This morning, most of us were sitting around eating or reading scriptures and we heard a loud thud upstairs. Rachel was up there, and I figured she pulled her dresser drawer out too far and it fell out or something; but then she started calling for us. I went running upstairs and found her standing in the bathroom terrified and the hair dryer was in the sink where she had thrown it. I guess after years of wrapping the cord around the handle, it had broken. She said, "The hair dryer exploded!"
The cord had thrown sparks where it comes out of the back of the handle. She said right before that, she had a feeling she should stop using it and she had moved it away from her head. It threw sparks on her, but if she had still been holding it by her head they might have gone in her eyes! We've never had that happen before. I've gone through a lot of hair dryers, but they've always just stopped working or started smelling like they were burning and I would get a new one. This was quite a bit scarier.
After that, Jeff and Sam took it apart to see what it was like inside. Wilson used to do that when something would break. He found out quite a bit about electrical things when he was a young teenager. He even managed to fix a thing or two over the years. It was more simple inside than I expected.
We had to go over the old house today to check on it, because it still hasn't closed. We gave them another extension for two more weeks, but we told them that was it. If they can't get themselves together by then, I guess we'll just put it back on the market. When we got there, it seemed like someone had been in the house. The lights weren't how we left them. Maybe they did another inspection to see if we fixed all those things that didn't need fixing.
We went to the grocery after checking on the house, and we were going to do math this evening since we didn't do any earlier. I don't know why we think we're going to do things like that. It was almost 8:00 by the time we got home, and we hadn't eaten dinner. Like we're going to do math after that!
We read quite a bit of Streams to the River, River to the Sea today. We decided that part of the reason none of us like it is because there's no emotion in it. It's full of short sentences (which I combine as I read) and it just tells what happened. It reminds me of a newspaper article. I think we'll finish it anyway, but we're probably not reading anything else by Scott O'Dell. They never enjoy anything he's written. It's too bad.
See you tomorrow!
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