I started washing my windows today. I broke one. Not the glass itself, the mechanism that allows me to fold the window inward to clean the outside of the glass. That abruptly stopped that activity. I puttered, cleaned out a closet, rearranged and organized the space. Ethan seems in good spirits. He even helped me carry some things to rearrange and make room to organize things in our basement. It has become a fire hazard with all the kids things in “storage”. Paul was busy with the trench digger he rented. He was having a grand time digging, putting pipe in the ground and getting out the tractor to fill in the dirt. He was absolutely filthy when he came in the house. Like Pigpen from the Peanuts cartoon. He stripped and showered immediately. Ethan had us watching a show with ghost hunters exploring a haunted asylum in Pennsylvania. The people were very animated. By the end I was overwhelmed by the amount of words they said, volume of their voices and I needed to retreat to silence....
Ethan put in his 2 week notice of resignation at his current position. He is starting with a company that works with Tritium and helps create ways to store it. Ethan will be doing specialized welding. This is the second kid in this house to be working with Tritium. This is what Avery was doing her research on this past summer. I have never even heard of it before this summer, with Avery’s research project. Ethan is pretty excited for the opportunity. It sort of presented itself to him. Someone he used to work with, his father works for this company. The previous coworker shared Ethan’s information with his dad. Networking at its finest. Ethan was supposed to tell his manager about his resignation. He was nervous. I shared with him how nervous I had been about doing so throughout my career. It’s never fun. Even the one job I was so relieved to leave was difficult. Paul is preparing for many projects this weekend. His goals are to do some trenching/ drainage control. He ...