Nick Adamson came to visit this week. He works for Ameriprise in Dallas. We got to have dinner with him on Tuesday and Wednesday night and catch up a little.
On Wednesday night I was in charge of Scouts so we started the Space Exploration merit badge. We made spaghetti rockets. You take a bunch of dried spaghetti and you glue it to a model rocket engine. Then you add fins and decorations made of paper or cardboard. Nick and Elisa each made one too. It was a blast. You would never have guessed that I was never a Boy Scout. Mine was pretty pathetic. It made it halfway off the launch pad and then got stuck without ever getting airborne. Nick and Elisa both got some good distance out of theirs.
On Thursday night we had a campout for the Scouts. (They were off school on Friday). We did the car camping thing. We also launched the boys’ rockets off at the campout. It’s a fun activity. The boys also had fun playing with starting the fire and stuff. They were always a little afraid and waited for an adult to say it was OK before they tried anything. We also played murder in the dark until midnight.
There was a harvest festival on Saturday where they had prize pumpkins on display. The winner was 1,010 pounds. Daniel grows a big pumpkin himself so we thought it would be fun to go with him and Tara. He didn’t think his pumpkin would be able to compete though.
On Saturday evening I got really brave. I ripped up the linoleum in our master bathroom. Elisa and I extracted the toilet. We are going to cut away a big section of the floor that has water damage. I think I know how to get it all put together now. The damage was a lot more contained than we had thought. It doesn’t extend into the kitchen and barely extends into the guest bathroom. We are going to be able to do repairs without moving any plumbing in the guest bathroom, thankfully. The bad news is there are a billion bugs and spiders coming into the house, which Chad blames on the colder weather but which I know is really due to the hole in our floor.