Well, that was a pretty rough week. I am really glad it's over.

On Friday morning, I got in just a few minutes after 8. Meredith was not there. She had texted me, but it took me a while to think of checking my phone. She was getting her car registered and therefore had to renew her license, all of which took time.

In the meantime, our challenging board member, Maureen, had called. She wanted copies of statements from last year. She was going to take them to the bank and try to get copies of all the checks that were deposited and not properly entered in QuickBooks. So I got the statements and faxed them to her.

Then we got letters that some documentation we had submitted for a grant reimbursement was not acceptable. We sent the receipts and copies of bank statements showing the checks had cleared. But they want copies of the front and back of the cancelled checks, for which our bank charges $1 per copy. Taylor worked on that some and will hopefully finish it Monday.

Worked a little on policies. Slow hard work. Kerri was busy--she had 4 intakes, so she couldn't work with me on it.

I took a break at lunchtime and drove to the Mexican restaurant not far away. It was a warm sunny day and there was a long line, but it turns out if you want to sit at the counter, you don't have to wait. That was a nice surprise and I enjoyed my lunch: shrimp chowder, fish taco, salad, sweet tea.

When we got home, my Dad was working on building a "chicken tractor." This is a sort of large cage that you put in your garden and put chickens in, so they can eat the bugs and dig up the soil. We have been thinking that chickens are the only way to solve our grasshopper problem. My Mom was helping him nail pieces of wood together, but she was coughing. I changed my clothes and went out to take her place. Often projects turn out to be more trouble than you would think. This was going pretty well, until he hammered my thumb. I certainly did not see it coming and was shocked and it hurt like @**. I put ice on it and it is still a little painful this morning. I will probably lose that nail; there is a blue-green patch on it.

I picked 3 strawberries when I took my walk around last night--not quite ripe, but we will eat them today anyway. Enjoyed asparagus and lettuce, a few radishes.

There is a lovely steady rain out there this morning and I know the plants are really going to benefit from it.