Recapping the Week

Admin
It was quite a week. We held our monthly staff meeting, had our group meeting (staff plus apprentices and trainees meet as a group every other week), I pulled the December GroundCrew newsletter together, sent it off in rough draft to Tammy who handles our final publication design, and prepared material for the support development orientation I'm leading Monday and Tuesday for the leadership of Compass Twenty-One Ministries. An additional responsibility I have on Fridays is to clean the five offices, receipting room, conference room, and reception bay that make up the administrative area. I dump the trash, vacuum the floor, and clean the bathroom and the kitchen area.

There is a lot of change going on at MMS right now. Partially in response to MSI's recommendations from their visit last week and in a larger sense from our organizational drive to define a "vision" for MMS. Once we have the vision defined we'll be able to start determining how to best implement "living" the vision on a daily basis personally as well as in our administrative and hangar operations. It's a challenging process requiring extensive mental and emotional investment of everyone in the group. It's good, but it's hard.

Tanner
I took Tanner to the vet today. He does pretty well there. As long as he can see me or touch me he stays real calm. He's developed an allergy of some sort that caused inflammation and itchiness in his paws and ears. He was having it pretty rough the past couple days but we were able to get in at our wonderful vet's office. Doc gave him a thorough exam, determined him to be in great health, beyond the allergic inflammation, and gave him a steroid shot. That did the trick. What an improvement!

Taking in the Local Culture
This weekend is the Apple Butter Stirrin' Festival in Roscoe Village here in town. It's the last festival of the tourist season in Coshocton County. We may try to get over there for a few minutes tomorrow.

We hope you have a great weekend.