My group at work had a little celebratory get together Friday this week; we all went to lunch at the Boathouse and afterwards went to Trey’s house for board games. Unfortunately most everyone had prior engagements for Friday evening so we only spent a couple hours playing (the choice was ‘Survive! Escape from Atlantis’). I had to bow out by around 5 because our life group was going out bowling. Most of the group was there at the alley and bowled a couple of games together. I bowled, Beth did not (bowling is one of the off-limits activities since she had her hands reconstructed a few years back). I did all right for not having bowled in some time. Years. I bowed around 90 the first game and around 130 the second, which is about what I bowled when we were bowling regularly, so I gather I’m not a very good bowler. By Saturday, Beth was feeling sick, and on Sunday, she stayed home from church (I went because I’m driving the van for the next 2 weeks, but I’m starting to feel like I’m coming down with something). Not much else happened this week except Beth was working all week. So, she has a feeling that she caught something from someone who came in there.

We had an unusual occurrence Saturday that necessitated me calling a plumber. However I’m finding out that apparently there are no plumbers anywhere in the area that will take a call on the weekend, so plan ahead to have your plumbing problems during business hours. Anyway the downstairs toilet clogged up pretty badly, and whatever was clogging it moved past where the drain joins the shower drain because what was going down the toilet was coming up into the shower, which was gross. Mostly confined to in the drain, but I could still see stuff down in there and plunging the toilet only sent stuff into the shower, and was not effective in clearing the clog. I even went out and bought a snake which was also no help, but eventually the clog went down by itself, and the snake did bring back up a pair of large tweezers. No telling how long that thing had been stuck in the u-bend, or if it is the reason that it clogged. But it certainly can’t hurt to have it out.