Friday the 13th

We are in our new home and still unpacking.  But, we are enjoying it all too.  Except perhaps for this past Friday the 13th.  Murphy's Law was in full effect in our world!

When I took Ashley to school, a bicyclist turned right in front of us.  We stopped in time, but I was not happy about this.  That was #1.  #2 was a squirrel did the same thing.  Again, we were able to get around the squirrel and he survived - he was soooo lucky.  #3 arrived when I stopped at Ashley's house and we went in and then I took her, Gandalf, and Skipper to drop her off at school.  All going well.  Since I was only going to Melbourne once that day, I drove back to her dad's to drop off Gandalf.  That is when #4 struck - my keys to get into the house were in the house!  Drat.  And I did not have Gandalf's meds despite my now driving to our house with both dogs.  Gandalf loved this as he got to spend the whole day in Grammy & Grandad Daycare.  All this occurred in about an hour.  Still had not connected it was Friday the 13th.

Onward to home events.  Pat and I decided to put up our first Hunter 5-Minute Stratford fan.  Along came #5, an appropriate number considering this was the "5-Minute Fan"    The "red" wire which was never ever mentioned in the Hunter instructions defied us.  We got the wires together and turned it on...SPARKS!  Quickly turned off.  Charred spot on metal plate.  Drat, double drat, that mysterious red wire.  To the web for info on this.  Others had encountered the same problem and gave options.   After fooling with this for about 2 hours (for a 5-minute fan), we gave up for the day but not before dropping a screw from the fan directly into the fan!  Oh well. 

The rest of the day was, in general, non-Murphys's Law.

Saturday morning Pat got the fan up and the fan and the light work great.  We love it!  Thank God it was now Saturday the 14th!