More cottage stuff – This cottage has a septic tank and a holding tank and something is wrong with the float that triggers the pump that pumps the holding tank out to the septic tank, so when the holding tank fills up (about 1-2 times a day) then we have to go out and plug it in manually to drain it down. There are some foul things in life, but that ranks right up there. My sister Anna came up with the water-saving bathroom ditty that we were supposed to use:
“If it’s yellow, let it mellow,
If it’s brown, flush it down!”
Within the first hour this was mutated to:
“If it’s yellow, flush that fellow,
But Mr Brown can stick around!”
Potty humour has *not* lost it’s appeal.
More: tuesday 12:05pm, en route to home (about 2 hrs left in the flight).
My friend Dale had his wedding on Saturday and I was the best man. I’ll include my speech in another post. It went pretty well, It was not too hat (around 75) but it was immensely humid, rained on and off that morning and was like a second skin under the tux. I wanted to jump in the river with all my clothes on before we had even started the service. It went well and then there were the endless pictures (ENDLESS I TELL YOU). The reception went OK, except for the maid of honor forgetting part of her speech and having to run out and print a new copy off. I saw a few people that I didn’t know, and was only awkward on the dance floor once, during the dreaded ‘wedding party dance’. I’m not a good dancer, despite my ‘good rhythm’, and about all I can manage is to not step on someone’s feet whilst shuffling randomly around and bumping into people. The maid of honor was very nice, however and didn’t let me fall or feel too out of place. My wife danced with me though, and somehow I always feel like I’m dancing on air when we dance together :). My wife, mother and I fled early (around 9:30) after the speeches and the like were done, as it had been a long couple days.
The kids have been good though, for the most part, and I hope that when they grow up they’ll have fond memories of our travels, of seeing their cousins and aunts and uncles.