One of those things we've been saying we should do for pretty much forever is go check out that antiques place along the side of US30 just on the other side of Pierceton. Well, yesterday we did it. I've always been curious as to whether it was one of those places that was crammed full of cool stuff, or junk. On the whole I think it was pretty cool. We must have spent an hour and a half or so there, there are lots of rooms, some with interesting things, some not, but everyone was pretty occupied for most of the time. I didn't buy anything, but I found an old Be-Mo Potato Chips tin that I seriously thought about. It's so neat, and it's so Kalamazoo. But what exactly would I do with it? Basically it would turn into clutter. $30 clutter. I passed on it. But I really did like it. Anyway, Natalie found a big bag of beads and pearls in a jewelry booth that she really liked. She also found a little jewelry box (like index card sized) that she liked and almost bought, but decided in the end to pass on for the pearls because she didn't have enough cash for both. So I remembered it for later. I don't think anyone else bought anything but it was fun poking around.
Jake Boschain's birthday party was Friday. Alex and Missy went, Natalie was going to but she couldn't with the headaches she's been having. She's been missing school with them and all. I am hoping that they don't keep up, they seem awful. Beth and I were hoping for the date night, but not to be.
Last week we had Mark from Steadfast Outdoors drill a hole in the patio. That's another thing we've been saying we should do for some time now. The concrete surface is not even; it has sinks in it, so we almost always have standing water or mud or nasty dirt on the patio. We're hoping that putting a 4" hole in it all the way down to bare dirt will keep it dryer.
Today was the Super Bowl. Patriots, again....nice comeback, though.