Four Things

First Thing:  Isaac does not like the idea of a scorpion being in the house.  But to his dismay we have found at least two scorpion carcasses in our house since he has been here.  And when he was asked to remove one of the said carcasses he was a little nervous.  He got even more nervous when he realized the scorpion wasn't finished kicking the bucket.  He had a few slow arm movements left in him.  So when Isaac was scooping up the scorpion up just a sudden simple noise from me made him jump 10 feet into the air.  He hasn't jumped that high since . . . . . . . well, ever!

 

Second Thing:  Sampson Crockett was a beautiful baby boy born way too early.  He lived a very short time.  I wept at the thought of Jill and Jonathan losing that precious son.  I crocheted this little hat and blanket through my tears.  I hope they know how much we all grieve for them and with them.  Sampson is now waiting in Heaven for us all to join him. 

 

Third Thing:  McDonald's Monopoly is in full swing.  Of course, we almost have 3 or 4 monopolies.  But everyone else seems to be looking for the same pieces we are looking for.  Go Figure! We don't usually go to McDonalds - but this year we have a good reason to go.  We go to see our son, SCOTT, on the nation wide Monopoly poster that is on display in every McDonalds restaurant.  It is awesome.  Our now famous son has taken to lounging around in his soccer attire and asking the people around him to "do him a favor" or "get him a drink" or "let him have the recliner" or whatever.  Do you think a little attention has gone to his head?  Quite Possibly.

 

 

Fourth Thing:  Finally, my microwave is still not working.  Doug will order the part we need "very soon".  I am waiting patiently for the - tortoise to finish the race (see earlier post) .  But I am not holding my breath.  I definitely would expire before the finish. 

Microwave

I am wondering, does anyone remember how to fix meals without the use of a microwave?  Our lovely microwave bit the dust.  It gave a bogus error code - failed humidity sensor.  Whatever that is it has made our microwave just ornamental. 

My husband has now turned into an appliance repair man.  He found the schematics, researched how to dismantle the microwave to get to the dead part, figured out how to dis-mount the microwave, got the part out, found a place in town to buy the part (for $10 more), found some online sites to buy the part (less money but longer repair wait time), and is moving forward to finish the project. 

Maybe this will be his "job" after he retires.  He really likes doing things like this.  He'd be more of a tortoise than a hare - but he'd finish the job.  Either way I am hoping my microwave is fixed pretty soon. 

Registration

Does anyone have any doubt as to what the instructions were for the Toyota registration tag?  It seems pretty clear to me. 

But this morning while driving into the garage I noticed that the Toyota that Isaac has care and custody of while studying at BYU-i didn't have a current registration tag on it.  The tag said June 12.  Wait a minute - isn't this October 2012 right now?  Something isn't right here.  So I found the spare key - Isaac was still in sleepy land.  Let myself into the car.  Opened the jockey box.  Found the old registration and old insurance information on top.  I dug deeper and found the current registration and tag nicely tucked on the bottom of the stack.  I wonder if he ever even saw these instructions.  Needless to say I remedied the situation.  So now he is street legal for another year - wait only 9 months now. 

He's really lucky he didn't get pulled over with the expired registration tag and therefore have another reason to complain about the Rexburg Police, or the Kanab Police, or the Springville Police, or the Page Police, or the Phoenix Police, or the Peoria Police . . . . well you get the picture. 

We're probably going to have a little talk about car registration tags when Isaac gets up this morning. 

**Even though the sticker is off in this picture, it was definitely on the paper when I found it in the jockey box.  Somehow the original picture disappeared when I moved it from the camera to the computer.