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Blowing bubbles at Aunt Kay K's
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Sunday found us still separated by about 1,000 miles.
Ina Sue got the children all up, dressed and ready for church.
They left for church at about the same time Tom and I were taking off
from Ft. Worth. Ina Sue had time after the service to grab a quick
bite of lunch for her and the children at Dad's then drive in to pick me
up at the airport. We were driving to Govan by 2:00. We got
a short rest in the afternoon then went to church for a song service in
the evening. |
Sucking her thumb while I read |
Monday was a lovely day weather-wise. Ina Sue had piles
and piles of laundry to do. I got a pretty panicked phone call
from her around 11:00 when she happened to go out to get something out
of our big chest freezer and found the food all thawed out. This
is our big outside freezer where we have about a hundred pounds of beef
& pork plus lots of other assorted goodies and veggies. I got her
calmed down enough to figure out that the problem rooted back to
Landon's little electrical experiment last Thursday. He had
happened to flip the same breaker that the outside freezer was on.
I told Ina Sue to just leave the freezer lid shut and I would come home
to help cleanup and assess the damages. |
Landon follows his sister's example. |
I got home around 12:00 and we started taking everything out of the
freezer and checking it. The power had been off for about 4 days
and the meat on the top was completely thawed. Thankfully, as we
dug deeper we found that everything below the top 12" seemed to still be
frozen pretty solid. We did end up frying out about 4lbs. of
sausage, throwing away a few containers of frozen fruit, and cooking up
a bag of shrimp for supper. Other than that we felt pretty good
about everything. Thank God! I went back in to work and the
rest of the day was fairly uneventful. Carolyn and Michaela
Heatwole spent the afternoon and evening here while their parents had an
evening out. I made us shrimp & grits for supper and everyone
seemed to really enjoy them. They got all anyhow. :) |
A deck party with Carolyn & Michaela |
I left early Tuesday morning to go up to Columbia for an
Alltel owner/manager meeting. It was a good, informative and
helpful day of sessions. I got back around 4:00 and came straight
home. Ina Sue spent the day finishing up the washing and ironing.
I grilled up a batch of chicken strips for us to use in salads after
supper. Then I went to church for a committee meeting on
electronic media. After the meeting was over I went back in to the
shop until about 2:00am. Tired and ready for bed. Wednesday
was very uneventful. Most of my day was spent on service calls.
Ina Sue made up a batch of granola and took care of the children.
Chicken strip salad and bread sticks for supper. A late supper and
relaxing evening. |
A game of Memory with the children. |
Another uneventful day on Thursday. Ina Sue spent the
day with odd jobs and babysitting. I spent the day at work then
came home and mowed yard for an hour or two. A delicious supper of
country fried ham, scalloped potatoes, zipper peas and salad. I went
to work at 8:00 on Friday. Ina Sue babysat Gilbert & Erica
Korver for the morning while she cleaned house. We had homemade
biscuits, chicken salad & carrots for supper along with dessert of
freshly baked blackberry pie. After supper I played a game of
memory with Carolina & Landon then we watched a video. "Treasures in the
Snow". |
Helping me plant Savannah's ginko tree. |
I had to work on Saturday so I headed off around 8:30.
I enjoy working sometimes on Saturday because I can focus entirely on
getting things done in the shop without too many phone call
interruptions. I got quite a bit of accounting work done today.
While I was at work Ina Sue trimmed the ivy on the back porch, picked up
sticks and cleaned up the porch. After I got home around 4:45, I
finished the mowing and cleaned the dead tomatoes out of the garden.
Grilled chicken wraps and salad for supper then a restful evening at
home. |
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