“The RoseBouquet”

This is a new and different morning for me. Helen called from our Western Tract Mission office to say that her husband is sick and needs to be taken the doctor. Joe and Penny, who would normally be at the office and able to cover for her (Helen is the Administrative Assistant, bookkeeper, and receptionist) are away in the USA and only arriving back tomorrow afternoon. She needed someone to cover for her so the office could be open to the public. She wondered if I might help out.

Well, I covered for her a few weeks ago when they needed to go to a funeral, so it didn’t take me long to think and to conclude that I could write my RoseBouquet from Helen’s computer. It just took me a bit to pack up my backpack and 25 minutes to walk over.

Now I’ve spent about half an hour installing Firefox on this computer, as I just seem to need a tabbed browser - and it is free. Then I also need a plain text editor, so I’ve downloaded and installed Textpad for Helen too.

Fortunately I grabbed my password book as I left home, and so I was able to go online get a copy of last week’s RoseBouquet for the outline’s sake, and presto, I’m ready to work from this computer.

My own Azaleas office just upstairs, so I dashed up at the beginning and brought down my cordless phone, so in a sense, I’m even available if I get any business calls of my own.

There’s something sweet about being able to pick up my work and do it from another location on such short notice.

I’m even able to listen to my favourite background radio while I work, I love my BBN! Especially when Lynn Brooks reads the Christian Classics.

Incidentally, yesterday I got my dahlias and 6 short rows of potatoes planted! I hope to sow the other veggies sometime this week too.