Week 17: Color Jam 2018

Last week it was finally warm enough to walk up to meet the bus everyday. Granted, 60 degrees and cloudy/windy feels much different than 60 degrees and sun, but we'll take it. Sunday I pruned our tree while the kids played and launched the rockets they made on astronomy day. Wednesday was warm enough (but a little rainy) to have Zach's cub scout meeting at the park. Then Saturday Zach and I ran in the Color Jam 5k school fundraiser like we did two years ago. It was fun but a little cold for me and so windy that not a lot of the color dust actually stuck to us. I'm working on heat setting what did stick, so we'll see how that goes. Zach wants to show it off at school. Frank, Gabe, and Charlotte got a good bit of walking/running around in too, with taking some pics/videos of us and heading to the playground at the sports complex we were at. After the run we bought a shop vac at Lowe's and headed back for some chores around the house. After being on/off the to-do list for a few years, we finally tried to figure out if our sump pump even works. Presently it does not, though we are relieved that we have not needed it in the time we've lived here. We sucked out some old slimy water but have yet to further clean or troubleshoot the pump. We moved on to the very easy task of hanging doors on our living room bookcases. We'd had them for a few weeks since our last Ikea run. Ah, so much cleaner! The living room is really coming along, and I hope to be back in a week or two with some photos of it freshly painted.