People are good...

Well, it's been a busy week. It started with the Labor (sic!) Day weekend. On the Saturday, Colin and Janet had some friends around from Petaluma (the town near San Francisco where they used to live). It turns out that their son is on a "gap year", campaigning for Barak Obama and other things before going to university next September, so they have his double bed and desk that they were going to put into storage. That "problem" was soon solved, and we borrowed a trailer from some other friends of C&J here and collected the bed and desk on Monday (the public holiday). We dropped the furniture off in Davis on the way back (Davis is on the highway between Sac and SF, so it was very convenient). Also on the way back, we stopped off at Ikea (an AMAZING scandinavian furniture chain - I fell in love with their stuff years ago in the UK - lovely quality and style, with very reasonable prices) in Sacramento where I bought some bedding.

We went to church on Saturday evening again, as the Petaluma friends wanted to hear the guest speaker: a young Australian man, Nick Vujicic, who was born with no arms and no legs. He had an amazing story to tell of his life, and how God had helped him to deal with the frustration of his disability.

On Monday evening we went out for supper to a very nice Italian restaurant to celebrate the boys' birthday on Tuesday (hard to believe that they're 17 now!).

Getting back to furniture, C&J have also lent me an old chest of drawers that they had been given years ago, and which Colin had in his closet here, but wasn't really using. That didn't have a top on it, so we bought a piece of wood, which Colin sliced, diced and routed with his impressive collection of power tools - the top is now the best part of the whole thing! I took that and the Ikea bedding through to Davis on Tuesday when I had to see the letting agent to put in my application form, so my room is almost ready for occupation. I'll probably move down to Davis sometime this coming week and start getting settled in down there.

It's been a good week for the Hobsons too. As well as Bryn and Jared's birthday on Tuesday, Janet had a job interview on Wednesday and was offered the job. It is perfect for her, part-time close to home and building on her skills in web design. She starts there in mid-September.