Another beautiful day here, but almost to warm. Last nights low was 48 and so far today the high has been 75. Late yesterday afternoon I was sitting on the front porch and noticed that the thermometer showed 80. The front porch gets warm as the sun starts going down.
It was supposed to start raining yesterday but so far no rain. Rain is in the forecast everyday until Thursday.
Friday was our volunteer day at the Habitat Re-Store. Kathy didn't go because she was babysitting Lydia so that Kelsey could get some sleep after her 4 straight 12 hour shifts. I went in early so that I could run a couple of errands. I intended on going to both Menards and Tractor Supply before going to "work". My time at Menards was laughable. I'm not exaggerating a bit when I say that it took the guys in the yard over 15 minutes to find some pieces of vinyl siding starter strips. They knew that they had 60 of the 12'-6" long pieces some place but they sure had a hard time finding them. The trip to Tractor Supply had to wait until after "work".
Saturday we worked on Kelsey and Andy's house for about 4 hours. We finished putting out the foam board insulation on the exterior of the kitchen wall. We also installed the starter strips and most of the "J" channel so that we are almost ready to put the vinyl siding back up where the wall was removed when they remodeled the kitchen. For lunch we had pork steaks (3/4" thick and big enough so that there was hardly room for anything else on the dinner plate) that were awesome. Kelsey cooked them on the grill.
Yesterday afternoon I stacked some of the wood I've cut over the past several days. Our wood pile size is on the increase. It is warm enough now so that what I cut the past week, not that much, will be more than enough to last us the rest of the heating season. One problem is that a bunch of what I cut is "junk". I wasn't thinking when I dumped it in a pile. Now I have a pile of junk wood right where I want to be able to start stacking next winters good wood. Not a big deal. I think I can move the junk around to the end of the boiler enclosure and stack it there. For the remainder of the season I don't think we shouldn't need more heat that what we can get from the junk wood.
We had an enjoyable time at church this morning. The people in the Sunday School class we attend are fun and interesting. We had another good "guest Pastor" today. One of his points started with a story about an immigrant coming to America. The man only had enough money for a ticket and some cheese and crackers to eat during the 7 days the trip would take. His "room" was close to the dining room and the smells coming from all the great food about drove him crazy. Finally on his last evening he sought out the Captain. He told the Captain that he would do anything if he could just have one of the meals from the dining room. The Captain looked at him quizzically and told him that the cost of the meals were included in his ticket price. Brother Bickel related this to what we are offered when we accept Christ and live as a Christian. Some (many) of us don't take advantage of the "riches" we are offered. These are not necessarily monetary riches, but what is worth more than the peace of knowing that the Creator of the universe cares for us and has promised peace of mind for those who follow Him.
The NASCAR race is close to over. Time to get out and get a little fresh air.
Hope you all had a great day. May God bless you and yours.
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