Today continues the great garage project - I figure about one more week of working out there and I'll be okay with it! We had some rain during the night and the gutters worked as they were supposed to - it is very nice to walk out the doors and not get dribbled on from the roof!
The girls both had very good mornings. We changed the teenagers routine a little so she could get a little more study time in the morning and day one of that went good enough. We'll see next week when we have company and she does it four or five days in a row how much "sunshine" she can ooze!!
The sun was out and it was very pleasant when the bus ran for the little one. After she got on the bus, I made a quick trip to Goodwill to donate some stuff out of the garage. Fortunately they have a 24 hour box about five miles from the house. I made it home before the teenager left.
Once both girls were gone for the morning, I cleaned up e-mails and got the Make a Difference ready for next week. I will admit I've been slacking a little bit on that - normally I'm 30 days ahead but I allowed it to run down some. I'll start building it back up again to stay ahead. I also took part of the morning to finish the PowerPoint and my notes for the Friday night program. We will be talking about part II of Joseph from the Old Testament and how he was trusted with God's vision to save the Hebrews well before the famine.
Just as I was getting ready to leave to run some errands, my wife had the chance to call and that always makes the day so very nice. So far, we've only had one day out of 39 where we were not able to talk. I doubt that streak lasts much longer but I'll take what I can get. She only had 30 minutes to talk but that was okay - allowed me to catch her up on all that is going on and let her know all was good here. And in all honesty, things are all good here.
After the phone call, I sent a quick e-mail to our family members to update them - my wife did have some news I needed to share with them - so I took care of that. Then it was off to run errands and to fix something.
The afternoon was spent in the garage. The main issue is moving the shelving I already have in the garage - in order to do that, I have to unload the shelves, put it on the floor, dismantle the shelves, clean them, re-assemble the shelves and star loading them back up. Some things are going up in the loft area, some in the garbage and some on the shelving. I'll just say that progress was slow today.
When the little one got home, we did her homework and then went to the dentist. Perhaps the best thing about our house is that we are probably one mile from everything - two or three at the most. A lot of folks might be able to say "go one mile and you're at the store" - we are actually one mile from the dentist office, one mile from the elementary school, one mile from a drug store, one mile from several fast food places, one mile from 7Eleven and other gas stations and one mile from the library/city center. We're two miles from church but that is okay. The only things that doesn't fit the one mile radius is Wal Mart - it is 1.5 miles away - and the high school - it is maybe 3 miles away. But, we had coordinated this morning exactly what was going to happen with the dentist. The first appointment was at 4pm which is exactly when the teenager gets home off the bus. The dentist is really great and they have a terrific theatre for kids to sit in and watch tv before/after their appointment. They also have the required dentist/doctor office oversized aquarium with colorful fish. I took the little one and got her appointment started, then ran back to the house to get the teenager. Then the cell phone rang and the teenager was still on the bus at 4pm - they had a substitute driver who was driving the route backward!! Of course on the day we needed to be coordinated - I told her to get off the bus at the next stop and I would get her. I grabbed her travel packet with floss, rinse, brush and toothpaste then drove back toward the dentist office - she had gotten off at a friend's house less than a half block from the dentist office - so that worked out well. Both girls had good checkups with zero cavities!! Almost as good news was the magazines in the waiting area were all relatively new!
We ran over to WalMart afterward to pick up one item that of course turned into three things - does anyone ever go into that place and get only the one item they went after?? The girls were hungry so we stopped at Applebee's for supper. We've only been in this Applebee's three times and each time we've had the same waitress - fortunately she is perhaps the best waitress I've ever had anywhere so that made for a pleasant dining experience.
Once we got home, I worked in the garage for another 30 minutes then the rain really started coming down and we had thunder so I decided to come inside the house. We dusted all the rooms and ran the vacuum. I installed the new roman shade in the master bath and it looks very nice plus it enhances the room as well.
The girls devotion was "I should have listenend" referencing Hebrews 1:1-2 - it talked about a little girl who went to Florida without a jacket - basically the story was about being prepared and listening to adults. My devotion yesterday was "Have a message and be one" referencing 2 Timoth 4:2. My devotion tonight was "Vision" referencing Acts 26:19. Just as I was getting ready to shut down the computer for the evening, I wound up exchanging e-mails with the pastor regarding the bus ministry and some enhancements to the church grounds.
The rain continued to fall as we close out Day Thirty Nine. Here's looking forward to Day Forty!!
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