It was a rather quiet and homebound weekend. Today I worked on cleaning up the backyard, leaves, sticks, toys, and all. Every fall the backyard gets hazardous due the chewed up nuts and the sticks all over, dang squirrels. I also got the hoses put away since I got the sillcock fixzed yesterday. I was determined to finally get around to fixing the backyard sillcock this weekend, which has been leaking considerably lately, so Saturday early afternoon I shut off the water to the house and started draining the pipes. If all goes well, I told Beth, it shouldn't be more than a few minutes. Well, it was more like 4.5 hours without water service to the house, between water that just wouldn't stop draining, soldering on the sillcock sideways, pulling the new joint apart, running to Ace to get a new coupling, not being sure if the new coupling was soldered on well enough, running back to Ace for another coupling, cutting off the suspect joint, re-soldering a new length on the pipe, and getting everything on straight, all while trying to let the kids help. But all the joints are watertight and the new sillcock does not leak. The kids wanted to go under the house with me so bad but I thought that would be more trouble than it would be worth, so I let them watch from the access. We were supposed to have adate night but Katie couldn't do it tonight, so we took the kids out to supper and that was it. Friday we had everyone over for Bible study and watched the second half of "Facing the Giants." Wednesday, Kids Klub has the first skating night in at least a couple years, maybe since Beth was pregnant with Missy. Anyway, I took the kids out on the floor skating and helped them along most of the evening, moving along the rail. It was basically the first time on skates for either of them, and they did respectably well. They both did OK on the carpet, the floor was harder. Missy didn't want to leave; BIG tears when it was time to go. "I want to stay here and skate some more!!!!!"