We Need A Vacation To Recover From Vacation!

This week we are on a staycation. We stay at home and get some things taken care of like our annual Dr. checkup, scheduling Handyman Connection to fix up some things around the house, and get some car repairs done.

We also are helping with our church FOCUS sports camp. (FOCUS stands for "Focus On Christ Using Sports). We are both assistant basketball coaches and are enjoying it. Here is a link to a video of day 1 at sports camep that gives you an idea of all the different sports and all the kids we have coming.

Monday, I had what I thought was a mole but was a actually a cyst on the back of my shoulder removed.  It made me nervous--it was big and ugly. Our doctor referred me to one of his colleagues who cut it out very easily and quickly.  We didn't get home though until 2:00 and we were both very hungry because we couldn't eat until after the doctor appointment.   

Tuesday, it rained most of the morning so all our sports camp had to go inside the building. We managed the best we could but it was near as fun as if we could have stayed outside. The rain finally stopped and we did get out for the last hour.

Tuesday night we had a huge thunderstorm that scared our dog, Abby, who joined us on the bed. She was very afraid because of all the thunder and lightening.  When our power went off, our carbon monixide detectors screeched loudly, stressing out the cats and me!  I heard voices outside and someone pounding on our door yelling if we were inside.  We said yes and he said there were wires down in the back so stay inside.  I noticed our car was gone!  Our Kia was parked behind our van and I thought perhaps they rolled it out of the drive to get to the wires or something.  Anyhow, I panicked and called the police.  Gerard was still sleeping and I didn't want to worry him.  They came right away, but as soon as I hung up, I remember that Gerard took our car to the repair shop.  I asked him then if they were keeping our car overnight and he said they were so I called the police back and apologized for the false alarm.  (I don't think too clearly when I'm tired and want to be sleeping.)

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What’s With The Sirius Radio—Not Playing Again?

Gerard likes to listen to music or talk shows about sports as he cleans but lately his Sirius radio is not working well. First of all, it is supposed to face north to get the signal so we placed in on our dining room table in front of our big window. It worked pretty good there for a long time, but lately, it kept losing the signal and now it won’t even go on! I’m thinking there might be a problem with the outlet. We had a big storm and our power went off two days in a row. Since then the radio has not been working so we moved it to a different outlet in the living room.

Now the radio is farther away from the window sitting on top of our heat surge fireplace with the antennae facing towards our dining room window. It worked beautifully the first day, but the next day, it kept going on and off searching for a signal. By the third day, Gerard got so fed up with it that he turned it off and put on one of the music channels on Direct TV.

We just had Handyman Connection in to fix other things and now I have to call them again. I am so spoiled with modern conveniences and technology. We take things for granted but don’t realize how much until something doesn’t work right. We are still waiting to hear from the place repairing our electric lawn mower. Every time something breaks or does not work right, I always think of dad and how he would be able to fix it for us if he were still here. I’ll never forget him!

The good news is that I called Handyman Connection back again and apparently when they fixed the string light in the basement, they goofed up something and that's what caused our other outlets to not work. Anyhow, there was no charge for the second trip to fix the outlets!

Do you have Sirius radio? If so, how is your reception? Do you use it in your car? If you need something fixed or some home improvement project that you don't want to tackle yourself, call Handyman Connection--they stand by their work.
(This is not a paid post--I wish it were!)

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