When it Rains. . .

So the sky continues to fall. More pieces hit the floor this morning. My boy says that it doesn't look like much more should come down since there's only a small bubble of plaster still. We haven't heard back from the two emails we sent to our landlords and my boy isn't sure the landlords are home (we're chickens and haven't gotten the nerve to knock on their door). Rent is due this week, so being passive, we'll include a note with our checks.

In other news we were on the way to pick up our CSA today when our car started making a horrible screeching noise. there was no place to pull off and finally we had to pull into one of the mansion driveways off Centre street. My boy looked under the hood even though, I was screeching, turn off the car first, you don't know what could explode out when you open the hood of that thing with it on!!!!! I also had gotten out of the car and run to the back assuming that even though the sound appeared to be coming from the front, perhaps the exhaust system had fallen off and was scraping and that's why it stopped and started.

Turns out it was some belt that broke which was causing all the noise. We didn't want to stay in the rich people's front yard though so we drove the car back toward the Arnold Arboretum where we knew there was parking. The car showed that it was hot (I thought, big deal, so am I, it's 80 some degrees out and your ac doesn't work!!), but it made it to the spot and AAA sent a tow truck quickly and since our mechanic is in Halifax, PA, we had the car taken to pep boys where they say that they should be able to look at it today.

We're lucky we have good friends. We called three people and the first agreed to pick up my boy at pep boys, and the other two asked if we needed rides (we were calling for them to pick up our csa). So all has ended fairly well, though as soon as we got home from pep boys my boy put on his pjs and went to take a nap so he could start the day over again. . .