I’m going to start this update with the
news from our family business meeting tonight; mostly because it included the
most important information – though not all of it would actually be news to the
people involved with the various projects.
First up, despite the weather flip-flops,
the main structure of the new medical center – which I should really call the
Witch Falls Professional Building since it is going to have more there than
just the clinic – is completed now; and the construction crew will spend the
winter working on the interior of the building all winter. It is also still on-time for being ready to
open by the end of this coming June; so it really won’t be that much longer
before Uncle Adam and Uncle Mark will need to start getting ready for the move
from the old clinic.
Aunt Leanne will start working on a
side-project to go along with that in the New Year too – and we have plans for
re-purposing the old clinic that will be important for a lot of families in
town; including ours.
Next up, the second apartment building is
closed in and ready for interior work all winter too. That project is booked to be completed by
sometime in June too; so that’ll keep all of the construction crews busy through
until then. We have a break for major
construction planned after that, and won’t need the full construction crews
after that, but there will still be lots of work for everyone interested in
staying in Witch Falls and more who will likely continue to rotate in and out
as the members of the current crews do now.
The Second-Hand Store opened today, and
while I didn’t have time to check it out tonight; I’ll get there sometime this
week. I hope they do well and everyone
helps to support their charity efforts.
Mom and Aunt Leanne stopped in and picked up a few things each; though
that was also mostly kid stuff. Aunt
Leanne will be in need of maternity clothes in the not-too distant future; and
Mom didn’t really look for anything for herself today after spending most of
her time going through the kid clothes with Aunt Leanne. It was apparently a quiet day in the store –
at least up to the time they were there; but I’m sure they’ll be busy this
weekend. I just wish I could be here for
the shopping too!
There were project updates tonight for the
solar-wind farm and other infrastructure plans, and while all of that is good
for everyone in town; it wasn’t exactly the most exciting part of the night for
me. Being self-sufficient for
electricity by the end of the summer next year will be cool, though; and it’ll
be nice to have a near-zero worry about power outages after that during the
winter. I guess there is one other
infrastructure project that’ll be fun for us; though that’s because it’ll mean
getting to see the Malloys in town now and then while Terry handles the civil
engineering for a second bridge that we’re going to put in between the new
section of town and River Road. That’ll
eventually put Uncle Mark and Aunt Grace a hop across the river from the lab
and med center once it’s completed; but it’s more to resolve the long-standing
problem of only having one bridge across the river with a huge detour anytime
the Quarry Road bridge needs to be closed for any reason.
We also did another update tonight on high
school senior plans, and while I’m not directly involved in any of that; it is
still nice to see that we’re planning for the future in ways that were never
done to any real extent before here in town.
There are going to be new opportunities available around here for
decades to come now; so thinking five or six years out doesn’t seem like a big
deal right now. Some of those
opportunities, like for Violet and Dillon, are specifically for Magi; but there
are going to be a lot of new jobs available for young adults doing a lot of
different kinds of high-skill work – whether they’re Magi or not.
Finally, at least for tonight; we did a
fairly extensive review of the family business.
Pretty much everything we have going on right now is continuing to get
better and better, and as our business interests continue to expand; we have
more opportunities for our charities – and money to spend on them. Nancy Emerson practically has a full-time job
coordinating our local travel volunteers; though she has lots of help for that
now too. There’s too much going on with
everything to write about it in any detail here; but there are other, better
archive sources for that data anyway. Bottom
line here, though, is that we’ve done good for yet another year – even with all
of the challenges for business and charities around the world.
Compared to that, the rest of my day seems
trivial. Football reigned supreme at
school; the guys on the team are practically superheroes to the younger boys;
and Dan had her cheerleaders working extra hard today at our practice to get us
ready for an appearance on a very big stage this Friday. Travel and hotel arrangements have been taken
care of already too; so we know what’s going on with that too; but we don’t
know everything yet – like whether the guys will be able to take dates to the
dinner they’ll have Friday night. I’ll
keep you posted on that.
Our cheerleading practice was nearly as
long as the football practice, so I waited for Michael; and went home with him
for dinner – and to do our homework before I needed to be home for our little
meeting. We didn’t have time for any
music practices, so I did that on my own after the meeting to get ready for
band and praise team practices. All of
that extra activity meant a really late start to my study and work time tonight
– like after midnight kind of late.
There was a Magi lesson tucked in there too, and I spent some time
tucking Ethan and Ehlana in when they were ready to go to bed; but that was all
fun – even though that play time added to the late night I’m just getting to
the end of now.
I don’t have anything to add from all of
the studying or family business work.
The main reason I’ve stayed up so late is because I really only have one
more night to get my work done for the week now; so I’ll have another late
night tomorrow – right before we get to the holiday weekend late nights with
family and friends starting with the incoming family on Wednesday night.
That thought has me wishing that taking a
vacation next week was an option to rest up ahead of Christmas; but that won’t
be an option either. I’ll have to go
with a little Magi-powered self-healing when needed – which I expect to need in
a couple of hours when I need to get up and going again.
Nap time is next on my to-do list for that
couple of hours, and that’s all I have for today anyway; so, until next time...
...May the Magi Force be with you!
