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Back to work today — you know that’s a four letter word 😛

Our Great Plains project deadline is fast approaching and we still have some obstacles to hurdle with it. Traci called me in a panic because her integration stopped pulling in taxes, but we got that resolved and everything is smooth there. I’m waiting on logistics to get me a clean list of new part numbers — they sent me a list of over 3000 parts, but there are a lot of duplicates which I can’t upload as the descriptions and/or costs are different. They’re going to have to clean up the list and resend it to me before I can put them in the system. In the meantime, I’m continuing to work on pulling reports that everyone wants to see from the new system to match the ones we had on the old system. It’s both easier and more difficult.

GP has some nice reporting tools, but their table structure is so doggone un-userfriendly that counters the ease of using the tools! Oh well, it will all come together in the end.

Only have 3 days to work this week as I’m taking Friday off as a vacation day and Ken and I are headed to Pinehurst for a dog show. I’m hoping it won’t be blistering hot there, but since it usually IS blistering hot, I won’t be surprised if it is.

Ken may get to go to Daytona Beach for a few days. BMW is sending teams of 12-14 people down there to test drive some of the cars on the track — why Daytona I don’t know, but we are not to reason why 🙂 I’ll miss him while he’s gone, but know it’ll be a nice break for him from working like he has been all year this year.

Enough for today.

Love,

Margaret

Boy was it hot today! Started the day off by trying to do some of the trimming around the house with the weed eater. Could not get it to advance the string and when the existing string got down to about 1″, I put it away and dragged out the push mower. I still need to pull up all the grass in the canna lily patches, but that will have to wait for now.

Did any of y’all have June bugs in April? We did. The dogs feasted on them for weeks until the temperatures dropped and they disappeared. Now that it’s warmed back up again, I’ve been concerned that we’ll see another “outbreak” of them and they’ll eat all my roses and newly sprouting lilies, but so far, I haven’t seen any. The butterflies are out in abundance, though. I saw a lot of yellow ones and one or two aqua colored ones. I wanted to get a picture of those, but by the time I had more batteries for the camera, they had disappeared. I did get a photo of a white one. These all look just exactly alike — the size, markings, etc. Just the base color of the butterfly is different I think I read somewhere that the white one was something significant (like one sex or the other), but I don’t remember for sure.

Janet came down and I took her to the daylily lady’s (Barbara) house. We spent 3-1/2 hours there pouring over her flower beds and her books on the different dayliliy varieties she has. Janet is creating some new beds at her house and wanted a color schemed set of daylilies for them. She bought one called “Tears of Love” to go on Bailey’s grave. I can’t wait to see the beds when she finishes them and they are blooming. She was so generous and shared some of her purchases with me, so now I have a few new lilies to add to my flower bed, too. I can’t wait for them to begin blooming!

Be sure to check out my nephew, Colin’s blog site — I’ve added a link to it over on the right. He takes some AWESOME photographs and you can literally spend hours looking through all his album pages. He has been asked to put on a show of his photography in August. I wish I was closer to St. Louis so I could go see it. I also wish he could come and take some pictures of the Whippets running. I think he would capture some special shots if he would.

Have a great day!

Love,

Margaret