Today Grandma is moving over to Jim and Ann's house. It's been fun having her around. She will be there for the next three or four weeks, then back here again until we go back north.

Also today, our friends Bill and Donna from Tennessee will be arriving for a one-week stay. We have many activities planned for them while they are here ... first on the list will be asking Bill to help John install our new garbage disposal. I'm sure they will be hoping the excitement level will go up from there!

The disposal problem has been sort of exciting, though, all by itself. It developed an invisible crack in the plastic housing, which allwed a slow leak. We more or less let that go for a week or so, trusting that the bucket we already had stored under there would catch the drips, which it did ... for a while.

However, yesterday, the tiny little crack expanded to a 2-inch slit. Then, when we used the disposal, it sprayed the water (dirty water, of course) out forcefully instead of letting it drip. When I opened the under-sink cabinet door to see what was going on, it sprayed all the way out into the room. The effect was sort of like when you spit between your teeth to make the spray go further!

Wow. Nevera dull moment, huh?