Keeping my Goals for 2025
Scrapbooking:
*Going to get A page DONE in May??? (well THAT didn’t happen… maybe June?)
Cards:
*mailing birthday and anniversary cards every week
Life in General:
*journal daily
*log my meals
*LazyFit twice a day
May 25 - Pretty good week at school for the most part. Almost retired a year early, after one of the coordinators decided to take her year-end frustrations out on me for asking one of her classroom teachers for information, yet again, that I’d been asking for, for two weeks. There are only three weeks left of school and this stuff needs to get done before we leave. She wanted to try to tell me that kind words and patience would go further, while using all caps, bolding and increasing the font size on the words “we’re very short staffed here”. I told my boss about it and ended the email with, “You remember how I mentioned that I was planning on retiring at the end of next year? Well, I’m thinking about making that the end of this week. Going to go home and chat with Freddy about that tonight.” And I was dead serious. Freddy was 100% for it. Boss met me at the door to my office the next morning to make sure I was staying and to find out what we could do to fix the situation. smh. Haven’t received an apology of any kind, but I have received the information from the teacher.
And you’re just gonna LOVE this! It’s always “something”. Three of our footings “sunk”. Wtheck? Mike, the contractor, said he’d never seen anything like it. Last week we had three days of rain. We got 6 inches in about 36 hours. They really thought they’d have the deck done by this weekend, but no. So, they finally got back here on Wed. Mike goes around back and finds this! When he dug all the “goop” out of where the fill should have been, there was a hole. No idea where it “dropped off” to. Our water table is high here, so maybe they “hit” something, but that doesn’t really explain where all the fill went because they dug down danged near six feet to do the footings and then filled it with class C and dirt and packed it in tight around the mold and then filled the mold with concrete. I watched. I’m fascinated by how they “make stuff”. I even have pictures. Scrapbooking! (if I ever get around to it!) So, where did it all go? Not only that, when he got all the “goop” outta there, he could stick his entire arm underneath the concrete slab that was laid for the patio! Not a good thing. So. They’re going to pump some kind of foam stuff under the slab to stabilize that and it ain’t going nowhere, ever. lol. Good. Then, they’re going to refill around the three footings, relevel the three footings (which actually means making them a teeny bit higher than the slabs for drainage… makes sense) and, sense the “new” concrete footing tops will look slightly different than the original, they’re going to make all the footing tops look the same by just adding a little “sploosh” of concrete over each older one. OMG!
But, Harley is loving that he can go out on “a deck”. Just doesn’t have the run of it yet. hahaha!
(don't ya just love all the mud still left there, yuck! he doesn't seem to mind.)
Hope you’re having a wonderful Memorial Day.
God Bless Brave Warriors who Gave Their Lives so we could be Free!
Love and Blessings!
Carla
Doing pretty ok.
