"It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up." - W. Somerset Maugham

This is going to be a short post. I shouldn't even be taking this much time, there's so much to do. Pam gets home Tuesday morning and I'm nowhere close to ready. The primary project while she's gone has been a complete remodel of the master bedroom. The ceiling is DONE (popcorn off, old vent hole patched, primed and painted, 2 coats), and the walls are DONE (painted, 2 coats), the floor is DONE (carpet and pad up and laminate flooring down). All that remains is the new trim. I got it at Home Depot this afternoon and got the three doors trimmed out. Tomorrow morning I'll install the baseboard and shoe molding, then caulk and paint, 2 coats. Oh, and I want to get all the old beige outlets replaced with white receptacles.

This project has made a big mess. Engineered wood products make a lot more sawdust than real wood. I have no idea how that very fine dust made it from the back of the house out onto the kitchen counters but it's there and I have to clean it up. I got all the floors except the living room vacuumed and mopped but that room will take some time because all the furniture needs to be vacuumed, too.

While I was at Home Depot I got a filter for the lily pond. It's so cloudy I can't see the pots that I put down there, and it's only 32" deep. The green tinge has me thinking it's algae, but the filter is supposed to take care of that, too.

With a day and a half left in Gerta's eBay auction things are heating up. The bidding has only gone up $50 since yesterday but the number of people tracking the auction continues to rise. In my mind that means people are waiting until the last few hours to see where things stand and if they want to enter a bid. We'll see if I'm interpreting things correctly. Either way, my reserve has been exceeded so she's sold.

Tonight's task (it's too dark to work in the bedroom because I don't have a ceiling fan/light up yet) is to edit and post the sound files from this morning, both the sermon and Foundations lesson. In the former we talked about the wisdom we can learn from Joseph's famine plan and in the second hour we talked about what I believe is the single most important thing parents need to teach their children - after salvation, of course.

Easter's coming!!

We may be seeing the new generation of golfers bursting on the PGA scene. Unless you follow the game fairly closely you probably haven't heard of the guys who finished in the top four at the just-completed Master's Tournament. Guys in their 20's.

OK, I gotta get to work on those sound files. And there's still half a pan of brownies out there in the kitchen, fork still laying in the bottom of the pan.

Yeah, I've got work to do.