Domestic Priest

Today was a "domestic" day around here. Not that I didn't go to the office, I did. But I had a sort of honey-do list that wasn't given to me by my honey. In short, it looked like this:

1. Shovel snow
2. Took me twice as long to get to VC in the storm, where I thought I'd be shoveling snow.
2a. When I walked up to the church, one of the locals was already shoveling for me.
3. Vacuumed the church today.
3a. Changed the bag and cleaned the vacuum cleaner before actually doing #3.
4. Changed two lights in one of our chandeliers. This means hauling out the 12' step ladder from the organ pump-room, setting it up, changing the bulbs, then putting the ladder back.
4b. Make sure to not tell anyone I do this by myself.
5. Changed the hymn board (well, okay, not technically domestic, but it needed to be done)
6. Shovel snow

I did get the sermon finished. Then I decided to go home early because I didn't know what shape the roads were in -- first winter storm and all. Turns out I could've stayed the rest of the day, the roads were fine. When I got home, I

7. Shoveled snow.
8. Called my sidewalk contractor to make sure the concrete would be okay and that it would still be ready by Sunday. He assured me it would be.
9. Fielded a couple of calls that came into the CC office (since I was here and all)

That was about it. Did I mention that I shoveled snow today? Yeah . . .