Tropical Storm Chantal which had threatened to ruin our weekend and possibly our homes did neither here in North FL. At least not directly. The storm itself lost strength and became what is called a tropical wave (?) after crossing Hispaniola. The rain we did have might have come anyway and I dislike that rain did dampen some weekend events for folks.
Saturday, as Justin was unpacking some of his bins and moving the furniture around from room to room, I was busy cleaning the three bathrooms after my guests. The house smelled of cleaning chemicals the rest of the day. All the towels and sheets were done, folded and put away. I am more accustomed to dragging this out but not this time---swept through and got it done! Speaking of sweeping, I did lots of that as well, plus using the wet Swiffer on the bathroom floors.
After moving my furniture pieces from the room, Justin set up his bed, using a twin-sized mattress from the day bed on top of his full-sized box spring, as his mattress is yet in storage down the street. He made it work. He has to arrange with Jesse to get the mattress moved over here, about 4 blocks, but is a major undertaking!
At one point I looked at my phone and saw a text message from my friend, Lee. She had sent it around noon, wondering if I was at the pool and what the weather was like. Two hours later I replied that I was not out at the pool (gasp!) and the blue sky was dotted with white clouds. I had heard it was raining fairly steadily in Middleburg but thus far nothing here. It turned out she was already at the pool, so my boss gave me permission to go out and ease my aching back in the water. That lasted less than an hour but felt good while I was out there. The skies turned black and started to rumble, and folks scattered madly for their homes. "Bye, Lee!"
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I wrote a letter to Frontgate catalog to tell them about the failing of the air mattress, less than 30 nights of use, and already leaking. Today I got a reply apologizing for my inconvenience and their offer to replace it for me. I accept! Love good customer service! They will send me a new bed and I (Justin) can use the box from the replacement bed to send the damaged one back again. Frontgate is covering the shipping so this works! I cannot carry the bed/box and UPS will come and get it from me. Love that!
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After worship today, Michael showed the slide presentation the husband of our member, Tamara, put together wrapping up VBS. I had seen it the day before on Facebook and 'shared' it. The closing slide is of the art piece Justin and I donated in Timmy's memory which I absolutely loved.
Mike S. had to stay after worship for Outreach Sunday so the rest of us went ahead to Chili's to wait for him. There were 'only' seven of us this week, half of what we had last week at La Nopalera! The waitress wondered where we were, and we told her about our extra large number at La Nop, so were excused. She had asked about my absence the previous week, which was very nice, being missed.
Regrettably, I forgot my leftovers in the car overnight on Thursday, so made sure I carried my Chili's leftovers upstairs while Justin toted yet another basket of belongings. He watched Fox News Sunday with me before going back to his father's house, where he plans to stay until next Sunday. While some would think he is homeless, he actually has two places to go! He is a wanted man!
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