I was awakened at 7:10 am on the morning of the Festival Jury with a phone call from my cottage tenant.

She told me the sink had fallen off the wall in the bathroom.

My first question was “Is there water spewing?”

“No,” she said.

That was good news. And next I said in jest, “Well, you had said you wanted to have a new sink.”

“I wouldn’t pull a stunt like that.” She sounded very upset, and hadn’t realized I was trying to lighten up the situation, not accuse her of doing anything to have caused the sink to fall off the wall.

We got that sorted out and I told her to be sure I had a key, as her brother had changed the lock when he moved in, so I could have my plumber friend look at it.

She leaving soon, and I just didn’t want to hurry up and get dressed to look at it, but I did go into the basement and turn off all of the water to the cottage as she couldn’t find shut off valves just for the sink and we really didn’t need to have a flooded cottage with us both gone for the day.

I called and left a message for my plumber friend and told him where he could find a key if he had time to look at it while we were gone. Not sure I remembered to tell him about the kitty that needed to not escape.

On Tuesday, I had bought a connector for the projector at Staples that did not work. I had called to see if anyone had a PC laptop, no one did. So I decided we would just look at the images on the screen of one or two of my laptops. I had called and told the member hosting the jury at her home that we did not need to use the screen, but needed a way to look at the laptop or laptops. We decided if she added an extra piece to her kitchen table, that that would work just fine, and it did. When I called her on Tuesday afternoon, she had upsetting news to tell me, she had broken the glass part of the Coffeemaker I had brought over a week before. That was the least of my worries, as she did have a smaller coffeemaker to use and I had not used this one for many years. I don’t drink coffee and never had brought it out for any gatherings as Festival committee meetings happened at night. It had come here when my parents visited as they had to have coffee, but mostly been hidden in a cabinet all these many years past.

I finished gathering what I needed for the Commonwheel Art Festival jury session and drove to the home where it was to take place. A bit stressed, but what could one do, but continue on with one’s scheduled day. Admittedly, thinking about what this would cost put a damper on my spirits and I was really concerned how this would effect my trip in June and if I could buy the Tony Laidig program for learning PhotoShop. Well, surely if I just bought the least expensive piece of it, I could still do that and get the training.

This member hosting the jury session was an excellent hostess. She added food items to the very complete offerings I had, so we did not go hungry during this all day process.

There were not enough entries to fill the park, and still we had to reject a few and put a couple on the Wait List as there were too many in a couple of categories. With no really bad looking art, this was hard. Still a few offerings did not please all members of the jury, so rejections happened.

I will have to put out a call for an extended deadline with a few categories closed as I have one year in the past. More extra work for me. And I will go back and listen to the phone calls to see if I can invite some of those who missed the deadline to be apply. There was at least one that sounded interesting and different from anything we accepted.

We all worked well together, had some stories to tell of travels during lunch on the patio with a great view of Pikes Peak in the sunshine.

Finished up with one glitch. Neither of the people who were pulling checks and applications from the return envelopes heard me say to put the applications in their categorized folder that they came out of.  Not a big deal, but just a bit of extra time before we could get packed up and finished with the whole jury session.

I had had a phone call from my plumber and my traveling companion during the session. Each had something I needed to deal with later. So when I got home made those phone calls. My plumber friend had estimated it would cost me about $300 to buy the replacement sink and the faucet, not good news, and that didn’t include his labor to put it in if the father couldn’t.

Talking with my traveling companion for Young Living, she offered to give me a massage Friday in place of a cancellation she had and told me she needed me to do some more computer work for her, so we could do a trade. That sounded great to my sore body. And I will get a Raindrop Treatment on Saturday as the demo body, so that should help me heal more.

My roommate was rather low key and stretched out on the porch. She told me she had done a great deal of seed planting in the garden today. And that some negative energy from people from the past had been strongly around her. She went off to a healer to help remove that energy from around her and the house.

My cottage tenant had called to say her father would come and look at the situation that evening when he was off work. So I was sitting on the front porch when the cottage tenant came home and she had some lovely news for me. Since she had wanted to put a new sink in the bathroom, they had gone and bought the sink and he would install it. We chatted about her cat and made jokes about him having jumped up and broke it as he is a heavy kitty. Then I mentioned I would need some help watering the garden when I was traveling and she could do that. And she needed someone to watch over her kitty when when she would be traveling earlier in June. I will happily watch over Louie and make sure he doesn’t get too lonely while she is gone.

When her parents showed up, I told them how very thankful I was to have them in my life. I thanked them profusely for taking care of this problem. And they assured me they had planned on doing it a bit later in the summer, but since this problem happened now, they just wanted to get it fixed quickly and their daughter would be happy with the new sink for a longer time.

I was really tired, but couldn’t rest easily, so took my camera out to the garden and played a bit with some macro shots and tried to get the perfect image of an Iris with the creek water running behind it.

I listened to the Tony Laidig Expert Media PhotoShop training and it was really helpful. I need to purchase that program and get myself promoting it in hopes of creating some income soon. And I looked at the info for the Kindle book class, need to get that affiliate link also.

And now I have stayed up way too late tonight, catching up with these last few challenging days with a few magical and lovely pieces.

My hiking partner did not call back, so not sure what I will do tomorrow, but I really need to spend some time in nature and not bending over in the garden, as much as I love my wonderful flowers growing there.