November 14th - Just killing time while John is busy and my laundry is washing

November 14, 2008 Blog

So, this is our second Friday off. More or less – John and Len are helping Walt and Vern unload the gyproc for the house, as it arrived at 8:00 this morning.

I just realized I didn’t mentioned what our good buddy Len has been doing on my last blog. He has been busy doing whatever he can see needs doing and I didn’t follow him around to know… I do have a picture of him working on a trench so we all could walk around outside comfortably without stepping into water after the big rain…

There’s no way the house will be ready for an electrical/plumbing inspection by Monday. John was hoping to be boarding soon, but there’s simply too much to do before that can happen. We really need Paul, “our” plumber/electrician here!

We 3 ladies put the tail ends of insulation around the windows and doors and were out of work by noon on Thursday. We MUST remember to put all our tools that we have been using away before leaving the job site on Thursdays though, as it wasn’t really fair to the men to have to put all their tools away, and ours too. There were MANY hammers, staplers, knives and other small tools laying on the window sills etc. We just thought they would be left until Monday, but on actually thinking about it, we should have put them away!

We were spoiled with cooking this week – on Wednesday night we had soup supper at the Baptist Church, as mentioned in my last blog. Then Thursday night, we were invited to the Methodist Church for a soup supper which they were having before their business meeting. They said we didn’t have to stay for that!!! It was great. Had supper and DESSERT and then we were invited out to the Bible Encampment for dessert and a farewell party for the two couples from Manitoba who have been cooking out there, one from Elm Creek and the other from Carmen. The Project Managers there are very special people. Alec (AKA Fig Newton) had a second daily devotion about Silent Night, which we sang, (one verse in German by those who knew it) and we had a sort of a family Christmas together, which was really neat. After the devotion, they got the pianist to play some more hymns and Walt led the singing. Pretty good singing, too. They also had four different desserts - 3 cakes the cooks made and a big ice cream cake. I noticed almost everyone had a piece of each on their little dessert plate!!!! And that was AFTER we already had dessert. Oink oink.

I had another visit with my new friend, the cat lady (Patricia) on Thursday afternoon. She had more news about her home invasion Hallowe’en that was not good. She had understood that the guy that they had identified and picked up was going to plead guilty so that would be the end of it. However, it appears he is the son of their neighbour (who she did not know personally) and his mother says he was at the table in their home when this took place, so she is providing an alibi for him. There’s no doubt he is the perpetrator though and he is in jail because he had warrants out against him. Hopefully he will stay in jail. Poor Patricia is having nightmares and while she was often wary about the neighbourhood and going out at night, now she is downright afraid. Good thing she has friends who offer to come and pick her up and bring her home in the dark and make sure she gets into her house safely. She is on such a limited income that she has no place else to go. She owns her home and while it is in a very sad state of repair, it’s all she has. She’s only my age. I do hope to get a picture of her on her sundeck covered in cats!

Well, I guess I have gone on here long enough. John should be pooped by the time he gets back. Probably will be happy just to read for the rest of this day!

Love to you all. We are praying for Florette and her family as they say goodbye to their beloved Jules – prayer service tonight and funeral tomorrow.