The Commons
BYU Campus
The Cannon Center at Helaman Halls has been replaced with a new eatery called The Commons. It opened less than 2 weeks ago. The place is much larger than the old Cannon Center, they have designed it to look a lot less like some sort of barracks cafeteria. They have little tables to eat all over the place. They have lots of different food stations - cereal, burgers, salads, desserts, and a couple of entree sections. The place is organized to break up the table sections so it doesn't seem as loud and noisy as the old one. They have big giant picture windows on the North side of the cafeteria, it kind of reminds of the scene from Ghostbusters where Rick Moranis runs to the restaurant at Central Park for some reason.
The food was good, they have it set up to make the food just before you go get it. This makes it much fresher and hot. There are people in the inside section of the salad bar, continually refilling the stuff, so it doesn't get messy or nasty. I thought the place was well designed to limit the noise from the mass of diners, and I like the new tray return. (You have to see it, I won't describe it here.) The place looks much more like a campus cafeteria now, and lots less like a high school cafeteria like the old Cannon Center did.
Friday, August 08, 2008
Wednesday, August 06, 2008
Good Blog Fodder
I have finally discovered a good use for the airlines. They are good for blog fodder.
I've been looking at flights to Orlando for a couple of months, prices have been higher than I've been super happy about. Add that to the myriad of extra fees the airlines have been coming up with, and it can be very easy to get into trouble. Yesterday I bought our tickets on Southwest airlines. The price was about $30 more or so than I could have gotten, but they won't be charging us for things like the following possible fees:
When we got to the airport, there was some confusion about "Northwest" and "Northwest operated by Skywest". There were no signs for Skywest, I dropped them off at terminal 1. While driving up to terminal 2, the Skywest signs finally showed up. I called my Mom's cell phone to let them know they were at thee wrong place, but her phone started ringing in the car. She had forgotten it. I drove around the airport to get to the parking to go in.
I met up with them, they had discovered the mistake as well, or were directed away by the Northwest people. When we got to the Delta/Skywest counters, all the very helpful Delta employees were sticking to the single "Have you tried checking in at the kiosk?" question/answer/party line. (Q - "Is this where we check in for Skywest?" A - "Have you tried checking in at the kiosk?") I was able to help Grandma get checked in at the kiosk, I tried getting her to take one bag as carry on so she didn't have to pay $25 for it, but she didn't want to deal with it.
The kiosk refused to acknowledge my Mom and Dad's existence. The baggage collection counter lady didn't want to acknowledge their existence, either. I assumed is was a taint from their association with me. We went back to the Delta ticket counter line, and after getting past the "Have you tried checking in at the kiosk?" question, they were directed to another line, where all they had was one employee at the counter, talking to some other dude. It appeared to be a shorter line, but it nearly turned out to almost not be a faster line. Eventually another employee came around, and asked us if we had tried checking in at the kiosk yet. My Dad's reply was "Yes, we are frustrated and disgusted now." When she got around to looking up their reservation, she was very clear to say "I don't see anything wrong with your reservation here", implying my parents had done something wrong trying to check in. (See? This is where a future fee will be assessed. "The airline has decided that you are too stupid to check in on your own." $25.)
I hear there was more hijinks the rest of the trip home. Their flight was delayed a long time. Their luggage didn't make it home. I will leave the rest of the details for them to describe, if they want to. We'll see what happens next month when Tara and I actually try to take a trip...
I've been looking at flights to Orlando for a couple of months, prices have been higher than I've been super happy about. Add that to the myriad of extra fees the airlines have been coming up with, and it can be very easy to get into trouble. Yesterday I bought our tickets on Southwest airlines. The price was about $30 more or so than I could have gotten, but they won't be charging us for things like the following possible fees:
- "Carry on medical equipment fee" - assessed for holding my Bi-Pap in my arms while traveling so it doesn't get damaged.
- "Sitting together fee" - For having the gall to purchase 2 tickets next to each other on a plane
- "Kitty Hawk Commemoration fee" - no explanation, just a fee. Like the "Safe Driver" fee I pay to register my car.
- "No Fly fee" - For every time they have to clear me to fly. Just a fee for people like me, who have problems getting checked in, but have no paid to get into the (recently reported comprimised, but then again maybe not) "Clear" system.
- "Baggage handling fee" - for when they start charging for all checked baggage. Did I hear an airline already started this?
- "Because We Can fee" - trust me, it's only a matter of time.
When we got to the airport, there was some confusion about "Northwest" and "Northwest operated by Skywest". There were no signs for Skywest, I dropped them off at terminal 1. While driving up to terminal 2, the Skywest signs finally showed up. I called my Mom's cell phone to let them know they were at thee wrong place, but her phone started ringing in the car. She had forgotten it. I drove around the airport to get to the parking to go in.
I met up with them, they had discovered the mistake as well, or were directed away by the Northwest people. When we got to the Delta/Skywest counters, all the very helpful Delta employees were sticking to the single "Have you tried checking in at the kiosk?" question/answer/party line. (Q - "Is this where we check in for Skywest?" A - "Have you tried checking in at the kiosk?") I was able to help Grandma get checked in at the kiosk, I tried getting her to take one bag as carry on so she didn't have to pay $25 for it, but she didn't want to deal with it.
The kiosk refused to acknowledge my Mom and Dad's existence. The baggage collection counter lady didn't want to acknowledge their existence, either. I assumed is was a taint from their association with me. We went back to the Delta ticket counter line, and after getting past the "Have you tried checking in at the kiosk?" question, they were directed to another line, where all they had was one employee at the counter, talking to some other dude. It appeared to be a shorter line, but it nearly turned out to almost not be a faster line. Eventually another employee came around, and asked us if we had tried checking in at the kiosk yet. My Dad's reply was "Yes, we are frustrated and disgusted now." When she got around to looking up their reservation, she was very clear to say "I don't see anything wrong with your reservation here", implying my parents had done something wrong trying to check in. (See? This is where a future fee will be assessed. "The airline has decided that you are too stupid to check in on your own." $25.)
I hear there was more hijinks the rest of the trip home. Their flight was delayed a long time. Their luggage didn't make it home. I will leave the rest of the details for them to describe, if they want to. We'll see what happens next month when Tara and I actually try to take a trip...
Monday, August 04, 2008
It Lives!
Drew came over this morning to get me motivated to fix the truck. (He wanted to help so that Steve and Missy didn't rent a Uhaul for their relatively small apartment of stuff this weekend when they move.)
Drew looked at fuses, but didn't get anywhere because the ignition fuse was covered over. I figure it's a plot to sell more of them. We fiddled with the cables to the starter for a little bit until the point that I nearly shocked myself.
After that, we disconnected the battery and took the starter off. It was heavier than it looked, but came out very easily. At least easily when there were 3 or 4 hands doing it. Having the truck lifted off the ground would have made it even easier, and if I had been doing it all by myself, I would have underestimated the weight of the starter, and likely would have tore some cable letting the starter down off the truck. As it was, I held the thing while Drew disconnected the cables.
We took the starter down to AutoZone to get tested. It failed, of course. In a fine display of salemanship, the kid went back to the shelves, got the replacement starter, and put it on the tester to show that it worked. (It was kind of interesting to hear the starter fire up in that little machine.) The new starter cost $60, and we got it back in without incident.
The drivers side tire was a little low, and the truck was in desperate need of a washing from sitting under the tree so long. I took care of both of these things, the truck is ready to roll again... (Thanks Drew.)
Drew looked at fuses, but didn't get anywhere because the ignition fuse was covered over. I figure it's a plot to sell more of them. We fiddled with the cables to the starter for a little bit until the point that I nearly shocked myself.
After that, we disconnected the battery and took the starter off. It was heavier than it looked, but came out very easily. At least easily when there were 3 or 4 hands doing it. Having the truck lifted off the ground would have made it even easier, and if I had been doing it all by myself, I would have underestimated the weight of the starter, and likely would have tore some cable letting the starter down off the truck. As it was, I held the thing while Drew disconnected the cables.
We took the starter down to AutoZone to get tested. It failed, of course. In a fine display of salemanship, the kid went back to the shelves, got the replacement starter, and put it on the tester to show that it worked. (It was kind of interesting to hear the starter fire up in that little machine.) The new starter cost $60, and we got it back in without incident.
The drivers side tire was a little low, and the truck was in desperate need of a washing from sitting under the tree so long. I took care of both of these things, the truck is ready to roll again... (Thanks Drew.)
Crispy chicken tacos
This afternoon we watched a show where the guy was making a crispy chicken strip salad. It looked good, we fell asleep before the show was over. When I woke up, I was thinking about crispy fish tacos, and figured I would make crispy chicken tacos for dinner. They were pretty tasty. I planned to do what the guy on the show did, and make a breading with crushed tortilla chips, but the chicken strips we had were already breaded.
The recipe:
flour tortillas (we used the 'cook it yourself' tortillas from Costco)
breaded chicken strips - I was going to make a crushed tortilla breading, but the chicken strips we have from Maceys already had a breading on it, so I went with it
cole slaw
cucumber - cut into little spears
Fry breaded chicken strips until golden brown. Slice chicken rstrips into smaller pieces, long and skinny is ok. Holding tortilla in taco shape add chicken, then cucumbers, then coleslaw, and a little more chicken on top. This of course assumes that your flour tortilla is big enough to hold all that stuff.
The recipe:
flour tortillas (we used the 'cook it yourself' tortillas from Costco)
breaded chicken strips - I was going to make a crushed tortilla breading, but the chicken strips we have from Maceys already had a breading on it, so I went with it
cole slaw
cucumber - cut into little spears
Fry breaded chicken strips until golden brown. Slice chicken rstrips into smaller pieces, long and skinny is ok. Holding tortilla in taco shape add chicken, then cucumbers, then coleslaw, and a little more chicken on top. This of course assumes that your flour tortilla is big enough to hold all that stuff.
Sunday, August 03, 2008
Catching up to current
Only 2 blog posts this week? That is because I have been very, very lazy.
My parents and grandma are in town this week. They came for Adam's baby blessing. (More on that soon.) The Stake President had back surgery Wednesday afternoon, which afforded me all the time in the world to go up to the airport and get them. I took Adam and Ruth. Traffic wasn't too bad, but there is still no way I would commute to work for a living.
I have been trying to keep the President's schedule cleared so he has recoup time. One of the wards keeps calling with stuff. They haven't gotten all that far. Now I have someone that needs an interview next Sunday between the hours of 11am and 1pm. I say good luck to him at this point...
The truck has been not starting for a good 2 weeks now. Last week Chad got under there, he had a similar model/year truck before and had starter problems. He thought the starter cables were a little loose, and suggested pulling them off, cleaning them up, and tightening them down really well. We also tried tapping the thing just in case the solenoid was stuck open and the tapping loosened things up. The truck almost nearly sort of tried starting up while we were fiddling with it. A couple of days ago, I tried tapping less gently, which didn't seem to help all that much, except we got 2 more of the "almost nearly sort of" action out of the thing. (Drew said he is coming tomorrow morning to help work on it so that Missy and Steve can move on Saturday without having to rent a Uhaul. This would also ensure Adam has something to drive round when he is out here next month.)
Anson was over here the other day, Drew stopped by. Anson kept asking Drew if he had shot any bad guys. I guess this is a daily question. Drew doesn't seem to like the question all that much, I think it is hilarious. I think I will start asking Drew that question every once in a while. I'm pretty sure none of the girls really knows for sure what I do all day, and I don't know what questions they would ask if they did. At least they are generally happy to see me when I get home.
Kate is headed into a 2nd/3rd grade mixed class. There are mixed feelings about this. I am a little concerned that she is less than a month away from 9 right now, and there will be 7 year olds in the class. I plan to go have a little chat with the principal of the school, if for no other reason that the principle of the thing. Last year they asked us to move Mary to morning from afternoon kindergarten, I just want to establish the fact that we are in charge of things, they are not, really. We will see how things go.
We blessed Adam today. You spend 6, 7, 8 months or so thinking about what you want to say in a baby blessing, then you get there, and end up saying two of those things, the rest just comes in the moment. I'm not sure I remember all of what I said this morning. Tara, Mom, and Grandma all seem to indicate it was a good blessing, I guess I will leave that as the measuring stick. We didn't take any pictures. I fully intended to cooperate, Grandma Oaks wanted to get a picture in, but I wanted to wait for Tara to be ready so I didn't have to go through it twice. Time got away from us, and we didn't get any pictures in. We will have to stage a picture in the next few days so Adam doesn't get a complex when he is older. (Especially since he has a different blessing outfit that his sisters had...)
After church, we had a little luncheon. We still have turkey, potato salad, chips, cookies, brownies, and cupcakes left over. Come over and have some.
Kongregate.com released an update to a game. I have been trying to figure it out. Drew also talked me into signing up for a Facebook account. Facebook is kind of interesting. People you hadn't talked to in years show up there and find you fairly quickly. There are a couple of pending ones that I am not exactly sure I know, I'm trying to figure that out. They also have a dumb little game that I have been playing, trying to catch up to Drew, Amy, and Adam.
We started getting tomatoes out of the garden yesterday, I also picked one today. In about a week we will be filthy with them around here. Same with the green beans. The peppers, onions, squash, and zucchini all have a way to go. (The pheasant set some of them back a ways.)
Yesterday I did something like a dozen loads of laundry.
It's about time to get serious about trying to sell the minivan, I guess.
I will try to be less lazy about this blog in the next week.
My parents and grandma are in town this week. They came for Adam's baby blessing. (More on that soon.) The Stake President had back surgery Wednesday afternoon, which afforded me all the time in the world to go up to the airport and get them. I took Adam and Ruth. Traffic wasn't too bad, but there is still no way I would commute to work for a living.
I have been trying to keep the President's schedule cleared so he has recoup time. One of the wards keeps calling with stuff. They haven't gotten all that far. Now I have someone that needs an interview next Sunday between the hours of 11am and 1pm. I say good luck to him at this point...
The truck has been not starting for a good 2 weeks now. Last week Chad got under there, he had a similar model/year truck before and had starter problems. He thought the starter cables were a little loose, and suggested pulling them off, cleaning them up, and tightening them down really well. We also tried tapping the thing just in case the solenoid was stuck open and the tapping loosened things up. The truck almost nearly sort of tried starting up while we were fiddling with it. A couple of days ago, I tried tapping less gently, which didn't seem to help all that much, except we got 2 more of the "almost nearly sort of" action out of the thing. (Drew said he is coming tomorrow morning to help work on it so that Missy and Steve can move on Saturday without having to rent a Uhaul. This would also ensure Adam has something to drive round when he is out here next month.)
Anson was over here the other day, Drew stopped by. Anson kept asking Drew if he had shot any bad guys. I guess this is a daily question. Drew doesn't seem to like the question all that much, I think it is hilarious. I think I will start asking Drew that question every once in a while. I'm pretty sure none of the girls really knows for sure what I do all day, and I don't know what questions they would ask if they did. At least they are generally happy to see me when I get home.
Kate is headed into a 2nd/3rd grade mixed class. There are mixed feelings about this. I am a little concerned that she is less than a month away from 9 right now, and there will be 7 year olds in the class. I plan to go have a little chat with the principal of the school, if for no other reason that the principle of the thing. Last year they asked us to move Mary to morning from afternoon kindergarten, I just want to establish the fact that we are in charge of things, they are not, really. We will see how things go.
We blessed Adam today. You spend 6, 7, 8 months or so thinking about what you want to say in a baby blessing, then you get there, and end up saying two of those things, the rest just comes in the moment. I'm not sure I remember all of what I said this morning. Tara, Mom, and Grandma all seem to indicate it was a good blessing, I guess I will leave that as the measuring stick. We didn't take any pictures. I fully intended to cooperate, Grandma Oaks wanted to get a picture in, but I wanted to wait for Tara to be ready so I didn't have to go through it twice. Time got away from us, and we didn't get any pictures in. We will have to stage a picture in the next few days so Adam doesn't get a complex when he is older. (Especially since he has a different blessing outfit that his sisters had...)
After church, we had a little luncheon. We still have turkey, potato salad, chips, cookies, brownies, and cupcakes left over. Come over and have some.
Kongregate.com released an update to a game. I have been trying to figure it out. Drew also talked me into signing up for a Facebook account. Facebook is kind of interesting. People you hadn't talked to in years show up there and find you fairly quickly. There are a couple of pending ones that I am not exactly sure I know, I'm trying to figure that out. They also have a dumb little game that I have been playing, trying to catch up to Drew, Amy, and Adam.
We started getting tomatoes out of the garden yesterday, I also picked one today. In about a week we will be filthy with them around here. Same with the green beans. The peppers, onions, squash, and zucchini all have a way to go. (The pheasant set some of them back a ways.)
Yesterday I did something like a dozen loads of laundry.
It's about time to get serious about trying to sell the minivan, I guess.
I will try to be less lazy about this blog in the next week.
Friday, August 01, 2008
Really cool technology note of the day
They have yet to send us the owners manual for our DVR. They have left me to discover features one at a time. This is not necessarily a complaint. I just discovered a new feature. I can pause live running TV. I just hit pause, and come back to it, where I can resume where I was. The DVR records at most the last hour of the current channel. (Change the channel and start from zero.) Miss what they just said in a show? Hit rewind. Phone ringing? Hit pause. I like it.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Visiting Seven Peaks
Kate was the big winner in the "5 Things" contest for a trip to Seven Peaks. I took the day off work today and took her over there. We ended up staying 4 hours. My pass came gratis from Tom, Kate's came from the city library summer reading program. We got there just as the place opened, I took Kate over to the lazy river first, she took a round across the thing walking along holding the side.
A little bit later, Tom saw us and went and got us a double raft. We used the raft in the wave poll, the lazy river a couple of times, and we went down one big slide with it. The slide kind of scared Kate, and she didn't want to do any more slides after that.
Kate enjoyed the kiddie pool because she could wade around and slide down the slides, and still had the option of standing up out of the water. She also liked the wave pool when they finally decided to start the waves for the day. Her favorite ended up being the lazy river. She wasn't too sure at first, but at the end, we ended up going around a few more times before it was time to go.
We lost our raft at 2pm when we went to take a bathroom break. We came back and someone had fingered the thing. Having not actually paid for it, we went on our merry way... Kate ended up a little bit sunburned on her knees and face. I ended up a lot sunburned on the tops of my feet and a little up my legs.
If one of the younger girls go, I think I will pick up one of the park's free life preservers, and forgo a raft.
A little bit later, Tom saw us and went and got us a double raft. We used the raft in the wave poll, the lazy river a couple of times, and we went down one big slide with it. The slide kind of scared Kate, and she didn't want to do any more slides after that.
Kate enjoyed the kiddie pool because she could wade around and slide down the slides, and still had the option of standing up out of the water. She also liked the wave pool when they finally decided to start the waves for the day. Her favorite ended up being the lazy river. She wasn't too sure at first, but at the end, we ended up going around a few more times before it was time to go.
We lost our raft at 2pm when we went to take a bathroom break. We came back and someone had fingered the thing. Having not actually paid for it, we went on our merry way... Kate ended up a little bit sunburned on her knees and face. I ended up a lot sunburned on the tops of my feet and a little up my legs.
If one of the younger girls go, I think I will pick up one of the park's free life preservers, and forgo a raft.
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Memory "tag"
Here are the memory tag rules:
1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember!
2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. It's actually pretty funny to see the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you're playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you.Thanks!
My trail of destruction so far:
MommaPayne
Yames
1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember!
2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. It's actually pretty funny to see the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you're playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you.Thanks!
My trail of destruction so far:
MommaPayne
Yames
Easily motivated, sometimes.
Kate is on target to finish out her 150 goal for the "5 things" contest, barring rain, we will head over to Seven Peaks in a couple of days. The other girls are far enough behind that I don't think Kate will let them catch up if they tried.
Tonight Emma was out of her room at 9:45. I asked her why she was out of bed, she didn't have a good excuse. Tara was at a meeting, I told Emma I would give her 10 sets of 5 if she was completely asleep by the time Tara got home. Emma thought about it for a second, then ran to her bed. When I went in to check on her a little bit later, she was out cold...
Tonight Emma was out of her room at 9:45. I asked her why she was out of bed, she didn't have a good excuse. Tara was at a meeting, I told Emma I would give her 10 sets of 5 if she was completely asleep by the time Tara got home. Emma thought about it for a second, then ran to her bed. When I went in to check on her a little bit later, she was out cold...
Dinner is my favorite meal of the day
Tonight we had Drew, Kaylyn, and crew over for dinner. Steve was also here. In the middle of Priesthood meeting this morning, a number of servers turned up down, by the time I got home, the number was up around 100...
I looked at the problem for a while, until it was clear that I had nothing else of value to add to the discussion with the network engineers, and had to wait for them to figure out what was going on. The only thing I could do was disable the notification in the monitoring that sends me text messages about servers.
Having a full head of steam and no where to relieve the pressure, I took a short nap. When I woke up from the nap, I decided that I wanted ravioli for dinner. I have no idea where that came from. Maybe I was dreaming about that restaurant Rob took Jess and I to.
I ended up making a pasta that was about a third whole wheat flour, and a pretty good meat filing for the ravioli. I guess I should have either done a little less wheat flour, or added some other flavor to the pasta, because the wheat taste overpowered the filling taste quite a bit. I had plenty of sauce, so I don't think it matter all that much, but next time maybe I will try some other flavor. Maybe "chicken wing ravioli".
I say next time as if it will be any time soon. Home made pasta takes a long time to make, at least compared to just pulling it out of the package already to go. I don't know how people that do it all the time find enough time in the day.
Anyway, I thought it was alright, especially when you take into consideration that it was labeled "Johnny's first ravioli." I discovered today that the past couple of trips to Costco failed to include the purchase of mass quantities of vegetables. I had to call Drew to get them to bring a couple of cans of green beans.
Drew also brought a fruit filled cake thing. It was good, but I worry about the sweetness factor, I had a small piece and had to leave it at that.
I looked at the problem for a while, until it was clear that I had nothing else of value to add to the discussion with the network engineers, and had to wait for them to figure out what was going on. The only thing I could do was disable the notification in the monitoring that sends me text messages about servers.
Having a full head of steam and no where to relieve the pressure, I took a short nap. When I woke up from the nap, I decided that I wanted ravioli for dinner. I have no idea where that came from. Maybe I was dreaming about that restaurant Rob took Jess and I to.
I ended up making a pasta that was about a third whole wheat flour, and a pretty good meat filing for the ravioli. I guess I should have either done a little less wheat flour, or added some other flavor to the pasta, because the wheat taste overpowered the filling taste quite a bit. I had plenty of sauce, so I don't think it matter all that much, but next time maybe I will try some other flavor. Maybe "chicken wing ravioli".
I say next time as if it will be any time soon. Home made pasta takes a long time to make, at least compared to just pulling it out of the package already to go. I don't know how people that do it all the time find enough time in the day.
Anyway, I thought it was alright, especially when you take into consideration that it was labeled "Johnny's first ravioli." I discovered today that the past couple of trips to Costco failed to include the purchase of mass quantities of vegetables. I had to call Drew to get them to bring a couple of cans of green beans.
Drew also brought a fruit filled cake thing. It was good, but I worry about the sweetness factor, I had a small piece and had to leave it at that.
Saturday, July 26, 2008
It was a Dark and Stormy night...
We had a fairly aggressive storm blow through tonight, we were up at Tara's parents house, the neighborhood up there was planning to light off mass quantities of fireworks. The storm blew in and drenched everything.
Well into the storm, one of the squatters from our backyard (AKA Missy) called to say a tree blew down in the back yard from the storm. She said it was raining so hard that she didn't know what kind of damage there was. Since we weren't going to have any fireworks popping off up there, we went home to check out the damage.
It looked pretty impressive, at least at first glance. Steve and I took the thing down and cut it up. At least from the sight of things in the dark of the night, it looks like the only real damage was to the gutter. We were pretty fortunate. I could have easily tore up the roof, tore siding off the house, or knocked down a power line. It looks like none of that happened, but I did step in a little something special from Missy's dog, the one thing I didn't want to happen with the dog visiting back there...
Well into the storm, one of the squatters from our backyard (AKA Missy) called to say a tree blew down in the back yard from the storm. She said it was raining so hard that she didn't know what kind of damage there was. Since we weren't going to have any fireworks popping off up there, we went home to check out the damage.
It looked pretty impressive, at least at first glance. Steve and I took the thing down and cut it up. At least from the sight of things in the dark of the night, it looks like the only real damage was to the gutter. We were pretty fortunate. I could have easily tore up the roof, tore siding off the house, or knocked down a power line. It looks like none of that happened, but I did step in a little something special from Missy's dog, the one thing I didn't want to happen with the dog visiting back there...
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Independent kids
Our kids are fairly independent. They like to make their own breakfast. I drew the line the other day when Emma was teaching Ruth to make toast on her own. I got in there before we ended up with a knife in the toaster or anything like that.
It can be pretty bad. Ruth wants to use the microwave on her own. Emma already uses the microwave on her own. Ruth is teaching herself to potty train. (This part isn't so bad, really.)
Hard to say how far this could go. We just kind of have to keep on eye on these kids.
They are good kids, at least...
It can be pretty bad. Ruth wants to use the microwave on her own. Emma already uses the microwave on her own. Ruth is teaching herself to potty train. (This part isn't so bad, really.)
Hard to say how far this could go. We just kind of have to keep on eye on these kids.
They are good kids, at least...
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