SURPRISE Oh Crap!!

My bathroom now looks something like the Vickery's. However my surprise was not planned and was not for someone else. This morning my father came over and we started in on completing the demolition that was started O' let's say about a year ago. This bathroom remodeling project started due to a busted pipe in the wall behind the shower. I was really happy about this because for a couple of years I had wanted to rip out the shower stall and put in a tub shower combo. So all went well - and for the last year I have had a wonderful shower and tub with a couple of walls of unfinished dry wall. No problem - I was saving up to tear the rest out and put in a new sink, new medicine cabinet, new paint, new flooring, etc. So today was the big day - demo and it was going along real well. We had the two remaining walls stripped down to the studs and went to the attic to work on removing one of two light fixtures. Well... while we were in the attic half of the bathroom ceiling relocated itself to the bathroom floor. This was due to nothing we had done other than freeing it from the support of dry wall on two walls. So now my ceiling looks like this. (nice blue tarp. it matches the tile)


Looks like this little surprise will cost me a few more days of remodel and a new plan for heat in the bathroom since it had electric ceiling heat.

Building to Bless

Here is a picture of the footing that was dug yesterday in front of the Family Life Center. It is great to see the construction crew at work making our dream of blessing our youth, kids and community a reality. They are saying that we will have the new building up in no time. The steel should be here the second week in December. We are now in the process of looking at paint colors, flooring and such for the interior of the new areas we are creating in the new building as well as the remodel of the existing Family Life Center. I will try to take pictures daily so that you can keep up on the progress.

So Clean

I had my car, a 1999 Honda Accord, detailed last weekend. It is so clean it feels like new. I made a covenant with this car - it is until death do us part. I am counting in it going first but I plan on driving it as long as it will run. This is part of the reason I had it detailed. I want to do all I can to keep it in good condition as long as possible. The other reason is that I get great pleasure in having things I own well taken care of, clean and neat. (This is also the reason I like to mow the lawn and garden. It keeps my house looking well taken care of, clean and neat.)
It felt like an extravagance to spend the money to have every inch of my car cleaned but it was well worth it to me. I am thankful that I am able to do things like this.

Do we have leaf raking muscles?

I had a great time this morning as several of us from FFC joined together during our Second Saturday Serve and raked up the leaves from several yards. It was good to just be together with part of my church family. I really feel that serving along side others is one of the best ways to get to know people. It is easier for me to talk when I am busy doing something and others just open up and share parts of their lives. You get to see members of immediate families interact and begin to understand more of who they are. So it was a really good day. The kids, both big and small had fun jumping and playing in the leaves. Tonight I am wondering if I have special leaf raking muscles because I am feeling muscles in places that I did not know I had them. But any slight discomfort I may have tonight just reminds me of the beautiful morning that I shared with part of my church family. I am looking forward to the Second Saturday in December (the 8th) when we get to serve side by side again.

Burrrrrr....

The weather man says that there is a chance of snow tomorrow. I say Burrrr..... I like the change of seasons but I am not ready for snow yet! The leaves are not even off of the trees. I did spend part of today getting ready for the colder weather. I put the lawn chairs into the attic and brought in the garden hose and closed all the vents around the house. I also got out the flannel jammies so I guess that I am prepared even though I am not mentally ready for snow.