What was planned to be a fairly leisurely Saturday morning proved the maxim that what can go wrong will, at the inappropriate time. Actually, nothing really bad happened, just that I got to spend a goodly part of the morning doing bicycle light repair work. One of the bicycles had a low rear tire. When I went to pick up the bike, I was told that the lights weren’t working. I checked, and they weren’t working on that bike nor on the other bike. So I brought the bike and the lights from the other bike back to the house and pumped up the tire. I checked the other bikes near where we live. Those lights weren’t working or were very dim. The lights all needed those little round batteries, some took CR2032 and others CR2016. I didn’t have any of either, so I went to Ace Hardware to pick up some batteries. They had a few, but not nearly enough. The auto parts store in the same strip mall had a few more and could order in the rest that I needed to arrive later in the day.

So, most of the bikes now have lights working. There aren’t any bicycle paths in the town of Laie and there are very few street lights. The back light on one bike is not functional and will need to be replaced. The sister missionaries who are riding bikes are always coming home after dark and not having lights is pretty hazardous. There are four companionships who are riding bicycles, five companionships who have a car to drive, and four companionships who have neither a car nor a bike, only their feet.

The revised landscaping is under way and the fountains have been updated. We still can’t put up a flag, though. The pole looks a bit dorky without a flag on it!

Life is tired tonight.