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The ag. show is over, after a last day that unusually stayed busy through most of the afternoon. I didn't start packing up stuff until after 3, when the official close is at 4. Some years, I've started packing before 2 because no one was stopping at the booth. Good week overall, but I'm glad it's done.

( exhibit teardown, dinner, and tales of woe on electronics )

I'll drive back to Atlanta tomorrow morning after Daddy and I tackle another one or two of the items on his to-do list. I'm hoping for a smooth trip with no mechanical breakdowns. I think I'm due...

Here I am in Moultrie, Ga. for the Sunbelt Agricultural Expo, with an exhibit on "what USGS does in Georgia", a few general fact sheets and publications, and about 50 Earth Science Week teacher packets to hand out. ( Hometown visit, booth-sitting, and Meet The Congressman! )

I will soon take an Advil for my aching feet and legs, and head to bed. The show opens again tomorrow at 8:30.

Elder niece's bat mitzvah is on the 28th, and before various relatives descend I have a list of things I want to get done in the house. A long list. Which is, however, shrinking rapidly due to Real Life. (Note that a similar list exists next door where niece lives, resulting in such recent events over there as a new driveway being poured, the house being painted, etc.) ( Items that are done, and the wish list of not-done )
The new carpet purchase for the living room was on the list, and the carpet got installed today, according to my sister-in-law who supervised the job. She also discovered that the plan to shut the cats in the Cat Room is a non-starter, as Fish, the Cat of Very Little Brain, can open the Cat Room pocket door in nothing flat. So much for the use of the Cat Room as an isolation area...

The contractor called last week and wanted to do my bathroom work (countertop replacement, along with new faucets, lavatories, and toilets) today. My sister-in-law agreed to cope with this, which means shutting up the cats and letting the workers into the house. Let me note that the same contractor is replacing windows at their house this week, so she had to be around for some part of the day anyway.

Then on Monday my roofer called, and wanted to install my new power attic vent and to replace the rusted-out furnace pipe....today. Called my sainted sister-in-law, and she agreed to deal with him, too.

So today at the farm show, I spent a good bit of time on the cell phone getting updates from s-i-l. Except for the period that the cell-phone load overwhelmed the available circuits and people got shunted to voice mail, that is. (They bring in a portable cell tower for the show, but apparently that wasn't enough...)

The good news: the roofer is done and left an invoice that I'll pay when I get home. S-i-l says the counter in the master bath is in and looks good. The guest bath counter, on the other hand, was done in the wrong color, so the fabricators have been sent away to get the right color, the plumber who was to hook everything up was cancelled, and my house is without a working bathroom at the moment. (I guess--it's possible the plumber was to remove the old toilets when he came, so those might still be functional.) I'm glad to be out of town, and the contractor has checked to see when I'm due back to be sure (I hope) that things are done before I get there.

There was some persistent confusion on this Corian color: the fabricator had left a sample tile of "vanilla" for me, when that was never a color I considered. What did they come in with? "Vanilla". Hopefully they will show up Thursday with "linen", and get it installed.