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Well it's been a few weeks and Cody is back home but the girls don't come home until Monday... the time has flown by and I haven't really accomplished much. Not that I had a list of stuff I wanted to do - just mainly relax and enjoy a relatively clean house... I've done that at least...

We didn't get out riding our ATV's as much as I wanted - but that's OK... September is a busy month for ATVing - there are several derbies and rides. We managed to go riding once to Lafarge pits just east of Richer... it was a perfect day and I was looking forward to going swimming. But it just wasn't meant to be... Robin ended up in the water - WITH HIS MACHINE!! Oh my... there were sea-doo's around where we were and one of the waves came in and picked up his machine and when the wave went back out - it took his machine WITH it! When I finally heard him calling me - he was a little panicked to say the least. The only part of his machine above water was about a foot of the back rack... to those of you who don't know machines well - THIS WASN'T A GOOD THING! lol Needless to say it stalled while under water. We ended up taking most of it apart to empty out the water - we even had water coming out the exhaust! We finally got it going and drove it back to the truck - water mixed with oil isn't a good receipe but it could have been a lot worse. We got home and parked it until I could get oil for it. We bought the cheap stuff from Walmart to change it a few times as Yamalube is $8 a litre! Not cheap at all... Robin changed the oil 3 times and the oil looks normal again. We haven't been out riding together since so we'll wait and see. For those of you who know me - know that I LOVE pictures! For me to say that I don't have a picture of this day - oh boy. I was tempted to take a picture as I winched him out - but one look from him said "Don't you dare!" so I was nice and didn't... now I regret it though... :o)

Robin has wanted to see a Major League Baseball game forever so this weekend we're heading down to Minneapolis to watch the Minnesota Twins and the Texas Rangers play... I think it will be a good weekend... our last alone until Christmas... we'll enjoy while we can. He tells me the interstate down there is VERY fast and that I'll be driving so I've mapped out where our hotel is and how to get to the Metrodome... I want to do some sightseeing as well but we'll see how I do driving there first.

I've been thinking alot about the miners trapped down in Utah and my thoughts and prayers are with them and their families... hopefully they make it out alive. I can't imagine what they're going through...hang in there.

That's about it for now - have a good one!

posted by Tracy @ 9:55 PM