Tub and Carpet

We've had quite an experience this week with our tub and carpet. Last Friday we had a company come in to refinish our bathtub. The guy spilled paint on our downstairs carpet on the way in. He was so upset and didn't want to continue. Gma prevailed on him to get the job done. (I was out golfing at the time) He was sure we'd have to replace the carpet. We thought so too for a while. We worked a lot with spot removers, etc. and it did help but wasn't quite there. The company was great. They said they would do whatever was required. So yesterday they hired a professional carpet cleaner and he managed to remove the spot and clean the downstairs carpet. So we made out pretty well.The kid who spilled the paint at first offered to give us the tub free and supply a throw rug to cover the spot. We thought that was not too good an idea. Actually we could have come out ahead if we'd accepted that offer and had the cleaner in ourselves. But it all turned out very well.

Lemony Snicket

We were told at the public library that the next "Series of Unfortunate Events" would be out in October.

I believe that will only happen if the author has not been placed in a straitjacket first. I do believe he is totally insane.

However we find the books fascinating. Quick and entertaining reading

Sending pictures

I am trying to learn how to post pictures to our blog.

We have hundreds of pictures in our "Kodak Easy share files" I have downloaded picasso but try as I may I can't get it to work. Would one or two of you computer whizzes tell me in a few "simple" lines, how to get a picture posted?

I await your comments.

Story about "Mormons"

I had an interesting weekend and week so far. I'll make it as short as possible. Saturday I got a call from a man in the ward who invited me to give a blessing to a very ill older sister. I did so and had a feeling that she really needed to be in the hospital. Gma had called her husband to suggest a rehab unit. Our phone rang at 2:00 a.m. and it was a deputy sheriff saying that this sister had passed away and they wanted me to come over. So I did and spent the rest of the night with the husband. It was a good thing to do cause we got to talk about the church a lot. (He is a non-member) The wife had been active on occasion. They are very close friends with Kristen Oaks (as in Mrs. Dallin H.) So I got to call their house and Elder Oaks answered and I gave him the message.
Now all of this is just a lead in to the story about Mormons. During the course of the night we talked alot and he told me about a time last year when they were in Florida. (they wintered there) It was after some hurricane activity and he was in a room with a bunch of non mormons watching TV. A protestant minister was talking and indicated how grateful he was for the help from other churches He said a lot of the food and stuff that they received was old and outdated. However, there were three churches that were excellent. Quality and quantity. He didn't know much about them but one was LDS and he didn't know what that meant, the 2nd one was Latter Day Saints and the third was Mormons and they all knew about them. Figures!!
OK. Enough for the second posting.

OK, You Win

We give up. We have joined the multitude.

We're not sure how much we'll participate but we will give it a go.

We really have enjoyed reading your various blogs. Seems to be a great way to keep in contact with everyone. Hopefully as we get into it we'll be able to do some of the cool things you guys do.

This has been a wild couple of weeks. Lots of activity and not a whole lot of sleep.

Oh, there is one thing that we state as absolute fact and will not be disputed!!

We have the world's cutest, smartest and best behaved great-grandchildren. (Our grandchildren fall into the same category too but we wouldn't want to create large egos)

Comments are welcome.