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Well, those all might be obvious: Don’t play with matches, Don’t run with scissors, and Don’t cut the power line with a shovel. But perhaps that last one, don’t cut the power line with a shovel might be a very good one to remember.

Last week we were fixing a fence post that had been broken for a long time. My brother-in-law was helping with the shovel, and I was digging out dirt with a little garden shovel when POP!!!! there was a loud bang and sparks when flying everywhere. He got his shirt burned from the sparks, sparks landed all over my arms as we both jumped back.

Fortunately, the shovel just grazed the side of the two power lines. The odd thing about the lines is that they were only 6 inches deep (if that) when they should be a lot deeper.

The blast hit the back of the shovel, in doing so, it probably saved me a number of burns because I was on the other side right down by the hole. The back of the shovel melted from the electricity. There were melted drips of metal that came down from the blast point but flaked off by the time I took this picture because we still had to use the shovel to dig and move the dirt.

Neither of us were hurt, but we did receive a bit of a shock (metaphorically speaking, not literally).  We can’t say the same for the shovel.

We waited for someone from the power company to come and fix the line. When the worked arrived, he buried the line deep like it should be. The Power Man also said that it looked like the line had been hit and then repaired previously most likely when the fence was first built. It didn’t help that he thought he hit the telephone line while he was fixing our line, but everything looked okay, and our neighbors haven’t called us to tell us that their phones aren’t working :) . We made sure that their phone was working.

Lesson learned? Call Blue Stakes and make sure you know how deep the lines are.

Well they say that every cloud has a silver lining. We were in charge of a ward activity at an outdoor swimming pool this evening, and a huge storm rolled in overhead and rain pretty hard. The pool closed, and we can reschedule. After arriving home and having our own little cookie party, we saw a full arc of a rainbow beginning at one side of the mountains and ending at:

The rainbow was awesome.

Singing

We got a new video camera and wanted to test it out. It records in HD, but we forgot to turn on that setting for this video. We wanted to get a video of the girls singing some of their favorite songs.

Just Jumpin’ Around

Well, it took Megan a little while to warm up to the jumping house, but she did, and all the cousins had fun with the jumping house. I was amazed that it fit in the basement.
I took these videos with my G1 Android phone. When I hold the phone for video, I keep [...]

Waiting for Teddy-Grams and Gramps

On Sunday, the girls were excited to have Grandma and Grandpa come and visit, so for lunch, we set up outside so that the girls could wait for Grandma and Grandpa but also eat their lunch.
We decided to snap a few pics.

Autumn didn’t want to be in any of the pictures, so this is as [...]

Awesome Tour of the New Church History Library

The open house for the Church’s Library is underway this weekend only, and we decided the opportunity was too good to miss.  The Library houses old manuscripts, books, etc., from LDS Church History.  On display during the open house were some pretty awesome artifacts.
I took a few pictures with my G1 Android Phone, and was [...]