Crazy week

This week has been really insane. Both boys are now home for the summer.

Sunday was M's choir promotion and award ceremony. He is no longer a probationer. Now he is a junior chorister with his light blue ribbon. On Sunday, we also went to a church that B may be the part time priest. The boys did quite well for it being a two service Sunday, especially when the first service was looooonnnnngggg.

B is doing a wedding on Saturday. He has been extremely busy at church most nights this week. He has rehearsal tonight, and the wedding tomorrow. The building project is waiting for supplies to come in and for a miracle to deal with the doubled price of asphalt. There actually may be miracle in the wings.

I am officially halfway through my summer class and tutoring. It's been a very good class, but boy am I tired by Friday. I'm used to teaching three days a week with T/R off for (I want to say good behavior) L's specialist appointments in Cincinnati. I'm lecturing for two hours at a go, too.
This week I started commuting partway to school. I drive to the best bike shop (one of the only places in Lex that will let you park and not tow your car) and ride in from there. I managed to drive to Lex the whole week on a single tank of gas. Amazing. My stats for the week I'll write down by themselves.

On Wednesday, we had a scare with Murfy (our elderly dog of undetermined age). He's been spending a lot of time sleeping under beds, so we aren't too surprised when we don't see or hear him for an evening. Somehow though on Wednesday, he got out. Of course, we didn't discover this until 11:00 at night, and black dogs tend to disappear in the dark. B went looking for him, and we were both worried that he'd had a heart attack or something and was somewhere dead. Eventually we had to give up and go to bed, but we thought we could hear him. Then we had storms all night long. : ( Thursday am we started looking again and I tangled with barbed wire (I am glad that I had a tetanus shot last summer), and were not seeing him. We began asking random people on the street if they'd seen our dog. First people we asked had him! They live behind us and have a kennel and had put him in there to keep him safe. They thought he was a beautiful sweet dog (although not too bright) and were getting ready to call the humane society, the newspaper etc. I'm not sure why a dog who can barely decide to go upstairs, will wander off.

So that has been our week.

Other stuff: I started two different shawls (I need a project for tutoring time) and haven't gotten very far on them. One's a gift. The other is for me. No pictures yet, because there is not much to see.

Cycling: I had my Dolce adjusted so I can use my highest set of gears. I didn't get to ride it this week as I started commuting into school. I plan on going for a long ride on Sunday or Monday. The commuting has been going well. In four days (I didn't ride on Thursday due to bad weather being forecast), I managed to get in 43.63 miles, and averaged 13.3 mph. Not too bad, considering that riding in town is slower. My best average speed was today (14.5 mph, woot!), so next week should be even better. I definitely could go longer on the rides. I think that a century is definitely something that I can do this year.