Phew!

As you may be well aware by the lack of humor in you life, Julie and I have not been doing much blogging lately. Let me explain why.
First, we went on vacation in mid-January for a week. I know, not exactly the most stressful period of our lives and we probably could have written a blog or two, but we had no internet connection and frankly didn't really care to tell people that we were spending the week watching it snow and swimming in a huge indoor pool by ourselves.
Second, we get back from vacation and play catch-up at work and home. Then I took off for a winter retreat for the Jr./Sr. high students in Sunday school. I'm not really sure what Julie was doing all weekend that she wasn't able to write anything, but I'll assume it was really important.
Third, all of the water that dried up in Georgia this last summer landed on Fort Wayne. I think they stopped measuring it in inches. Of course everything flooded, including our basement. (Ironically, there was a boat show in Fort Wayne this past weekend. Initially I thought this was pretty retarded because first of all it's February and hardly a time to use a boat, and second there isn't a single decent lake within 50 miles. Turns out boats came in pretty handy during the flood and the Boat Show powers that be know what they're doing) Anyway, our basement flooded due to roots growing in our drain pipe and a river needing to pass through it. It wasn't a horrible mess but it did involve a plumber and a large check being written. Fortunately all we have to replace is our carpet, which we had planned on replacing anyway.

Please feel free to share any tales of water woe that you have experienced so we can commiserate together.