I realize I've been a bad blogger lately, I blame it all on my hectic life. School is ending in two weeks and I've already mentally disconnected myself from it, although that doesn't mean the homework stops coming. I have a 1,000 word paper due tomorrow night that I haven't even started. And then my calling has been busy lately as well, the stake sprung a huge service project activity for the youth and gave us exactly 8 days notice for it. Its not easy to encourage YW to go to service projects altogether, but when they give you short notice its even harder to drill it into their brains, then make them realize that its good to go. The project was held yesterday morning at the Church Distribution Center filling sand bags in case of flood. So if any of your areas are ever hit with a major flood and you see sand bags from the LDS church, I, along with my other comrads, filled them.
Mike on the other hand is staying busy with work and trying to squeeze in fly-fishing when he can. He and his buddy went yesterday morning and he caught 0 fish, his friend caught 8. Poor Mike, I think he might be doing something wrong. At least he still enjoys it.
We also are thilled to say we finally got a new stove. I know a lot of you aren't aware of the stove we used to have, because I'm not exactly proud to show it off. But the whole thing was kind of funny. (I can say that now because its GONE). I took some pictures
It looks like your typical old stove, but actually, the springs on the door were broken which caused the door to lay flat open, unable to shut unless it was latched.
This is how it worked: Mike is showing you the 1st step of grasping the stove top.
Step 2: Lifting the stove top completely up and grabbing the latch (that you can't see very well) and twisting it to open the door.
After the latch is twisted, the door pops open. You have to repeat the same procedure to shut the door again as well.
Here is our beautiful new stove.
I love my new stove.
We had to do this with the old stove for about 6 months. I finally got to the point and told Mike until he bought me a new one I refused to open that stove door anymore. Needless to say that didn't always happen. But Mike did open it a lot more than I did.
