It's Finally Warm Enough, After Tonight's Snow, to Get Some Window Work Done, Maybe

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With my job I get five weeks of vacation since I've been there twenty-one year. Actually, I qualified for the five weeks after about half that time. For the past few years our store director has been having us pick out three full weeks we want to take off. The only thing is we need to decide in January or thereabouts. Unless we have a trip planned far in advance, it's rare for me to know ahead of time when I want to take off, but this being a surgery year things are different. My knee surgery is set for June 5th at present, so I requested the beginning of May off so we could get a good start on our window customers in preparation for not working much in June. That vacation begins tomorrow. I had hoped to keep my employees busy for six to eight hours per day, but after last week and my being extra tired after working, I've changed my mind and am hoping for five to six hours per day instead. That doesn't mean that I need to actually do any of the work, but it does mean me going around and making sure the rest of them know what they are doing. I have a lot of work ahead of me tomorrow after church because I have yet to schedule much of the week ahead. The fun part will be figuring out whether it will rain at all on any of the days and then working people in when they are free. I expect it will also entail me doing a lot of driving around which is also quite tiring especially when we can do several jobs in a day's time. I also need to call all the people we typically do in June and see if they would like us to come later in May instead. I have over twenty people that have called to be fit in this spring/summer, but many don't want them done just yet, unfortunately. And, some may not get them done before my surgery if they aren't free when I am free. I was hoping that by now the weather would be staying steady, but it's still all over the board. It goes up and down twenty degrees every day or few days and tonight a bit of snow may show up, or it may not come this far north. For those that do see any snow at least it shouldn't last. The picture is of my Christmas Cactus when it bloomed at Christmas this year. It started again before Easter but already seems to be done. I need to remember to water it more often so one of these years I can get the whole plant to bloom rather than only in one or two spots.