Yeah

They came at 7:20; took the old fridge out; 

the new one in and left by 8:20 PM

Photo by DeRay

   They came at 7:20 last night to deliver the new fridge. They were supposed to come the day before but too late we found out they had the wrong name, the wrong phone number, and when they tried to charge it on the credit card it had a fraud alert. The reason it had a fraud alert was because after DeRay charged it on the credit card on Monday, we got a call from American Express saying someone in Nevada was charging $200 for play tickets; someone in New Hampshire was charging $15 at a hardware store; and someone at Lowe's charged $10. The only thing we've purchased at Lowe's in the past few years was the fridge on Monday. So they cancelled the credit card and are sending a new one. I think the clerk was a crook but DeRay thinks his account was hacked. So why wasn't the clerk to work last night when DeRay went down to see why they didn't deliver the fridge? 
    Why do we need a new fridge in the basement? The other one was only four years old. Because while I was in Cedar City with my sisters, DeRay decided to surprise me and put a latch on the freezer door that was always swinging open. While trying to move it out to work on it, he ruined the coils on the bottom with the hand truck. But we didn't know this until Amy came up on Sunday and said the fridge wasn't working - six days later.

  Ed and I went ahead and went to church while DeRay and Amy emptied the expired fridge. While they were transferring what they could salvage to the fridge upstairs, they noticed it was raining in the kitchen. By morning, Amy said there was a gallon of water in the middle of the kitchen floor. She mopped it up and we ignored it as we have a tendency to do in our old age. At 1 AM DeRay came up and asked if I'd help mop up the kitchen. "There's water everywhere." I had left the water on a dribble for Gnocchi, the cat, who loves a fresh drink of water from the tap and I forgot to turn it off. So now we know, it's the bathroom sink. DeRay still hasn't figured out how to solve the problem. It wasn't put together right when the plumber put in a new sink a year or two ago. We wash our hands in Ed's bathroom which greatly irritates him. He claims his bathroom is for him and guests only.
   And then DeRay discovered the small freezer out in the garage was turned off. When we came home from Cedar City, Verla's tire was low so I was trying to plug in the air pump and accidentally unplugged the fridge. Four days later we noticed.
   I'm not sure we're responsible home owners anymore.
   I haven't even been down to see the new fridge. I'm afraid the basement will be flooded.
   Now for the Good News: We smoked the thawed turkey. Delicious!

One More Day Part II

   Smack-dab in the middle of my sincere quest to clean up, we attended our grandson, Isaak’s, Eagle Court of Honor.

 The Eagles' Nest.  Proud Papa on left.

Grandpa furnished the pizza on the day they planted trees for the big Eagle Project.

That was on Sunday.

   Monday evening, a cloudburst with strong winds, hail, and torrents of rain  pounded us soundly.

   We marveled at the rainbow afterwards.

 According to Genesis, after Noah's flood God put the rainbow in the sky as the sign of His promise that He would never again destroy the earth with flood (Genesis 9:13–17):

I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth. And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.

 Did you know that Joseph Smith promised that the second coming of the Christ would not occur in any year in which a rainbow is seen?

   Until Amy sounded the alarm again, we did not know that muddy water was gushing into the basement from the window well.  At least it was clean water last time.  We didn’t quite have the carpet squares re-laid from our last flood.  Oh, about two weeks ago.

  Before going to bed, we watch the news:

May 20 2013 02:24 pm

MOORE, Okla. • A monstrous tornado at least a half-mile wide roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds up to 200 mph. At least 51 people were killed, including at least 20 children, and officials said the death toll was expected to rise.

The storm laid waste to scores of buildings in Moore, a community of 41,000 people about 10 miles south of the city. Block after block lay in ruins. Homes were crushed into piles of broken wood. Cars and trucks were left crumpled on the roadside. The National Weather Service issued an initial finding that the tornado was an EF-4 on the enhanced Fujita scale, the second most-powerful type of twister.

Tuesday update:

May 21 2013 06:15 am • Updated 2 hours ago

Moore, Okla. • Helmeted rescue workers raced Tuesday to complete the search for survivors and the dead in the Oklahoma City suburb where a mammoth tornado destroyed countless homes, cleared lots down to bare red earth and claimed 24 lives, including those of nine children.

Scientists concluded the storm was a rare and extraordinarily powerful type of twister known as an EF5, ranking it at the top of the scale used to measure tornado strength. Those twisters are capable of lifting reinforced buildings off the ground, hurling cars like missiles and stripping trees completely free of bark.

The death toll was revised downward from 51 after the state medical examiner said some victims may have been counted twice in the confusion.

   Our triumphs and troubles suddenly seemed insignificant.

Married 57 Years

DeRay and I make a perfect team:

He makes the messes and I clean them up.

Again I have a carpeted deck.

        I couldn’t face it last night.

Hearing the wet vac screeching in the basement

       as I came down the stairs,          

I went straight back up.

      Amy didn’t let me off that easily.

She came up to report:

       “It’s bad.”

DeRay was making water;

       standing right in front of the mechanism,

then just walked off without turning it off.

       By the time Amy discovered it,

the hallway, bathroom, fruitroom and bedroom

       were flooded royally.

DeRay was hosting a Sunday School meeting,

       (which he forgot about until they came.)

***EMERGENCY***

       If Amy hadn’t been here,

oh wow, we wouldn’t have noticed until morning.

       That would have been on a scale

comparable to our numerous other floods.

       Next morning, after I carried the carpet squares

out on the deck to dry, I look out:

       “DeRay!!! The sprinklers are running.

My clothes and carpets are getting soaked.”

       “Didn’t I turn it off after I watered my plants?"

"What was my name again?”

At least he didn’t leave his expensive

       Shape-up shoes at the gym;

Leave his purse on top of the car

       and drive off;

Or leave his precious camera

       on a bench at Rainbow Bridge.

Like I say:

       WE’RE A TEAM!!!!

While I’m snapping pictures,

I want to show off my new clothes pin bag.

 K’Leena made the last one.

I sent some shirts down for her to choose one

to cut up to make a bag.

The material was stretchy and

with the weight of the clothes pins

it eventually almost reached the ground.

Contorting around to reach deep

to get a clothes pin was about more than I could bear.

I made this one from a pillow case.

I use my machine so seldom,

I had to use the instruction book

to thread the bobbin and needle

and even turn it on.