I'm pretty sure my computer is on its last legs. The video card appears to be dying on me and that kept me from posting most of the weekend. I'm commandeering my sweetie's computer this morning so I can update you on part of our adventures.
Saturday was the dance recital and I'm going to get one of the girls to post on that as soon as my sweetie has time to get all the pics downloaded and sorted, so I will tell you about Sunday. It just so happens that we had a Sunday afternoon without a birthday party (can you believe it?!). My sweetie didn't think we should just nap away the day, so after lunch he had this brilliant plan to go on a hike up Ensign Peak.
Now if you are not familiar with Utah, Ensign Peak is where Brigham Young declared that "This is the place..." and that we would be building our beautiful city in this great valley. My kids have been up there several times with their church groups, but since my sweetie and I didn't grow up in this valley, neither one of us had ever been there. Besides, on Friday we are taking the girl scout troop to Timpanogos Cave, so we thought a starter hike might be a good idea.
I'm not very good at hiking.
But we did manage to get everyone up to the top as you can see from my cell pics. Going down was tricky. The first step or two I had a shooting pain in my big toe. I figured I had a rock in my shoe, so I found a place to stop and I pull off my shoe. I dumped it out, replaced it and figured I was good. Until the next step gave me the same sensation.
I was starting to wonder if I were going crazy and then I decided maybe whatever it was might be in my sock, so I found another place to stop and I pulled off both.
Nothing.
Then as I was retying my shoe, I spotted the nail in the bottom. It didn't go all the way through, so I only felt it when I had downward pressure on the toe. I pulled it out and it was about a centimeter long. The rest of the trip down was much more comfortable!
When we got back to the house, we made tinfoil dinners and cooked them outside in the fire pit. Drama Queen fried us up some scones and we finished the evening with scriptures and s'mores. It was a beautiful summer evening with some of my favorite people.
I promised you a post about our mini disaster, and I've been putting it off because it is so hard to figure out how to do things on my sweetie's computer. Yes, mine has the blue screen of death on it today...
So back on Memorial Day weekend, when we were out of town for 4 days, something happened to the pressure valves on both of my dishwashers. We got home to water running down through the ceiling in the Dog Walker's room that caused it to collapse on his bed. Thank goodness he wasn't in it!
Over the next day or so, as my beautiful hardwood in the kitchen continued to warp and bow, the water also continued to drip into the bedroom. I finally convinced my sweetie to please check for another source and he discovered that whatever had caused the change in water pressure had taken out both dishwashers!
That's when we decided we had better call our insurance agent so we could try to get some help with the repairs. The Dog Walker's room has mostly been gutted now as you can see. Fortunately we no longer have water dripping, but the damage is already done. The warped part of the kitchen floor is high enough now that it's easy to trip over if I'm not paying attention. And the Dog Walker has been semi-permanently moved to another bedroom for now.
I'm pretty sure my computer is on its last legs. The video card appears to be dying on me and that kept me from posting most of the weekend. I'm commandeering my sweetie's computer this morning so I can update you on part of our adventures.
Now if you are not familiar with Utah, Ensign Peak is where Brigham Young declared that "This is the place..." and that we would be building our beautiful city in this great valley. My kids have been up there several times with their church groups, but since my sweetie and I didn't grow up in this valley, neither one of us had ever been there. Besides, on Friday we are taking the girl scout troop to Timpanogos Cave, so we thought a starter hike might be a good idea.
I was starting to wonder if I were going crazy and then I decided maybe whatever it was might be in my sock, so I found another place to stop and I pulled off both.
Then as I was retying my shoe, I spotted the nail in the bottom. It didn't go all the way through, so I only felt it when I had downward pressure on the toe. I pulled it out and it was about a centimeter long. The rest of the trip down was much more comfortable!
