Beth has been going up to Shipshewana the last three days for a quilt show. She went in on a booth with a friend and was showing her quilted placements and such, which everyone ooohed and aahed over but nobody bought. Seems familiar. Anyway yesterday I took the kids up there during the day to visit with her for a while, which bored them, but when we got home it was time for a Katie day so we went out to dinner at Mad Anthony's. Again, no movie was playing that we wanted to see, so we just hung out with Virgil and Sherri.
This past week has been a perfect example of how The System works. Last June I wrote a letter to the superintendent of public works for the city of Warsaw, explaining the terrible condition of the road in front of our house and requesting them to fix it. This week a road crew fixed the road in front of our house. Amazing! But true. Now let's just wait for it to rain and see if it helps with the flooding. It did rain last Monday, when I went to Auburn with a couple other people from work to visit with Classic City Tool & Engineering as a supplier. It absolutely stormed while we were there, and the sky looked as weird as I've ever seen it. During the night, it continued to storm at home and all the tornado sirens were going off in town, so Beth and I got the kids out of bed at around 11:30 or midnight and took them downstairs. Alex barely ever woke up, and I kept him on my lap in the bathroom downstairs for a while before things cleared up. Missy never woke up either. I don't think either of them remembered getting up and going downstairs by morning.
The cache that Beth and I placed last weekend had to be moved, because it turned out to be too close to some other caches in the area. I ran to the trail during lunch on Friday and retrieved it (still where we left it) and found another place a bit farther away. Hopefully it'll be good where it is now.