Spring Cleaning and Catchup!!

WOW I had no idea it has been so long since posting...guess the whole idea is to do this frequently!!! But then we have been busy!!

The Houseful: We seem to have had a string of visitors lately!! Love it!!

Dave had a conference in SD in Feb and brought several of his PHD alumni with him for a great evening and home cooked meal. We had fun watching the curling on the Olympics. They created a whole new scoring system for the game!!

Carol had a bike race at Lake Morena end of Feb so came for Sat afternoon to dry out with friend Chris for dinner and evening and much appreciated WARM showers!

We went out to see the race the next day. Fortunately the rain had stopped but there were still some really flooded patches on the coarse...everyone finished muddy!!

The pic is her 2nd place finish!!

Sarah and kids have been here for a couple of weeks staying with her parents. Jason was finally able to join them last weekend. It has been great to see everyone. The kids are wonderful!! They had a great trip to the zoo and to Legoland. Seems as if Connor is a ride officianado..really likes roller coasters!!

Old Business:

1.We have a rooster!!!...yes one of Mario's chicks last summer turned into a full fledged-no pun intended-copy of his deceased dad!! We have named him Rocky in honer of his barred-rock heritage! He really is living up to the "cock-of-the-walk" colloquialism in our English language...struts all over and has his way with the hens...keeping order in the chicken hierarchy...BUT he has a long way to go when it comes to cockadoodledooing!! He sounds like a boy whose voice is changing ...all over the scale and never knowing what note will come out!! It's getting better though. And those of you who visit will be happy to know that unlike his predecessor he does NOT crow ALL night!!

2. We..Dad and I ...are resolved to go camping frequently this year!! As you will see we bought a popup trailer last fall. We have used it about 5 times since getting it and really enjoy the luxeries it contains...no more treking to the bathroom at 3am!! It even has room for guests!! It really is nice to leave on weekends...seems like there is always one more thing to do around home so you never really relax and Dad particularly needs that break. We figure the more we camp...the less each trip costs us...I think were down to about $1800 per weekend now!!! Pics from next trip in April!!

Old now New Business:

All you who know me realize what a procrastinator I am.

The ongoing PROJECT of cleaning out the family room really does need to get done.

But God has a plan!! (More like a kick in the .....)Yesterday our plumbing backed up and the drain to the sink in the laundry room and the toilet there flooded the laundry and about half of the family room. I had to take out everything including to the rug and move the piano to scrub and sanitize the floor. Not a preferred method of spring cleaning but incentive and effective none the less. So the rug has been thoroughly scrubbed -thanks to Dad, behind the piano dusted and vacuumed, the floors mopped and lots of boxes moved out!! I had already started paperwork because of taxes so this project just might get done this week!!