We had Missy home for the weekend! This was parents' weekend so Beth and I were going to go down there for the scheduled activites, but none of us were very interested in them, so we had Missy come here instead. Beth went and got her Friday night, and she said the traffic around Muncie was crazy. We stayed in Friday night, and on Saturday we all went to Black Pine Animal Sanctuary. What we didn't know was that they now do only group tours, not just general admission. Not sure why, maybe staffing or something. But fortunately there was a large group of Girl Scouts just arriving for a tour when we got there, so they let us sneak in and hitch a ride as it were. Missy had to work on a map of some sort for a class project, and she wanted to do the map of the sanctuary. The map needs to incorporate sights and sounds, and feelings and smells and such, as you're walking around, so she brought a sketch pad and drew stuff as we went. I'm not sure there has ever been so many animals sleeping or otherwise unavailable while we were there, but some of the highlights (tigers and other big cats, couple bears) were out and about. We spent a couple hours there before heading back home. We told her she could choose anywhere for dinner and she picked Oak & Alley. Sunday we all went to church, then she got together with a friend for a little while in the afternoon until it was time to head back to Muncie. We got dinner there, did a little more shopping for some supplies she needed, and dropped her off (with her clean laundry). We finally got to meet Kaylee her roommate, with whom she seems to get along really well. 

My group at work had a volunteer day with Habitat for Humanity Tuesday this week. There is a house that is nearly done and we went over to paint. Habitat provided all the paint and painting supplies, and we provided the labor. They said they thought a single coat was fine but I would have said not. Anyway, we painted the great room, the laundry room, two bedrooms, a bathroom, and some closets completely in just about 3 hours. I was basically just painting the edges of the walls and ceilings for someone else to come paint the rest of the wall behind me, which worked out really well. We got everything done even faster that the Habitat team leader thought we would. 

Work on the downstairs continues, but it's going to be a slow pace. I got a piece of drywall this week to replace the nasty old plywood temporary fix that was put up probably 30 years ago at least, but it wasn't easy to find it. Well, at Menard's anyway. They had none. NONE. Except for a stack of damaged drywall sheets, which I picked one of. The damaged sheets were going for $9, which is more than a new and good one should be. Those are about $21 each if they had any, They have some at Lowe's but I think I'll just keep the work space small and work through the basement one piece at a time.