ipod: Lost and Found

If you have ever dropped your ipod off the top of Hoover Dam and watched it tumble down the steep slope 75 feet until it crashes onto a rocky cliff ledge below, you probably called it a total loss. Well you were wrong! It sat there for who knows how many months or years beaten by desert sun and occasional rain until this morning when Nathaniel repelled down the dam and found it and it still works great! Hardly a scratch!

We called apple to see if the owner had registered the serial number, but he hadn't. He also hadn't called in to report it lost because he was sure it would never be found alive. Or maybe he saw this as an opportunity to convince his parents he needed an upgrade to the iphone.

Nathaniel wants to list it for sale to see what we can get for it, but the funny thing is that its relevance has deteriorated faster than its hardware, even after the hardware plummeted off a dam and aged in complete exposure to the elements. That's the great thing about technology.

Here's a great commercial on that topic in case you missed it:

Hanging Out to Dry

Hanging by ropes on Hoover Dam, Nathaniel was pulling weeds at near 110 degree temperatures yesterday. The sun was reflecting off the face of the dam to intensify the heat, and he was starting to feel sick with heat exhaustion. 

He had been rushing along for some time now hoping to finish this section and call it a day with the wisdom to start much earlier the next morning.  He passed up all but the quarters now for his racquetball change collection, hearing the rest of the coinage tinkling down the concrete with the debris he was yanking from the crevasses of the dam. He felt weaker by the second.

Just then he hears a tour guide directly above him explain to his group that during early construction of the dam in 1931, one worker died every other day from heat exhaustion between June 25th and July 26th.

The day was June 27th and Nathaniel could just see the kind of imagery that was being produced..."See those two guys down there? One of them will be dead by tomorrow!" He decided it was time to go home.

Lovin' the New Grass

We just finished installing the sprinklers, the fence, and the grass, and the kids are loving their new bare-footed freedom! The lawn seems to be thriving inspite of the rising temperatures. Besides my laundry pile, it's the only thing we've got that grows faster than Adalyn! Nathaniel has been happily mowing each Saturday for two weeks now. We hope the enthusiasm won't wear off before Haven comes to age.