we have to have most of it done before we head off to Molly's wedding. So I'll be rearranging cabinets/furniture/etc like mad this week. Hopefully, the paperwork will go through and they'll be able to move to Utah as they planned originally and we'll just get a more organized house out of the ordeal. Not that we wouldn't enjoy them here, Meg loves her kids and they're wonderful people. This is the family that took Meg while we went on the cruise and, amazingly enough, are still our friends. :0)

My garden is going to town, we have more lettuce than we can eat (when we can keep the earwigs out of it), my tomatoes are already big and bushy and have actually set some tomatoes, which is a big deal here. We tried a couple of new techniques this year...if you live in a gopher and fog-infested, cold summer area, ask us about it.

Our swallows have brought about a hundred friends to add condos to the swallow condominium above our big great room windows. Means my deck is now a "poop deck" and the windows look pretty disgusting. I may try and shoot some water at the nests that aren't finished yet, don't wanna knock down baby birds, it might be bad karma. I think the babies that hatch are coming back and while one or two nests was kind of fun, 40 isn't so much. I tried to get Sam to do it last night, but he didn't have the heart. He's such a big softie.

Today was weigh in for the Elsberry biggest loser. We're down from last month, but unless Sue had a bad month, she's probably still ahead of me. Last weigh in is July 2nd, so we have one month left for the big push.

We're excited to see everyone at Molly's wedding....unless something momentous happens, I probably won't post until after that. Hopefully, we'll have a couple of pics to post on Saturday so those of you who couldn't make it can see.