"Flexibility" is the word

Today, Jake and John hauled the fifth wheel to the storage place in Sulphur and he tried to use our credit card and it wouldn't go through. So he had to use cash and borrow some from Jake at that. I tell you we have had more than enough with this credit card. So I called them today to find out what the heck is going on. She said the card has not been activated. I told her we HAD activated it the end of January but that we had told them we were not going to use it until we came home. She said she had the record of the call that we were travelling frm LA to Alberta (????????NOT). I had called them yesterday to change our address to back home and let them know we would be using the card today and on our way home.... Anyway, we got it activated and hopefully can use it now. What on earth good is a credit card that never works when you try to use it?????????

We have not been having a great week. We found out on Monday that the Blanchards tried to get insurance on their house and an occupancy certificate. The county inspector advised that the pillars are not high enough. [See photo of Paul on new website update doing electrical work on old pillars]. This is after there has been a stairway put up to the back and a 66 foot handicap ramp on the side(which our volunteers were very proud of because it was a work of art!!!! They both have to come down, the house has to go up, and another 2 1/2 feet has to be added to all of the 16 pillars, plus extra steps added to the stairway and a further 30 feet of ramp. WE WERE ALL JUST SICK. Jake was here at the time, but he was not involved in the elevations, and in any event, is not an engineer to understand what was required. The building was inspected a couple of times and nobody said anything. It was absolutely unfathomable news! None of us are staying to fix it, but the Cameron group had already torn both steps and ramp down by yesterday. That was tough to see! MDS is rectifying the situation. There are no words to tell the volunteers who lovingly built that ramp that it had to be torn down.

We have had to test our flexibility this week. Plans change from minute to minute it seems. First we didn't have a place to store the RV in Sulphur and were going to store it in Johnson Bayou, then a place became available, and Jake had to pull it over for us. Tomorrow we were supposed to have 2 home dedications, one at 10:00 a.m. and one at 2:00. Now they've changed the second one to 11:30, so the Project Managers and their friends can head out right away after that to take the MDS vehicles back to Mississippi for storage and then go home to Portage La Prairie.

Ivan is planning Archie's home dedication. Because of the changes in time, there probably will only be us there (it had been tentatively scheduled for 2:00 pm, but is a private dedication rather than a regular MDS dedication for a new home.

We were going to stay until Friday, but if we can leave by about 1:00, we will go tomorrow too.

I MISS MY COMPUTER DESK AND MY RADIO!!! Otherwise, being back in the cramped motorhome is okay. I should have brought more dishes, as I only took out the bare minimum.

I was in shorts today!!!! And soon I have to bring out my winter jacket...