Flooded with music

Robb's working on the Christmas letter and I'm scheming on Christmas presents...  

Oh, speaking of Christmas presents.  I want a flat of shingles for Christmas!  The winds this fall have ripped some off our garage and even though there is tar paper underneath, the torrential downpour we got this year has it being pretty drippy into the garage.  UHHHGGGGG!

So I dragged out the ladder and climbed up into the garage attic a couple nights ago.  It's NICE up there!!!  Except for the drippy spots, it's quiet, peaceful, with no children or clutter!  Also no floor, but I haven't watched National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation a billion times for nothing!  I put out some boards and/or jumped from beam to beam to get to the tight spots where the leaking is happening.  

Since we can't get up onto the roof like Santa in his rain jacket, I had to do some deep knee bend squats and acrobatics on various beams to seal it up from underneath.  At least for the time being... Until it's dry enough and we have some shingles to fix it from up above.

I think I left my good glasses up there...

Also, I scratched my scalp on some of the nails poking through the ceiling boards...  Whoever built our house has some 'splaining to do!

Anyway, no more leaking into the garage for now!  Plus the rain stopped, so WHEW!  The creek in back has swollen up past it's banks too.  It looked less this morning.  I'm glad we live on THIS side of the creek now!!!  Talking about THIS.

Last night I took Meri to her school concert.  Vocal and band.  Robb had picked up Leon and stopped to pick up his mom.  But some time before he got to the school, Leon barfed.  So yeah, he's sick...  Robb dropped his mom off at the school, switched cars with me and took the boy home.  He's much better today and squirrelly!  BUT the menfolk missed the concert.

Meri and one of her besties.

It's funny... The percussion, during the concert band, aren't as squirrelly as they were a few years ago when Maddy was in it...

Now we know where Leon gets it!  His aunts.

I could hear Meri's beautiful voice above the other kids.  And her hair is the LONGEST of any girl, or boy for that matter!  Well, that we could tell.  She told us later that there is one other girl with longer hair, but she wears it in braids and it's just hard to tell.  Plus she was playing an instrument in the back so we couldn't see her.

My camera battery died JUST after this photo...  So I didn't get any of the band...

Well, that's the news from the almost lake woe-be-gone...  

NOT in the Christmassy spirit yet...