Our basement is guaranteed to be dry, now. With cement dust all over everything, upstairs and down, we have a lot of work to do. I have patched some closets' drywall, and we'll start tearing down drywall in Cael's room and the guest bedroom this weekend. We all will be sleeping downstairs again maybe Sundayish. It will be nice. Our pullout couch isn't too bad, but not for a couple weeks at a time. Last week we went to Palmer to wrestle. Our sophomore who has never wrestled before got his first win! It was the most exciting thing I've seen all year. It was even a pin! I think he probably went to bed with a smile on his face that night. He was flying high! Allen's dad came to the meet, too. It was nice for him to come see Allen coach. Even the boys thought it was cool that he was there. My speech kids are not ready for the meet this weekend, so I'll be going to Humphrey with the wrestlers. We'll try the speech meet on Feb. 2. Maybe someone will have ducks in a row. It was hard to get started this year though, because we were doing the play when we usually start speech practice.