When I pulled up my calendar this morning, panic swept over me as I read Idaho Power is coming Tuesday to install the power. I had it in my mind they were coming later in the week. I was stuck. I couldn’t cancel them before they would be prepping to come out. As I called my Idaho Power contact, desperately hoping to catch him on his cell phone…during Memorial Day weekend?, I was stuck leaving a pointless voicemail that there was no way I could complete the trenching in time for his crews. As I was leaving my pathetic message my excavator guy starting ringing in, I bumbled my message to a close and answer. To my astonishment, he said that we would be able to dig Tuesday which had been my initial and erroneous request. I explained my mixup and he offered to dig Monday, I protested slightly that I didn’t want to inconvenience his family and he assured me it wouldn’t. I thanked him profusely and eagerly left my Idaho Power contact a new message, assuring him that we were still, miraculously on schedule. What a wonderful Sabbath gift.
We enjoyed our time recharging at church and are grateful for the quiet evening (if you don’t count the house shaking thunder just after sunset). We discussed a few options for the evening activity and the kids chose to play Cashflow. It is a deep financial game that teaches players to track and improve finances through investments so that the player can get out of the “rat race”. This portion of the board is like a hamster wheel where players endlessly revolve around the small circle eager to acquire the cashflow to exit. We modify the rules for our different aged kids so they can all enjoy, but it was entertaining to watch Drake get frustrated that it was so hard to get ahead financially, other people were doing better, expenses were too high, and he didn’t earn enough. It’s a long game, but the opportunities for learning are better than any other “game” I’ve seen on the topic. It’s been left out to continue tomorrow since no one has made it out of the rat race yet.
A quick Mavic Pro flight caught this image in the fading evening light. Time to get this house sold, a bittersweet proposition.
