It just gets better and better.

This morning Marion ran to the church to help distribute the Fast Offering envelopes. The Bishop and second counselor are out of town. I guess the other counselor forgot, because no one was there with a key to the clerks office.

When Marion came home, he noticed a water leak out by the front door. He asked if he could turn the water off. I was trying to get the dishes done and was considering taking a shower and going to just sacrament meeting, but I figured he better do what needed to be done to stop the leak. He tried to fix it, but as plumbing is wont to do, it broke worse. (Topic for discussion: Plumbing, Tool of the Devil, Yes or No?) So he came inside and made a few calls to get YM stuff delegated at church. This was hard as many young men leaders were working. He finally found someone. And then left to go to home depot to get the needed part. Think ten oxen in the mire. Major emergency, if we have no water.

A minute later he came back and said the battery in his van was dead. I stared at him dumb founded. Why, I don't know, I should be expecting these things by now. So he took my car instead. Miraculously, it was not out of gas.

He's back the part is fixed so the water can be on in the house, but the sprinklers will need more work. Low, low, low on the priority list.

So basically, I am on the edge of my seat in suspense. What will happen next? Will our house burn to the ground or just be hit by lightening?

I swear you could not write this stuff. Television producers would reject this script as completely unrealistic and implausible.

No one in this house is going to church. Oh well maybe next week.

Now you see 'em, now you don't

Saturday night I was shopping at Smith's with Diana. This of course was kind of bad in that I went in to buy milk and ended up with a cart full of stuff that cost $75. But as we were waiting in the check out line a blog worthy incident happened. The two people in front of us had a little girl with them. It looked like a mom and a grandma and the little girl was about two or three. One of the shelves of candy had been removed from the aisle. This made a cool entrance to a cave behind the candy shelf that was still there. While the mom and grandma were looking the other way, the little girl did what any small child would do. She walked behind the shelf into the small dark space, completely out of sight. If I hadn't watched her do it, I wouldn't have known where she went either. When the grandma looked around, you could see the panic in her eyes. Where could the little girl be, she had just been there seconds ago. I hurried to inform her where the little girl had gone. The grandma was visibly relieved. We laughed about how easy it is to loose little kids that age. I then made Diana pose for the picture to go with the story.