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What a Week!

We always think that things will slow down after New Year.  However, this is not the case.  Every day we have been very busy and were supposed to have our first full week of work since the New Year.  The week was going well, just busy at work and dad had another Dr appointment.  They are trying to clear him for procedure and he ended up having to have a stress test and pick up another medication.  Michelle and I had our Thursday dinner together before church and our facilitation of Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace University.  We have 4 weeks of the class left and it has been a lot of fun.  We may do it again this fall.  On January 22 we will be hosting Courageous at 6:00pm at the church.  So we were getting back into Burt after 9:00pm on Thursday night and everything was dark.  There was no power again!  This time we were a little better prepared.  We had stored water in gallon jugs so that we were able to flush toilets, etc.  I came up with a way to make coffee and having the wood burner provided us with heat.  We made sandwiches and cooked soup on the stove also.  It took several hours to get the temperature up in the house.  The boys were really good and played together all day.  We found out that someone vandalised a substation causing the power outage.  Power was restored around 3:00pm on Friday.  It had been out for 21 hours.  We also got some snow and have around 3-4 inches on the ground finally.  Looks like it may stay for a while.  We are looking at our race schedule for the summer and trying to plan this out.  I am getting the bikes ready and the first race is a winter race at Lake Orion High School.  It has been several years since I did this race and am looking forward to it.  Well all for now and I will update with photos when the bikes are complete.  Dennis

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