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It's been a week so I thought I ought to post something here. Even though there isn't much to post about, we have been keeping incredibly busy...

Except for tonight and Saturday night, we had something to do each evening since last Tuesday. A movie at a church member's house; a Connell Grain Grower annual meeting; a ML high school football game; hockey at Tri Cities. Lou was on the program for the grain grower dinner and meeting as the "entertainment." He volunteered to show some photos and talk about Brazilian agriculture. Which meant I had to sort thru some of our digital pictures, arrange them into something coherent, and burn a CD to be played on someone's laptop computer and shined onto the wall via a projector. It gave me fits for a while (I am not good at this stuff and I haven't yet installed Powerpoint on this computer -- it would have taken me too long to learn to use it for this anyway), but in the end it turned out well, the photos worked out fine, and Lou did a good job talking off the cuff. Too bad my voice recorder battery was dead.

Friday was the high school's last football game of the season. The best part of going to those is sitting in the new bleachers with old friends from church that we haven't seen for a while. This week's game was an odd game since both teams were already knocked out of the playoffs last week, so nobody was sure why the game was even being played.

Saturday afternoon I went to the ML high school musical, "Oliver!" They're fun and I have always enjoyed musicals. Not too many of the kids that I know anymore, though.

On Sunday the hockey game started at 5 PM instead of the usual 7 PM, and we try to go to those since we can be home by 10 instead of midnight afterwards. It was a pretty exciting game this time, lots of scoring, and TriCities Americans won so that was a bonus.

All of that and working on getting farm inventories done and end of the fiscal year book work finished and regular bills all paid (tomorrow's job) pretty much uses up my days. Corn combining is going full speed when it's dry enough out there to go -- looks like tonight could be an all-nighter for Ben and Kit. With both under 30, they can do that, I guess, when the field is right by the house. They might be nearing 50% done pretty soon -- only 200 acres to go :o) Handy to have Kit here and helping with that, obviously.

Oh, the other news seems to be a gas war in town. They always used to accuse the ML gas stations of price fixing as it seemed they all had the same (higher than other towns nearby) prices here. But there seems to be one or two who aren't playing by the rules anymore, and prices have been falling nicely for a change. When they were $4.22/gallon this summer I thought I'd never see a "1" in front of the price of a gallon of gas again, but on Saturday, I saw it! If one is willing to pay cash, you can even buy regular unleaded fuel for $1.89/gallon here now. Wow. Who knew Americans could cut their consumption to effect prices that much? I guess when we have to, we can. Nice job (Lord knows I did not do my part on that one.) Seems to be a Moses Lake thing, as on Sunday evening I was still seeing prices around $2.35 in the TriCities.