Did some cleaning of the print shop side of the garage today, moving a lot of things out that belong somewhere else, throwing stuff out, and rearranging some things. Still needs more work, but at least now there's enough room to do further work. Finished stapling up a piece of insulation I'd started on earlier in the week. Place is looking nice and shiny :)

Roselynde is back home today. She continued eating at the vets this morning, and went on to perform other normal activities, so she was allowed to come home. Fitzw picked her up, as I was at work. And tonight, she not only had a first supper, but she asked for a second supper! Yay!!

Work went pretty well this week, if a bit oddly (another cancellation today, and a walk-in urgent care today). Everybody got taken care of, yay!

Called my mom a second time, as Sunday call was somewhat brief. She was having vertigo problems this past weekend, and they've been continuing into the week. She went to emergency services yesterday (someone at the community was able to take her there, and also called my brother Kent to let him know what was up -- my other brother, Kirk, doesn't have a vehicle). End result of tests was that she had Not had another mini-stroke, but that the vertigo was simply lingering for some reason. They thought she might be a little dehydrated and told her to be mindful of that. Also, since she's been sleeping a lot this week, she may not have been eating enough. Kent drove out from Palo Alto to pick her up and take her home, and make sure she had everything she needed, etc. Plus he's decided that they'll take care of all of the fixings for Thanksgiving this year, turkey and all, so she doesn't have to exert herself. They've all be sharing in making the food before this, but it's really probably best if they do it all, at least this year. She's been trying to get her book finished up and that takes a lot of energy. I was helping her out with a lot of it last year, but it was affecting our relationship in a negative way, so I ended it and have just been one of the encouraging voices. Although I did get her a replacement reader, ellid, who is generally more prompt in returning her work than I was. She sent me part of some of her latest writing though, which I'll take a look at -- just the section on North Adams. Anyway, we chatted about fluid intake levels and the importance of calcium in the diet, etc. and she seemed a bit more alert by the end of the phone call.

All in all, not a bad week.

Confirmed that if there isn't someone scheduled at near enough to start or finish time,of shift, that part of the shift will be nipped off to cut down on office overhead.
( more on working )

Upstairs Porch: Only two bags of winter clothing left to sort for keep/give away/throw away. Vacuumed up the dead bugs, etc. Removed old plastic sheeting, took down the insulation blind fabric (need to line it, put rings on it), stuffed plastic grocery bags into gaps in old window frames, plus a little duct tape. Started putting foil insulation on wall below windows. Put one stack of clothing storage bins in, to start building surface to put plants on. Although I'd prefer to build a surface over them -- depends on what materials I can find to use for that.

Today I have to finish putting the foil insulation up, hopefully the heavy plastic sheeting over the windows, and insulate the extended part of the porch roof. Then the rest of the storage bins can go back in and we can walk around the bedroom again.

To be done in near future: make the insulated shades, get/make black water containers to put along back wall of porch for passive solar heating for the plants. Possibly get a plant light bulb.

Studio: Only one window needs staining, and the threshold plate between the two halves of the garage to be installed and renoferret's done indoors. I have some trim to paint on the windows, but that can wait until next spring if need be. Meantime, we get to clean, move furniture, and move the rest of the weaving/spinning supplies in today.

After that, some more house cleaning, then off to work. prince_hring will be arriving sometime tonight from Canada. He's got a wedding to attend on Saturday, so this gives him some rest time and visiting time. Friday night a bunch of us are going out to dinner at Ruby Tuesday, a former Concentus post-practice hangout -- great food, and the accoustics in the hall outside it are great too.