oh my goody-good-goodness, did I panic!

 So without boring you with the details, but prefacing this with all's well that ends well, and we're fine:

I was driving down the road last evening, minding my own business, with Kathryn and baby E. in the car.  We had gone to the grocery store, and were heading toward her house on a back road.  Suddenly, I noticed a fireball in the sky.  I kid you not.  Right up on the electrical pole, a fireball like a foot wide, with sparks.  Kathryn thought she saw a branch fall on the wire, I just saw this electrifying orange ball with sparks, coming towards me, as I drove.  I did what I do best, yes, I panicked.  Full on terror, screamed, it was coming toward me, and then the electrical wire fell SMACK across my car, as I continued to drive, screaming my head off.  I do not know why I was so hysterical, it was just so out of the blue!

Yes, we called 911, and yes, we were all right.  I wasn't sure if I had been shocked, as that adrenaline rush made me shaky and feeling sick.  I never even checked out the car until today, and there are scratches all over it!  I will have to contact the insurance company...I should have stuck around and talked to the police, we basically just reported the down wire.  (We were rather on the down side of a hill, so we didn't stay there...hindsight says we should have)

Of course I had to go pee wicked badly.  I drank iced water then an iced coffee as we drove, and didn't use the bathroom in the store...lesson learned, don't wait so long, you never know when you're going to be scared silly!  

Anyway.  Lightening out of a clear blue sky.  It was sunny and warm and boom. 

This fine day, I went to the pool, then to bring one teenaged girl to her driver's test.  Miss Cam and I sat and waited, couldn't even look as Char pulled out with the instructor.  When she came back around, we didn't turn around as she parallel parked behind the instructor's car.  We weren't to find out if she passed until 6 p.m., so we went to one of the Finger Lakes and sat in the sun.  We waded into the water, but it was a bit murky, and decided to just be hot.  We left, got iced Americanos, then went to Aldi.  Sonja and Oscar were coming over for dinner, so we hurried home to make it.

I cut up chicken breast and marinated it in vinegar and seasonings, then stir fried it all in the wok in olive oil and sesame oil.  Cam stir fried broccoli, red peppers, ect., in the other frying pan, and made jasmine rice.  We had just finished up when Char checked online, and YAY, she passed!  Oh, the times I've gone through the stress and waiting!  Today, we took it in Seneca Falls NY, and there's a little set of bleachers to sit in!  And, it was a lovely day!)

We're home from our conference and staying in the camper, have most things put away and washed.  Paul is moving into the next project, the main bathroom.  The new vanity is put together in his office.  I'm being a brat and insisting on removing the tile that's in there on the floor.  It just looks blah.  It is not under the old vanity either, I would really like new flooring that goes under the new vanity, if that makes sense...I want it up off the floor too, so maybe it won't get as damp under there.  Granted we used that bathroom SO much through the years with all the kids, but the bottom of the present vanity:  rotting out.  

So.  I'm trying to choose new faucets that won't break the bank.  I like champagne bronze, but oh no, way too pricey.  The gold ones are too fancy and loud, the silver/chrome look dated, and the black matte are going out of style, plus the black tends to flake off, especially with hard water.  So I have tentatively chosen brushed nickel.  

I'm thinking for the flooring:  maybe same as out here?  It's waterproof.  Or I could get some that looks like tile.  I don't know, we only will need one or two boxes, so even if it's expensive stuff, it won't be too much.  The girls want to paint the walls white, of course, everything has to be white these days.  In my book, it looks like an apartment when it's all white.  I don't have a vision for it yet.  I'm thinking if we still use the mirrors we have, which I scored at Wegmans, a grocery store, like 15 - 20 years ago for $6 each, and have gold-ish frames, then the nickel faucets, and I can't remember the light fixture I got for a bargain...will it all clash?  Do I care?  

Ah well.  I'm excited to have the bathroom get done though.  And:  we're getting a.c. installed soon...wow, right?  

The swimming pool though, not sure...

Tomorrow night is the symphony and fireworks at one of the Finger Lakes, then Friday we're having a picnic.  Tomorrow during the day I'm baking eight dozen cupcakes for Grace's wedding.

There never is a dull moment, is there?  I will say this, I'm thankful.  :).  I am never bored.