An Exciting Day!

Yesterday was the last day of school (8:00-9:30 is considered a day?) and to celebrate we decided to make rootbeer. We have a sign that says “Free Rootbeer BYOC” (bring your own cup) and all of the neighborhood kids come and hang out on our front lawn and we have a fun time chatting and drinking rootbeer. This year we had kids show up with their cups right after we added the dry ice. I had to send them away for a bit, but I was glad to see a little ‘business’ because it didn’t look like we’d get much with this going on in front of our house all day:

The city is putting irrigation water lines in and yesterday happened to be our day. But we had something exciting to watch (although noisy!). And to keep instep with our exciting day, they cut a power line in front of our house because it hadn’t been marked. So we got to watch them work a little longer. And of course, to keep instep with the exciting day, I had a loaf of corn bread baking in my bread machine during the power outage as a requirement assignment for a cooking class I’m taking. Needless to say it didn’t actually turn out that great and I get to do it again. (that’s exciting right?)

Anyway, we were able to get a few kids come for rootbeer. One neighbor doesn’t quite get the idea that it is free and wants to pay for it. My response? “Do you think I can drink all of this rootbeer by myself? No? Then you’ve got to help me.” It ends up being a pretty good deal for all of us!

The next exciting bit came later when Tess was looking out the back door saying doggie, doggie, doggie. I was a bit surprised she remembered having a dog because it’s been two months since we got rid of Vea. Soon however, Cache who was reading on the couch, sat up and said, “We have a dog in our back yard.” Sure enough. . .don’t know how it got there because the back yard is fenced and both gates were shut. But somehow it did. Thankfully it was a very friendly dog and Cache was able to go out and read the phone number on the tag. I called it and got the recording “If you know your party’s extension you can dial it now.” That was the end of the recording. So I called the police and they came to pick it up. Did you know that if you find a dog in your back yard you have to give your name, fingerprints, social security number and your birthday? I’m kidding. Just your name, address, phone number and birthday but I thought that was weird. The sad thing about this whole thing was Caleb, our animal lover, was at a party and missed the whole thing. He would have loved to play with a dog for an hour, even if it was ugly.

The last {oh so!} exciting thing that happened yesterday was I finished up the Primary Program and it wasn’t even June 1 (the due date). There will be a few minor additions and changes before it happens, but the bulk of the hard work is done. YAY!