Now comes the part where we try to figure out what we can do with the rest of summer, since we've got less than a month left. Alex and Missy are still scheduled to go to in-person school, but Nat will be doing the online school again this year so she's all set. We'd all like to do things but we're not sure what we should. The virus seems to be on the rise all over, although around here doesn't seem as bad as other places. The county is now up to 764 cases.....Alex had his wisdom teeth out on Monday, the third and final kid to have oral surgery this summer. He only had 2 taken out though. It went pretty well, although similar to when he had his tonsils out in 2010 he wouldn't stop bleeding. Beth had to take him back in to get some resorbable stuff to put in the hole (or something) to stop it. And he seemed to have more pain than Missy did; hers came out super easy.....I got a service tech out here for the dryer early this week. They came right in, worked for a bit, and got the thing working again. It's not the first time that dryer has been fixed, I wonder how much longer it will last.....I also took the truck in to the Ford dealer to get a few things fixed. The power window has been acting up, getting stuck up or down and shorting out somewhere (so that pushing the switch makes the LED on the mirror defogger turn on). They found a broken wire in the door. I also had them fix teh windshield washers; they had to replace the washer pump. That all set me back around $250.....Alex also got his driver's license Friday! We had everything that the Road Skills guy said he would need to get it, but the ever-helpful BMV needed his certificate of completion for his classroom course, which we did not have. So he and Beth had been in line for 90 minutes for naught. Beth and I had to make a bunch of calls to the school and find someone who would return a phone call before we finally got someone to send him a copy of the certificate (which I still swear the BMV kept when we got his permit originally), so back to the BMV and this time he got it. So now my insurance is going to spike, by about double.....Missy has been doing the driving part of driver's ed at the school this week.....Saturday I was asked if I could help out installing a fence at the home of a family in our small group. They rented an auger, a cement mixer, and got all the supplies and just needed help putting it all together. There were 4 or 5 people there, any more would have just been in the way. I went over at around 9am and they were already into it, digging post holes. Even with the machine, it was hard work. In high heat. The ground is clay and rocks where their house is, and we had to keep pressing and pounding the auger down to break up the clay or pulling it out to dig out rocks with a hammer and pry bar. There were a couple of stubborn, softball sized rocks in every hole, it seemed. And there were around 20 holes to dig. We still had several to go by the time we broke for lunch (pizza, provided), and we didn't finish getting the holes dug until around 3:30. We cut an old landline phone line along the way, too, it seems. Placing the posts, mixing and pouring the cement, and leveling the posts was the easy part, relatively, and we were done by about 6:00. I don't think Drew intended the job to take all of us all day, but I'm glad he had help because it was not an easy job.....Sunday, desperate for something to do, we all went to Fort Wayne. Beth and I hung out at the Barnes & Noble, and we let the kids go shop by themselves. The mall wasn't as crowded as it had been last time we were there a few weeks ago, and there seemed to be more mask wearing and crowd control, but Beth and I stayed out anyway. Red Robin for dinner wasn't as crowded as it normally would be either.