Two Days

It is that time. The kids will be home in two days.  Well, technically we are now less than two days but it is currently Sunday and their plane lands at 7:30 in the morning on Tuesday.  That is wonderful.  Between now and then I will be in a family meeting, a system check at the restaurant, driving across the desert to Southern California, hopefully hitting the beach for a bit, sleeping at a hotel (just booked and very thankful as I cannot handle sleeping in the car in the parking garage at the airport again, miserable) and then over to the airport to pick them up. At some point in there I will need to eat and whatever.  It should be a busy 30+ hours but it will be a good 30+ hours.  I am excited to have the kids come home.  I certainly didn't accomplish everything I wanted to for them here around the house but we got a pretty good jump on things.  I am sure they will be excited for some of the changes and hopefully all of them. 

Surprise Party

Today Jim came to town and he, Dave, mom and I headed up to Springville to participate in a surprise party for Jay who turns 40 tomorrow.  We enjoyed a fine meal of bbq burgers. Laura and Nigel also came down and brought their Snow cone machine and we all enjoyed snow cones. Then Jay, Jim, Nigel, Dave and I went up the canyon and played 9 holes of golf. It was a great course and I believe we should go and play it again.  Anyhow, happy birthday Jay!

Roofing

I finally got to laying asphalt shingles on my little shed thing. It was hot and I was dripping sweat but it was good to be up there. It is not easy to kneel on hot roofing felt and it was definitely hot today.  Unfortunately I under estimated the amount of shingles so I didn't get finished. I probably won't be back up there until next week. I'm sure I'll have a couple of boys that will want to be up there with me. That will be good, I'll have to put them to work.  I am certain there are some details I have missed with this little project but hopefully it will do the job just fine. 

Made a run to the temple this afternoon. I am grateful to be able to go and serve there. I want to keep going as much as possible when the kids come home. It would be good to take them with me. Need to start finding names to take.

Saw the new Bourne movie tonight. Loved it. That is one of my favorite series.

Carrot Cake

Had a gal come into the shop today and asked if we had our gluten free carrot cake. Christa let her know we did not and then she went on about how it was her daughters birthday, how she is gluten intolerant and how she loves our carrot cake. She wanted to know when we would have more and Christa turned to me. I didn't commit to anything and when she kept pressing I said we could take down her Info and call her when we had more.  She then dropped that her daughter is a former employee. I had to ask who. Kayla. Well I went and got everything I needed, put off a few other things and knocked out a batch of gluten free carrot cake. One of our employees asked what I was making and when I told her she said people say it is the best thing we make. It is good and people love it but I don't know if it is the best. It does fill the kitchen with an amazing aroma when it bakes. 

Night Ride

I took a ride tonight around the East bench trail. I think that's the name of the trail. It was a great ride. I was on my way over to the trail riding up main when I saw something slowly flying across the sky. It was a meteor shower of sorts. I continued on and hit the trail. It was excellent. I stopped riding the trail at 200 South and then turned towards home. I will do it again and carry on further down the trail. It makes for a good bike ride.

My Toes!

Working on wrapping up several projects at the moment. It was a busy day. Made a run out to the dump this morning. Apparently something I put on the trailer housed wasps because I stirred up the nest. That made tying down the load eventful.  If the neighbors were watching they enjoyed a few highlight worthy dance moves on my part as I was trying to avoid wasps. They were pretty fired up but somehow I managed.  The dump was the dump. It smelled wonderful as it always does.  I suppose I should refer to the dump by its proper name, the landfill. 

With the trailer empty I ran over to the home depot to pick up a few items I needed to finish up some things.  I have roofing to do, a shelf to cut and install, a bed board to cut, paint and install, some concrete to pour, and we still need to finish the backsplashes on the counters. There is plenty to do.  I got the shelf and bed board cut and installed. Jack's bed is done and heald me up with no problem so I think it will work great. 

It was looking as if we could get hit by a thunderstorm so I was trying to cover the bags of concrete I had purchased. While doing so I had a board slip and it dropped a couple of feet and chopped my toes.  It didn't chop them off, just came down on them in a chopping manner. Holy cow, that hurt like crazy. It gave me a healthy respect for steel toed shoes. My toes are hurting right now just thinking about it.

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Painting

I went about painting the bed I have built for Jack today. I masked everything off and sanded everything and then picked up this cool oil rubbed bronze metallic paint. I thought it would give us a steam engine feel for this train inspired room.  It wasn't the easiest paint job but hopefully i44t will do the trick.  I was going to move down the mattress board and matters later only to find the board didn't fit the space i constructed for the mattress. I then realized that I had measured incorrectly and suddenly I got quite nervous that my efforts were in vain and I would have to make serious adjustments.  Luckily the mattress is a half an inch smaller than the space.  Breathe easy my friends. All is well.