Come And Knock On Our Door

Well, progress had been at a standstill, due to NES changing the meters out (last Wednesday), and then not turning them on. Called to take care of that today (turns out, all the contractor had to do was flip a switch, but we don't want to mess anything up!), so that heating and air can go in tomorrow. Fingers crossed! Frankly, I know more about the building of a home than I was ever interested in knowing. Still battling Suntrust, but it seems to be worked out. I'd feel better if I had "it's worked out" in writing!

Church continues to be a shelter. It's youth week, and the girls are being kept VERY busy. They are such sweet girls. Amanda, our youth minister, needed an extra driver for the scavenger hunt last night, and my girls didn't act too embarrassed to have me participate. Of course, they didn't want to be on my team. Too bad for them, because my team won! I doubt they would ever say it's okay for me to do it again, but that's okay, because I'm too old to be chasing teenagers around with a video camera in this heat! I am also a pretty poor sport, and they are constantly being reminded of the victory in my car! They go to the Sounds game tomorrow night, volunteer at Second Harvest Food Bank on Wednesday, and have their retreat Thursday-Saturday. We leave for Hilton Head on Sunday, so this should keep us occupied for a couple of weeks! Hopefully the rebuild will continue to progress while we're out of town.

I survived an evening of thunderstorms with very little trauma! I have to say that I did wonder, after being reminded of God's bet with the devil over Job, if a tornado would pick our house right up and carry it away. So far, so good. I was actually more concerned with Lisa Patton's cheerful interruption of The Bachelorette than I was with the storms. Nashville needed rain, and it did cool things off!

Things we now have: Insulation, doors to the patio, and a front door!! Yay!!!! (Possibly windows, too.) When we move back in, ya'll will have to come see us, and we'll try those doors out!

One odd thing did happen today. The Comcast people wanted to come collect their boxes. I couldn't seem to make the man understand that when I said our home was flooded, and we lost everything, that included his precious boxes! Next time, I'll take the time to swipe the river scum off of the cable boxes and put those in a special "keep for 2 months" pile!