PLAY DAY WEEKEND

What do most families do over Labor Day?

I think most plan something fun to do or

somewhere fun to go, don't they? The school

year starts early up here, so this isn't technically

the start of the new school year like most places.

My daughter has already completed her second

full week of school.

Around this house we usually just keep working

on this holiday. We are small business owners

and there are no built in vacation days to take and

we don't get holidays paid so the jobs just

keep on a-rollin'.

This year, however, is different. My husband

broke 2 teeth and one of them broke right at

the gumline--ouch. He went to the dentist

and he said that the teeth were not able to

be saved and needed to be removed. The

oral surgeon comes down from Juneau for

that every few weeks, so he had to wait

almost 3 weeks until this Saturday to

have the teeth removed.

Everything went as well as can be expected,

but he was told not to be lifting, bending

or basically doing anything that would make

the stitched up holes in his mouth throb

and bleed. The surgeon told him there

was a 70% chance of having a dry socket

with the bottom tooth because of where

it's located and his advanced age (41-- LOL)

He was restricted from working, but nobody

said anything about playing! He and the kids

loaded up the 2 Quads and a dirt bike and went

out to the end of the road to ride a little. Both

of our daughters have been riding since before

they could walk, so this is a real treat to them.

Me? I just stayed home and learned a valuable

lesson about putting several pairs of shoes in the

washer at the same time with the laces still on them.

Oh, and while he wasn't working my hamster-cheek

husband cut out all the cabinet materials for the

kitchen--yahoo!

Look what is growing up in our neighbor's yard. Poor guy,

he already went back home for the year and he's missing

these spectacular lillies blooming, along with continued

warm weather. It has been quite the summer with tons

of sun and very warm temperatures. The kind of weather

that makes all the tourists exclaim "I want to live here!"

I wonder what they would say if they could have seen

us trying to get to church last winter with our driveway

so coated with ice that our 1 ton truck with studded

tires and 4 wheel drive was sliding all by itself down

the driveway, in gear with the parking brake on?

They'd say "What kind of numnuts live here!"

Well, back to my bread and bran muffin baking for

a new week of school tomorrow...