After our concrete pour last week, it has taken a while to get back the strength to even enjoy days off from work. Brian rested Friday, but worked Saturday and Sunday laying pipe with a friend, but today was tard and took most of the day off. Ken took most of Friday, Saturday and Sunday off and worked on the tractor today, but is also tard. I took Friday off, went with a group on Saturday to the Whistle Stop Cafe in Juliette, GA where Fried Green Tomatoes was filmed, attended Bible Study and church and did our laundry yesterday, raked and shoveled dirt around the concrete pour today and right now, am pretty tard, as well.
Karen had to see the doctor today sensing another sinus infection coming on, and she is tard, too, but still worked in the accounting office before and after the doctor. But most of us are tard from work, family responsibilities, too little sleep, or just getting spread too thin with our lives. For too many the glass is half empty and we don't enjoy the half full part as much as we ought to. The good thing about being a volunteer is that we always have the option of slowing down or even stopping for a while. The problem for Karen and me is that we enjoy volunteering, have difficulty saying no, and wake up each day eager to do what we are asked to do, even if we are tard. And sometimes, the time off wears us out more than the time at work, so we just go to work.
For now, our plan to set out Friday or Saturday remain the same (assuming Karen is feeling up to driving), but our destination of Kentucky or Arkansas is not definite, to be decided in the next few days. We've been "warned" that there is much to be done in Arkansas in preparation for the Passion Play opening performance on May 5, but we also hear that there are a bunch of workers coming to the harvest, eager to "git er done". Tard or not, here we come. Be there when we get there.
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