Our weekend:

Our water line has had a gradually worsening leak for several years & Wednesday it finally showed up in the middle of the driveway. So we’ve been turning our water on & off at the road since then. Johnny rented a ditch witch & dug almost 200′ this weekend. He is bruised & sore from wrestling that thing through rocks & hard end-of-summer ground. I helped fill the ditch back in after we laid the line & that was plenty hard enough for my tender constitution. I woke up with my arms aching this morning. If you have an old water line, I STRONGLY encourage you to replace it. Like, now. Completely disgusting what we were washing our clothes & bodies in…and cooking with *full body shudder*

Paid $6.79 for a gallon of milk at White Star. I don’t know if it’s been that high for some time, but I hadn’t noticed it. I guess because when it’s with the rest of my groceries I just don’t pay attention.

I started a 900+ page novel set in New Orleans. (The Witching Hour by Anne Rice, if you’re curious, & yes, it’s wonderful)

I cooked a pork roast, corn pudding, green beans, mashed potatoes, deviled eggs, rolls, & sweet tea for the laborers (Johnny & his two friends, including Scott the Plumber) for helping get us back in the land of People With Running Water.

Released the squirrels we rehabilitated. They fell out of a tree on the other side of the fence almost two months ago & Johnny has raised them up. I couldn’t tell him no, but I did tell him to get them off the dining room table pretty quick.

I only ordered one new pair of leggings.

Watched Tennessee get the snot beat out of them. Cried a little.

Was going to fix homemade biscuits this morning (because we’re out of the frozen type) to go with sausage & eggs, but turns out, we’re out of sausage, too.

And bacon.

So we had egg sandwiches & oatmeal…which is a combination I don’t recommend.

Uncle Dale is still recovering in the hospital, but is doing great. The ballgame didn’t set him back, & I think they’re talking about sending him home tomorrow.

I’m currently doing laundry that has piled up all week. What a blessing to be able to do it!

It took a lot of beers & a lot of cussin’ to get through this weekend. I’m exhausted.

Furthermore, I do not trust your book reviews when the one, two, & three star ones have been mysteriously removed, even though you can see they used to exist. This was the case of three different books I looked at this weekend. Just a little bonus Wheel of Random for you.

I think that’s all. I sure hope so.