A soaking mess

This evening was a bit of a fiasco. We had grand plans to come home from work, drive over to Andover to pick up our lawn mower which had been in the shop for its annual checkup, then come back home and try out a new recipe, Fricassee de Poulet, which takes about an hour and a half to cook, for dinner.

We managed to get away to the shop ok and got the mower picked up. We don't have an appropriate car for doing these sorts of things, so Michelle's GTI (a little VW hatchback, a speedy Rabbit, if you will) gets the back seat headrests removed, the seats folded down, and the cargo cover removed. These items are all stowed in our garage when we're gone. The mower gets folded up and stuffed in the back for the ride home. Anyway, we get the thing picked up, and are driving back home when we are hit with a monster storm. Close range cloud to ground lightning, driving rain, gusty winds, etc. It started to hail just as we pulled in to our subdivision. We sped into the garage and tried to close the garage door behind us, but the button didn't get pushed right, and the door stayed open long enough for a massive amount of rain and hail to blow in behind us and soak my cargo cover, douse my leather headrests, and blow about and drench my reusable grocery bags that Jeff had placed on the floor of the garage by the door. What a mess.

We had just managed to get the grocery bags and headrests toweled off, and we had put the cargo cover on something to air out, when we noticed an odd hissing/gurgling noise coming from my car. Lo and behold, we had picked up a screw in one of my tires! Which tire, you ask? Why, yes, the very same tire that I had repaired just a couple of months ago! Sigh. We decided to leave that alone for the time being and go inside to start dinner.

We got the first part of dinner going, and Jeff went back out to the garage to swap tires on my car. He had the car jacked up a few inches when the jack slipped, and the car went flying off, thankfully NOT in the direction of Jeff, and landed about a foot away from where it started. Luckily Jeff wasn't hurt, and the car is still straight.

We managed to make dinner come out quite well in the midst of all of this. Unfortunately, Jeff deemed it "not pretty enough" to photograph, so you don't get to see it. Perhaps we'll post on it sometime in the future. It was pretty tasty, though.

We finished the night out with the first half of the movie, "There Will Be Blood." It's decent, so far. Odd characters, but I have to agree that Daniel Day Lewis does a fine job acting his. This is the fourth best picture Oscar nominated film that I have seen in the last month, and I think I like it best so far. The rest have nothing on Ratatouille. LOL