Julie's Journal

Grant & Jami and the kids went to a wedding Saturday in Rome, GA and bought a new tent to camp out that night. It got really cold and they slept very little. They called us Sunday morning and said they would come by on the way back to Athens. We had already been to Mass the night before, so scurried around and got some pizza dough going in the bread machine, loaded the dishwasher and did a little clean up after the garage sale Friday and Saturday. Dad called me in the kitchen and asked if I had spilled some water on the floor. Nope. The dishwasher was leaking! We turned it off and poked around inside to see if something was blocking the drain, but found nothing, so decided to wait for Grant to look at it.

Grant, Jami and Fiona came in exhausted. Michael had slept all the way so he was feeling fine. We asked Grant to see if he could figure out what happened to the dishwasher. He explored and couldn't find the source, and decided we needed a new dishwasher. So, off we went to Sears discount store where we bought a brand new KitchenAid dishwasher. Grant & Jami took the old one out and to the street, brought the new one in and Grant began the installation (it turns out that's really what he is best at - installing a new one and not fixing an old one). He spent hours on our kitchen floor working with the installation, an additional trip to Home Depot for a tool, and finished up about 5:00 p.m. He was tired when he arrived that morning and beyond tired when he left for Athens. Michael tried to help him as you can see from the picture below.

We enjoyed having them all for the day, and regret having Grant work so hard! He may never stop by our house again on the way to Athens. Fiona and Michael had their first visit to the Tiger Cave at the end of the street.