I may have posted? Who knows?

I haven't figured out the photo uploading function. . . It can't be that hard cause EVERYONE else does it. . . Hmmmm.

Following our blessed* chimney fire on Christmas Eve things are getting back to normal. We took the opportunity to repaint and put new flooring down. I have even managed to talk Leigh out of the pool table and quite possibly the television bracketed to the wall!!! A livingroom again. What an idea.

*I call it blessed because thank goodness we didn't follow through on an idea we had to scoot up to Provo to see Troy and Heidi that day. We were here to smell it and call it in. They came (firemen) tore down part of the ceiling and pulled out the insulation that was smoking, hauled it out in to the driveway and put it out with water from the truck, then left when it was all done. However, nearly 12 hours later, when Thomas and Leigh returned to wrap up their afternoon's work of rewiring some romex that had burned through, another "hot spot" was detected, still smoldering. Once again the fire department was called. So, I think of that day as messy but blessed. Another reward of that event is that I'm all over getting rid of junk now.
For instance, since we could have lost EVERYTHING, I am able to let go of the church magazines we have been carting around since 1977!!!! Not that they are "junk" but they are so available on line that there is no need to hang on, you know what I mean? I did keep the May and November issues. . . .felt good about that, if we ever lose the power we at least have those to read!!