Howdy Hive.
Blackrat, that's fantastic news that you get to return to school. Glad to hear you have the funds to do that.
Here in Shelby County Indiana it is 9 degrees outside this morning. I am waiting inside my grape-hued interior conversion van (given to us by my inlaws) for the service representative to complete his check of our church house's gas lines and our dual furnaces inside the fellowship hall. A gray squirrel has apparently made his home inside one of the fellowship hall's kitchen cabinets, if the bushy tail and scrabbling noises are evidence.
My grandfather passed away two days after we got here, and then my husband's cousin drowned the next Wednesday in Indian Creek down in Brown County. Our water pump froze and the casing cracked--probably happened well before we bought the property. That's why I'm out here today, waiting on the gent to check our heating system. Once we can get the church heated past freezing, we can replace the water pump and pressure tank.
God is good, even if he does have a sense of humor.