August 23 – “Impending”

Oh boy.  We are once again watching the Gulf.  Looks like a storm is heading our way.  Ninety percent chance of formation today.  It’s supposed to hit Texas this weekend.  That will be interesting.  I have a wedding combined with a 50^th anniversary vows renewal scheduled for Saturday evening.  Outside.  Sure hope the hotel can provide some help.  Some inside help.  That is, if the couples decided to still come.  Ah, life on a tropical island paradise.

40 Steps report of the day … the insulation truck arrived, and by evening they were done.  They even insulated under the house.  That one kind of surprised us.  Oh, it needed to be done.  We just didn’t expect them to actually do it on what is destined to be a government rent house for the next fifteen years.  The siding guys were there, too, but apparently they are still stalled out waiting for delivery of the last window, a big one in the front of the house.  Same story for the deck builders, but they at least got one side of the deck done and were able to tear down the temporary steps.  The guy told us the only reason the temporary steps were there was because the inspectors refuse to climb a ladder to enter a house.  Hmm.  Oughta tell you something there, guys.  Speaking of ladders, the shingles were also delivered, and the roofers followed soon after.  They got a good start before the rain began.  Should have known it would rain.  Kind of a law.  Roofing begins, rain begins.

Cailyn stayed with us for a while so April could go get a tooth filled.  She introduced us to Elly, her brand new doll.  Apparently it is something really special.  She had to order it and have it shipped.  Looks pretty real except it never opens its eyes.  Sleeps all the time.  I guess that explains why it arrived with bed head hair.  Quite a bit for a newborn, too.  Maybe it needs a shampoo or something.  It has a really pudgy body, so it makes for good cuddling.  Cailyn and Chris had to do some surgery on its eyelashes to glue them back down on one side.  But you know what?  As strange as that thing looks, Cailyn is in love.  Her Mommy instincts are in overdrive right now.  Guess we’ll let it stick around.

1 Peter 4:11 says, “If anyone speaks, he should do it as one speaking the very words of God. If anyone serves, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen.”

Father, we ask for your protection for wherever that impending storm might hit.  Amen.