House Sitting

Monday and Tuesday this past week we finished painting the stage at the Palmyra Stake Center.  We had previously painted the “U” shaped part of the stage, the part of the stage where the actors actually perform.  That was high enough, about 18 feet.  This week we finished by painting the stairwells on each side of the stage.  At the highest end, the walls are about 4 feet higher than the stage itself.  I thought it was impossible for the two of us to do it, but Elder Poulson never says, “die”.  So, did it we did.  It does look great and should last until the young men throw their basketballs against the walls, sigh.

Wednesday morning Elder Poulson had a “procedure” on his left hand to relieve some numbing and tingling he has been experiencing. An MRI showed a ganglia in his wrist/palm that is pressing on the nerve to his ring and small fingers.  The surgeon tried to suck out the fluid with a syringe, but it didn’t work.  He did get the ganglia punctured though and Elder Poulson feels like the circulation is improving.  We’ll give it a week or two and if it isn’t completely healed or at least almost better, the surgeon will have to “go in” and get the ganglia.  Never a dull minute here.

Thursday we installed blinds we purchased for a missionary couple’s apartment.  The old blinds were falling apart and were being held together with toothpicks and scotch tape as splints. 

Now, Friday through Monday, we’re house-sitting for a couple we work with here in Palmyra.  They are church employees here but have a home and family in Vermont.  They are spending the long week-end in Vermont and we are sitting with their chickens and 2 cats.  It has snowed all night and now all day and we’re “snowed in”.  They have a dirt/gravel driveway that is winding and steep and now icy.  I’m not venturing out in our truck on that until it is cleared.  That just might not be until tomorrow.

The plus side of this house-sitting is that they have bird feeders and lots of eastern birds.  Here are just a few example of what we’re watching out the glass patio doors.