Bumps in the Night...

Work on the basement is moving along well (I promise I'll put some pictures out here very soon, I know people are dying to see a bunch of 2x4s and Coleson expertly shooting cans off the top of the water heaters with the nail gun). On Saturday night at about 2 or 3 a.m. Summer and I were rudely awakened by an extremely loud rumbling noise coming from the basement directly under our bed. My buddy "helping with the basement" (i.e., pretty much doing all the work that requires any sort of technical construction skill, such as using a tape measure or tuning in the radio to various rock ballads from the 80's), has occassionally been trying to unnerve me by mentioning "strange happenings" in the basement when it gets dark. So granted when the loud diesel engine caliber noise kicked in at this forsaken time of night, my first thought was, "Oh man, he wasn't kidding!" Summer jumps awake, and we're both thinking the whole house is coming apart. After a few seconds of groggy anticipation, I realize that we had simply left the air compressor plugged in and it had leaked some air over the hours and finally kicked on to re-pressurize. Gratefully the boys did not wake up, and the compressor shut down after 20 seconds or so. Considering the time of night and my initial thoughts of what might be causing the noise, I bravely decided that I would wait till morning to unplug the compressor. Shortly thereafter Summer and I fell back asleep, and I'm proud to note that I bravely unplugged the compressor after church the next day. No strange happenings to report concerning the basement construction, other than our occassional choice of easy listening music while working.

On another note, Sunday was Coleson's first day with his new primary class and teacher. Coleson finally found out that his Mom, Summer, is his happy new teacher, and he is beside himself with joy and excitement at this wonderful development. It was hard keeping this a secret, but well worth the anticipation and surprise that Coleson has been feeling. Ammon is still having a great time in nursery, and I would reiterate everything from the first posting we put out here about Ammon, nursery, and Robin (I finally attached a picture to that first nursery posting).