August 1 – “Walking Ready”

We did some serious walking yesterday.  9,138 steps.  That is roughly equivalent in my phone app to 4.3 miles.  Chris has her new benchmark now.  Why is she so intent on this?  Sure, part of it is about health and losing weight and all that positively wonderful stuff.  But really?  We are doing our best to get “walking ready” for our church trip to Branson, Missouri the first week of October.  We’re going to see the Moses show, along with a few others.  Oh, and we’re also supposed to spend some time in Silver Dollar City.  Never been to any of those places, so it will all be a new adventure for us.  We started the walk by heading over to Nathan’s to let the dogs out.  Then we took a circuitous adventure route through some of the neighborhoods over in his neck of the woods.  I was excited.  We met Clara Barton … Street.  Back in our neighborhood, we walked the four streets to add another mile.  By then we still weren’t up to four, though, so we walked back over to Nathan’s to let the dogs back inside.  Can’t have the dogs outside in the heat … the heat that we were walking around in … on purpose.  By the time we got back home we had the four miles.  Chris was still upset, though.  She wanted four miles AND 10,000 steps.  She was ready to go back out.  We didn’t. 

The building process on 40 Steps is progressing quite rapidly.  Yesterday they completed preparations for the garage foundation.  By that I mean it’s ready for concrete to be poured.  Not sure when that could happen, though, because the only route to the garage (It’s behind the house) is blocked by all the lumber waiting to be applied to the rest of the house.  And speaking of the rest of the house, the carpenters were hard at work there as well.  They chopped off and carved the pilings so they could hammer in the boards that will serve as floor joists.  That entire layer of joists appears to be completed already.  This thing will be done before you know it. 

I made a few phone calls yesterday.  I talked to a guy who owns a business here in town.  He came by the church the other day and offered to work with us on a fundraiser.  Looks like you be seeing a Frios Pops cart around Seaside in the near future, at least for a few weeks.  He’s donating 20% of his profits to the church to go towards the mulch we still need to purchase. 

The other phone call was to the company that produces chairs for worship centers.  We are buying 100 new chairs and are finally retiring the stackable pews.  If you know anyone who wants them, give me a call or an email.  They can have them if they will just come pick them up.  The deal we got was pretty amazing.  100 chairs plus card holders for 50 of them plus two hand carts for moving them (one of them was given to us for free).  All for less than $4,000.  Not a bad bargain.  They are to be delivered sometime the middle of next week, so we will need some able bodies to help carry them inside the building.  Any takers?

1 Peter 2:1 says, “Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind.”

Father, thank you for the great deal we got on those chairs.  Pretty exciting.  Help us to stay focused on you and your kingdom as we do all this purchasing.  We want to spend your money wisely.  Amen.