Items of little intereset

We had to be at the dentist office yesterday morning by 8:30 for the boys checkups. No cavaties, YEA!! Luke flipped off his bicycle on thursday while attempting an endo (a frontward wheelie) and smacked his 2 front buck teeth. They kinda stuck out from his thumb sucking that goes on incessantly, but no longer. They were nicely pushed back into place after the wreck. His teeth may die but they are baby teeth anyway.

Shortly after arriving home I told Austin to clean out his hamster cage. Cody Brown was starting to stink, and somehow he dropped the bottom part of the cage off the back deck and it shattered to pieces. Well Austin fell to pieces because he had used his birthday money to buy the neccessities for Cody, and now he was going to have to use his money to replace the cage. I felt so sorry for him, it was a hard lesson to learn and I wanted to just buy him the cage myself, but he had been careless and looking for a shortcut while cleaning the cage so I figured it was a learning experience for him. (yuck) We headed straight for the pet store to get another cage because Cody only had his little ball to run around in. The new cages were 31.97, but on his b-day she had sold it to him for 26.00, we told her what happened and asked if we could just order a bottom part since that was the only piece that got destroyed, but no such luck. Austin had resolved to just suck it up and do it, when she offered to sell it to him for $20. We were both so grateful, he thanked her for discounting it and I thanked her and told her that I was making him use his own money to pay for it to teach him a lesson and that she had made it easier for both of us.

For 2 days the cows on the farm behind us (we can't see them) have been mooing and bellowing like crazy. It is driving Nate and the boys crazy, me, I kinda like it. Nate said this morning that he was going to have to ride over there and see who was toturing the cows, because he can't figure out why they keep on and on mooing. It really is loud, we had to turn on the noise maker pretty loud to drown out the sound.

We are off to the old house to finish up some work over there. Blek! No serious interest in it yet. We are thinking of renting it to the first people that liked it, the ones that had originally owned it. They could rent to own for 6 to 12 months to get their finances in order, and then purchase it. If they decide they can't do it then we will put it back up for sale in the spring. We have a nice chunk of equity in that house and I would have rather had the money right now to put on the current house, but this may work out best for all involved. I really wanted them to have the house.