On Friday night, about 10:00, Ryan (Eric’s brother) called.  The result of their discussion was that we left our house around 9:45 on Saturday morning to work on Ryan’s flooded basement. It turned out that his sump pump had burnt up (the motor was shot), so Eric pulled it out, we bought a new one, and then he installed it.  When he plugged it in, the water gushed out of the basement with the sound of a thousand gallon toilet being flushed.  Unfortunately, his sump is not at the lowest point in his basement.  So we ended up spending a couple of hours sucking up the water in Eric’s wet vac and pouring it into the sump to be sent out to the street.  He has a VERY large basement, too, so we figured we dumped around 150 gallons of water just by ourselves.  There was also lots of trash (and some stuff that is not trash) all over the basement, and (here’s the kicker), the cats who live in the house seem to like to poop just in front of the litter boxes, rather than in the litter boxes, so the water was not clean water and the whole place had a very rank smell.  I found myself repeating my theme word regularly while we worked…YUCK!

Anyway, the day got better from there.  We got home, cleaned up (YEAH! ), then drove to Cedarville for Chris’ birthday party.  It was actually a lot of fun.  The girls are very amusing to watch, especially when they are entertaining each other.  Holly was a bit grumpy to start out, but she got over it.  And Chris seemed to like his gifts…always nice!

Sunday was pretty uneventful. Church, dinner (grilled hamburgers and the first zuchini of our harvest (also grilled)!), then we just hung out.  Eric read, worked on his computer.  I surfed the net, cleaned the kitchen and then just worked around a bit.  We watched some TV before going to bed.