Fall Fun

ENJOY!

Hysterical!

I bought a little bowl while in China (at Jordan's for those who know the shops around the White Swan area). Meighan usually uses it for snacks but tonight she found another use for it! She had us all (including her) laughing hysterically! Turn up your sound. We hope it makes you laugh like it did us.

I got the video to appear right here and finally got it to fit in the post area. The link is also below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zfV46JJRY0

Shocking the Well, Part 2

(The following post was written in a notebook but not actually posted on the blog until we received our referral because we didn’t tell our family that we were in process. We waited until we had the referral for our son before we published on the blog because we wanted to do this “covertly” and have it be a surprise to as many people as possible.)

The place where we ordered our UV Filter from said to do another shock chlorination to try to get rid of the rest of the coliforms SO, on Friday night, October 1, we took showers early and poured 2 more jugs of Clorox into the well. By Tuesday we probably could have tested again but since I only wanted to make one trip to the lab (hopefully only one more trip!) I waited until we received and installed the UV Filter.

We received the UV Filter on October 6 and Tony laid it all out so he knew what he had to do. The following night he installed it but when he turned the water back on, the main shut-off valve was leaking – a LOT! So, another trip to Home Depot to get a new shut-off valve and time installing it and he was finally done!

We were both tired of dealing with water!

I took a water sample before the UV Filter was installed (to see how much more good the 2nd shock chlorination did) and another the morning after. I was told the results would be emailed to me on Saturday even though they were “closed.” Well, I didn’t get the emails until Monday, the 11th. BOTH tests came back CLEAR! YIPPEE! That means the 2nd chlorination worked! And the UV Filter will keep it clean!

In the meantime, our social worker has called and set up our three appointments to do our home study! She will come to the house on October 13th, 19th and 28th. For some reason three visits are required. So the “water thing” delayed our home study for a month. This will leave 2 months to get our dossier to China this year – if that’s even still possible!

Before & After -- We're FINALLY Done Painting! (The House)

We've been trying to get the house painted all summer. Tony had to do some repairs to the sofit before we painted. We finally got to start painting on Labor Day weekend! We were able to get three sides painted with two coats in three days. I worked on part of the back side the following week and we finally finished the new house color on September 12. Then I started working on the trim. With the rain and my new jobs (childcare at church and a part-time work-from-home job that I'm almost done training for) I finally finished the trim yesterday! Yippee! Tony wants to do some repairs to the 2-car garage yet this fall and get it painted yet this fall, too! I don't mind painting and my guess is it will be quite easy to do since I won't have to get up on a high ladder. I will be able to do all of it myself if I have to.

BEFORE -- Notice the two-tone yellow.

AFTER -- The new color is called "Gypsy Moth" (like a cream color) and the trim is called "Toasted Wheat" (it's a medium brown). NO MORE YELLOW!