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September 6, 2004
Crazy Weekend w/ Car Problems
*sigh*
This has been both a busy and exhausting weekend. First on Friday the car gave us trouble so we had to change the fuel filter. Brian had to stop and get groceries, instead of coming to pick me and the kids up to go with him since the car was barely able to make it home. It rained all day Friday and that made me ache SO bad.
My legs felt like I couldn?t walk on them they hurt so badly. Brian's dad was expected in that evening since he was coming down to help Brian with the guest house.
As I was putting away groceries I get a call from a friend of ours saying they were on their way to New Orleans and wanted to stop in and see us Saturday.
So Saturday Brian gets the filter replaced and they start working on the guest house and then our friends arrive. I?m glad they found the place. Good thing the road sign for the street is back up again. They just replaced it recently since for some reason our rd sign disappears often. We had a nice visit and enjoyed seeing them again. As far as the guest house goes they had half the rafters on. Not bad for half a days work. Also Sat a client who was supposed to come on Friday and drop her PC off didn?t come, but called Sat to drop it off. So at one point we had Brian's dad, my brother, and the client who had just pulled in as our friends were departing.
Today Brian and his dad got up bright and early and worked on the guest house. Then after I got up I made breakfast, though I was feeling pretty awful. After awhile my brother came by much later than he was going to, he had accidentally way over slept, he didn?t get up till 1pm hehe. Anyways after awhile I called my mom to see how they faired thru the hurricane. They are currently out of power but my grandmother who lives not to far from them has power so they aren?t sure how long they will be w/o it. Other than that they faired well. OH and something exciting happened while I was talking with my mother on the phone! It was about 6 ish, I was inside looking out the kitchen window when all of a sudden I saw something brown and skinny running into our front yard. At first I thought it was a dog but as it gets closer I realize its a deer and a baby deer at that since it had its spots still! It ran all the way up to our porch area and right under my kitchen window, frantically and then finally found its way into the land across the street. Its HIGHLY bizarre to see a deer running around in the middle of the day, in our front yard! It surely was kewl to see though, I finally saw a fawn and quite clearly too! In the afternoon today Brian had to run out to get some nails for nailing the decking to the roof. He didn?t get very far before the car gave out again. So he turned around and came home. The car would rev up and then down w/o you doing anything. Most of the time it would either sputter along about 10 miles an hr, or just plain die out. Now mind you we THOUGHT we had this problem fixed, since the fuel filter was very clogged & the car ran fine Sat and Sun w/o probs, but its not the problem. So now he has to look into the fuel pump and maybe a sensor. The car wont even make it to town to get parts so he had to call into work and let them know he wont be there and now we have to try and get this fixed ASAP.
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While he was working on the car his dad was still working on the guest house and now all the decking is on and even some of the roofing paper is on. Its so cool to see a ROOF on it. It no longer looks like the Grecian ruins with just "pillars" aiming at the sky, but a real pitched roof on there saying "I?m finally shaping up into a house!" hehe. We ate a late dinner and then his dad headed home.
Tomorrow is going to be *fun*.
