This is a picture I took of Charlie today. Charlie and I are in charge of the house until Sunday evening. If the room looks strange it is because Debbie and Kent are remodeling the kitchen. You can look at their blog for the remodeling steps. Debbie, Kent and Erik flew to Salt Lake yesterday to visit Jennie, Mike and Sophie. They will be driving a car back for Erik to drive eventually.

It was an absolutely beautiful day today. It was nicer than yesterday. I guess we are supposed to have one more nice day. I went to Fred Meyer today to see if I could find a pair of pants I liked. I found some I liked but they do not have Women's Petites and all the pants are too long for me. I could not find any tops I liked either. So I guess I will go back to what I normally do; order them on-line from JC Penney. After I got back from Fred Meyer, I got my cart and walked to Safeway. I haven't walked that far for awhile and I could really feel it in my legs. I just love being out in the sunshine.

Another story--from when we lived in Bonney Lake. I am sure most of you kids will remember. We used to make our own Root Beer. You have to put it in bottles and cap it and let it ferment for about 5 days. After that you need to keep it in a cool place--but we didn't know that at the time--so we left the bottles on some shelves near our chimney. If you leave the Root Beer in a warm place after a couple of weeks or so , the pressure builds up and they explode.

OK, back to the chimney. Your dad had built a fireplace which was not really very good (he knew it wasn't) and he also built this big chimney which was not very good either. Your dad always worried that the chimney might fall down. Anyway, we had this big batch of Root Beer on the shelves by the chimney and they were probably there a good couple of weeks or more.

One night when we were all sound asleep, the bottles started exploding. You cannot imagine the sound they made. Your dad flew out of bed and said " the chimney is falling down". The chimney was fine but what a mess we had to clean up.

Charlie follows me around most of the day and I have to watch him all the time so he doesn't trip me. Now he has been sleeping on my bed for about 2 hours. I hate to make him get off but I'm not about to sleep with him.