It seems like a lot of people from meeting have been getting very sick with little time to live. That latest two are one of our workers, Lowell Stidolph and our very good friend Edie Plews. Lowell is around sixty and Edie is probably a little over seventy. These faithful people will surely be missed. There has always been a need to raise godly children, it just seems so much more urgent now.
Kelly and Christian did very well in school yesterday. I worked a little more than usual with Kelly. We corrected the second draft of her annual research report on newspapers and spent probably an hour on fixing math problems she did not understand. Christian finished reading his book on Robert Fulton yesterday and is working hard on getting the first draft of his annual research report on airplanes typed into the computer from his hand written rough draft.
Dad called yesterday. He had gotten us twenty Japanese Lilac Trees. Lorena and I looked them up on the internet. We really did not like them so much because they did not look like they would get very big. They also looked like they would make quite a mess. I called Dad and it felt kind of bad rejecting a free gift. He said he would get some maples instead. Dad and Mom are going to run over to the coast to see Joe and Edie in the next day or two. I hope we can get permission to go, too. It would be nice to see Edie. It would also be nice to spend a day at the coast with the kids.
Quality Corners is still doing quite well. I am hoping to be able to accelerate my move to working there full time, but will not be able to do much of anything until the CNC router gets here. I am hoping that I can generate enough business making parts only possible with a CNC machine and only marketable with an existing pipeline like that of Quality Corners. The last couple of nights, I spent just doing stuff with the kids. It was great for both them and me. I need to get to the place where I am just doing one job so that I can spend the rest of my focus on the family. I will have no regrets for having spent more time with Lorena, Kelly, and Christian. Quality Corners is probably the best route to take to do that. There is a base business with existing customers and marketshare. It will be easier to sell into the existing markets from an existing business than to start from scratch with both.