The Wise Man Built His House Upon a Rock

Sister Vann, our secretary, gave us a great gospel lessons when she told us that most of the trees around here have shallow root systems.  The trees get lazy about digging deep because most of the time they hsve an abundance of water, but this area has experienced several years of drought and so now when we have big rains or winds, fallen trees are very common because the trees are so tall that when the ground gets too wet, the roots can no longer support the tree.  It reminds me of one of the scripture mastery(they didn't have those in my day) scriptures that I am trying to memorize - 2 Nephi 31:19-20.  For those of you young enough to have done scripture mastery, try to repeat it before you look it up!

Unfortunately our apt. is like the foolish man and has no roots, or rock so to speak, at all.  We awoke Monday morning to squishy carpet in our bedroom, hallway and 2nd bedroom.  The great joy of renting is that we can just report our troubles and they take care of it.  We thought it might be a crack in the cement floor and high ground water, but we found out later that an iron pipe in our ceiling sprung a leak.  They took up the carpet and had fans blowing for 2 days, and finally put the carpet down last night.  They should be repairing the wall and ceiling today.

Gracie, Gunner and Maisy at the Houston Temple

We had a wonderful weekend with our daughter, Maggie and her children.  Maggie spoke at our Friday Forum on personality types and how to work together in groups by honoring the differences in those types.  The high point was when her 3 yr. old daughter, Maisy came up to her and said, "I need to do poopies!"  This visit was a great way to test out our accommodations for visitors.  The blow up bed was a great temptation to become a trampoline!  I also realized just how small an apt. is and that I need some toys on hand if I want to be an adequate Nanny.  I loved showing off family.  Unfortunately we didn't get to play outside a lot since we had major downpours all weekend.  We had over 5 inches of rain in less than 24 hours.  Maggie said, "I guess that is why everything looks so green."  We are surrounded by forests and beautiful trees.   On the picture below, it is hard to see Maisy the 3 yr. old, but she could hold on for several rounds.  That girl is crazy.

The swinging mushroom at the park