A Slow Week

You know it has been a slow week when all I have to blog about is our ailing garbage can. A week ago it lost its lid when the super-duper trash truck picked it up an dumped it--the lid went into the abyss along with the rest of the nonrecyclables. Then, later in the week we had a big rain storm. Our half-full trash can was now half full of water too. Yuck!

Gary decided to solve the problem temporarily by drilling holes in the bottom; I decided to solve the problem permanently by dialing 311. That got me the City of Dallas and they say they will bring us a new one, sometime over the next 10 days.

Rachel didn't work very much this week because she got sick. I guess that is one thing nice about subbing--you can just say no. She did her usual babysitting for Karis, but this week Karis came to our house instead of Rachel going there. Rachel's work with Karis may be coming to an end as Karis will soon be receiving respite care from a nurse.

We've watched some playoff games, I got the oil changed in the van today, and the weather finally got cool enough for me to wear a jacket one day this week. My mom called to say she is having cataract surgery next week. I guess that is the family news for now.