No Roof....

 No new roof today.

There has been rain everywhere EXCEPT

our house, so they are running behind.

Which means they will start on Tuesday.

But that's ok!

Anyhow.....

I had another extremely busy day today.

No post worthy stuff... just busy.

Kyle and I went shopping to get

the week's groceries.

I pulled 5 trays of bananas out of the freeze dryer...

And the electrician came to wire the

house so we can run our generator 

and keep the freezers, etc running 

in case of a hurricane...

And then we walked on the beach for an hour

before we had to come home so I could teach.

It was a beautiful day.

And a MUCH NEEDED respite.

And now?

It's 10:40 and time for bed.

New Roof!

 And so it starts!

There was a big ol' truck in our driveway this morning.

We weren't expecting anything until Wednesday.

He was delivering the underlayment.

His big boom was too tall to get under our low hanging power lines,

so Kyle had to get out there with our fancy line lifter.

(Ok, its a pvc pipe with a "U" on the top...)

The roof already looks good.

Don't get me started.

Anyhow, there it is... all ready for the shingles,

roll-off dumpster, and ROOFERS!

Exciting.

(kind of... lol)

Beau thinks so... (He blends into the house color!)

Excitement on the High Seas

 Ok, not actually the high seas.....

So.

Looks like a boat, with a dingy on fire behind it

And that's pretty much what it is.

And here is the story.....

An older gentleman was on his nice little cabin cruiser

this morning out on the river east of our little town.

A dingy / john boat approached his boat.

It was PIRATES!!!!!

They boarded his boat, and were holding him hostage.

The older gentlemen fought with them and

took quite a beating, but still managed to get away

and somehow caught their little boat on fire.

The police were alerted by all the smoke.

Our little town fire fighters stood there on

the edge of the river trying to figure out what to do.

None of our departments have a boat.

Nor does the town next door.

Or the one in the other direction!

Anyhow...

eventually the gentleman was rescued

and taken to the hospital,

and the two pirates were arrested and taken to jail.

WHAT????????

This is not Miami!

This is our little town!

(And seriously pirates... you are on a RIVER!

Where were you going to "run" to? Sheesh.

It's nearly 30 miles down the river to the ocean!)

(dumb, dumb, dumb...)

(The local Sheriff's deputy called Town Hall

today to tell the town manager the back story...)

Made for some fun lunch chatter.

Yup.

It's great to live and work in our sleepy little town.

CRAZY!

Weeeeeeeee!

 My company (Primerica) had their

annual convention in Atlanta last week.

And to celebrate, they lowered the price

to get started with the company by half!

Which means our classes are FULL!

I had over 30 students tonight.

But they come in and go out and come in and go out,..

their phone dies, or the wifi blinks, 

or ... who knows what is going on out there.

I just looked at my report for this evening.

I had ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN

people log in / out.

Hahahahaha,

(It was all the same people, but good grief!)

No wonder I was distracted!

Anyhow.

I got a hair cut today. 

I have six-year-old bangs.

Here's a terrible selfie to prove it!

Remember, its 10:00 at night.

And I'm old.

But there you go!

A current photo.

And now?

BED!!!!!

Night Launch!

 They launched a rocket at 8:44 pm!

We love those evening launches.

They are so much fun!

AND

Rod was home to watch it with us!

He had a zoom meeting at 7, so he came

home from work early.

After his meeting, we all jumped in

his pretty little truck and headed to the beach.

It was a little cloudy,

but we still got a good show!

My camera isn't great in low light situations.

But it was SO pretty to see the rocket

reflected in the ocean!

And of course, it was exactly the right time to see the

"jelly fish" when the humidity and the evening sun

make that big jelly fish blob around the rocket.

Our favorite thing!

Even after the rocket was gone,

the sky was still putting on a beautiful show.

It was a wonderful evening!

(And then home for some ham/pineapple pizza...

what's not to love?????)

Quick Update

 Just popping in quick to say HI!

Yesterday was a teaching day.

And then I had an RS Presidency meeting.

We went through a good percentage of

the sisters in the ward and tried to

figure out ministering companionships

and also assignments.

It went better than I thought it might,

but it is still not done.

Quite a daunting task!

We used the map that shows all the members.

Blew it up big on the big screen TV in the

Relief Society room.

But we kind of bounced around, so I'm sure we

missed some people...

Next we are going to take our list,

print it twice and cut them out.

Pink for companionships

and green for those being visited.

(I think... lol)

Anyhow.

We are meeting again tomorrow to see if we

can get this wrapped up.

And of course, there is also all the other stuff

to be done - a family had a car accident.

A sister got fired.

Flat tires (not mine... a member)

you know, the usual....

Oh!

And I made some cinnamon raisin bread.

It tasted good, but a little flat.

I think it needed more salt?

It's ok if you toast it and put butter on it.

The roses are doing well

and the banana tree is going CRAZY!!!!!

Another Beautiful Beach Day

 We sat on the beach for an hour or so

yesterday in the late afternoon.

There was NOBODY there.

It was awesome!

In fact, it was so good, we went again today!

I had to work at the Town until nearly 4:00.

As soon as I got home, we changed into

shorts and beach shirts and shoes and

headed east!

There was a cool big boat on the horizon.

Clearly not a cruise ship...

we squinted and squinted and then remembered

Kyle has an AWESOME camera on his phone.

Good picture, eh?

Looks like a tug boat?

Pushing a barge?

There is a name on the barge, but even his camera

wasn't good enough to be able to read it.

Looks like cranes on top, maybe,

Anyhow.

It was a beautiful and relaxing couple of hours.

And now we are home to let the cows into the back pasture

and the chickens out into the yard

and the dogs out to wherever they want to go.

And I'm making some "artisan cinnamon raisin bread". 

We'll see how it turns out... I'm kind of excited!

The tide was coming in.

My teeny tiny beach buddy.

I was experimenting with MY zoom lens.