It's been a fruitful but rough weekend. I seem to have caught some of the ich that the rest of the family has gone through. Runny nose, little bit of a cough and stuffy head. This was not the weekend to experience this as we had just picked up items to make a wardrobe for our bedroom and had started to disassemble the room.
We did manage to move things around and I got all of the flooring laid in the bedroom, which is 18'x18'. Once you get going on the Pergo plank flooring it is fairly easy to get it all to click into place. Moving around on my knees while doing that is not something that my 50 year old body does as easily as it had 10 or 20 years ago.
My wife painted the entire room something that makes it feel much more warm and inviting, versus the blue-ish purple that was in there before. I am sure there is an actual name for that color, but I am the type of person that acknowledges the name of about a dozen colors. Everything else is just a shade of those. In any case it the room has a much more uplifting vibe now.
She also helped me replace all the outlets. I am not a big fan of working with electricity and she is even less so. Outlets aren't very difficult, but I'm always afraid of getting a jolt. We double and triple checked that there wasn't any power to them even after we had thrown the breaker. Which only leaves the ceiling fan as the last powered item to replace, but that is for another day.
I have a really tough time with Sundays being a day of rest. Becoming Catholic and trying to adhere to this has been a challenge for me. It doesn't seem that there is a exceedingly clear guidance on how this applies. I figure taking the boys out to dig post holes to put up fence is pretty clear as something we shouldn't do. Although tending the animals, which can involve some pretty physical activities, is in bounds. I imagine years ago that the shepards had to take their flocks out for the day and bring them back. Christianity was not just for the wealthy that could afford to pay people to do all the tasks that needed doing on a day so they could be idle. I firmly believe we need to make sure to take time out for worship and that anything else we do during that day needs fall secondary to that. It's the servile work and what that constitutes in the modern day that throws me a bit off.
A first go at getting the Rosary texts is online as well as the Sunday family prayer we recite every Sunday. I'm sure I probably have something I didn't get correct in them as there seems to often be a gap between my mental process and what actually comes out on the keyboard. I can type fairly fast (many years of BBS Muds) though at time my brain and fingers don't seem to be in sync.
I also added the Sunday family prayer that we say every week.