My day...

Just so you know what you are missing Dad-

7:00 am Arrive at Church, shovel sidewalks
8:15 am Quick Bishopric meeting
9:00-12:00 Block Meetings
12:00-1:30pm Food Orders, Set Aparts, Count Tithing
2:00-3:30pm Directory of Members review
4:00- 5:15pm Summer Youth Pioneer Trek meeting
5:30-6:00pm HT visits our family
6:00-6:15pm Dinner
6:30-8:00pm Stake Fireside- Cell Phones, Morality
8:30-9:00pm DRC radio net

It wasn't as bad as looks. We got a lot accomplished today. We were asked to be a Ma and Pa for the stake handcart trek this summer, hence the extra meeting in the middle. We are a little worried about housing our kids for the five days during the trek but excited to spend time with the youth. We had a really good time 6 years ago on our trip to Nauvoo. Another lady said that being a Ma and Pa is like having a baby. After a few years you forget the pain and your ready to have another. Our stake will be creating our own adventure near Walden CO. They did it four years ago and said that it was a good experience. Time to start getting my feet in shape.

Brant

Porcelain Week

Slow Week Ahead

I'm sitting at the computer Googling; Attractions, Museums, Points of Interest, Etc., on the Southwest Washington coast. Mom and I have wanted to go back since we visited the Oregon coast a few years ago. We think we may go again during Spring Break in late March.

The weather is beautiful but still a little chilly. Naturally, the Jazz Festival starts on Wednesday so the weather report is sunny skies until Tuesday and then rain the rest of the week. Why should this year be any different than all the other years.

Friday night about 9:00 pm I got a call from the Moscow Institute that there was water in one of the mechanical rooms. I went up there and determined that it was coming up out of the floor drain. I also learned that they had had a dinner earlier that night. I guesses that the sewer was plugged somewhere. I called Roto-Rooter and together we "snaked" the line out about 120' and couldn't clear it. At 11:00 pm we decided to quit and try it again Saturday morning. I went in to clean up the mechanical room at 8:00 am and then he arrived about 9:30 am. We again snaked it about to about 130' with no results. So, he attached another 130' and away we went again. At about 230' the backed up water suddenly disappeared. At 230', that put the plug northwest across the institute lawn, across Deakin Street, then north up the sidewalk toward the SUB. For all I know it might just dump into Paradise Creek along 6th Street. Anyway, we got done at about noon. Great way to spend Friday evening and Saturday.

Enjoy the week.