October 22, 2009

• These things are mere bagatelles, I try to remind myself.

  Totally unimportant in light of eternity.  Compared to what others go through, little pinpricks.

  It really isn’t anything huge.  There have been a couple of wrinkles with regard to the new room….one, the van won’t fit if the hall is built (I kept wondering about that), so the doorway will be on the wall next to the window.  It’s necessitated a good deal more electrical work, seeing as how there was a plug and a phone line there.  The loss of the little hallway is a pity, but I don’t want to part with my van in favor of getting a smaller car that would fit. 

  The sheetrock and insulation is up, so this is out-of-date, but here’s a photo of Jessica pointing to the new room, with Bridgette looking on:

  

  A window has been put in the wall facing out, BTW, to facilitate a hasty departure in the event of a fire or something.

  Second, it’s been raining virtually all day, at times quite hard, and to our dismay the carpet in the master bedroom is soaked along the outside wall.  It’s done this before – many years ago – and we thought it was fixed.  Guess not.  There’s also water half-way into the new room, meaning there’s a big problem with drainage on that side.  Don wrestled with that over and over throughout the years.  Now it’s raising its head again!  Argh!  Kenny’s thinking a trench needs to be dug, with maybe some pipe to drain off rain water.  He’ll look at it tomorrow morning.

  The cats drive me absolutely bonkers but they do provide a great deal of amusement.  The other night Magellan and Dracula were outside with me on the back porch and their attention was certainly caught by something; you never saw such intense regard as the two of them were showing for whatever was out there:

  

  The pair of them sat like that for several minutes, utterly enthralled.  Never could see anything to warrant such dedicated attention.  Here’s a photo of Simba and, I’m pretty sure, Sarah, in one of the kitchen windows:

  

  If anyone has any suggestions as to how to keep cats off kitchen counters, I’d love to hear them.  Picking them up and forcefully dumping them on the floor has zip effect, particularly on those two. 

  Bridgette kept Jessica up a good deal of last night, and late this afternoon I found the two of them dead to the world in the living room:

  

  Last night at my small group one of the women mentioned the preschool at McKinney Bible Church, and this morning I emailed them, asking if there was room for Bridgette.  The lady in charge of it called after a little bit, Jessica and I  – along with the prospective “student” -  hurried over to look at it, and Bridgette’s set to start on Monday!  She had to be pried away from where some children her age were playing.  The woman who gave us the tour said our timing was perfect, as a spot had just come open when my email arrived!

  It’s the LORD’s timing, of course. 

  Dmitry took his English TAKS test yesterday, the math test today, and has the science test tomorrow.  I’ve been praying fervently for the LORD to somehow manage to let Dmitry pass those bothersome tests, never mind by how tiny a margin.

  Tomorrow night I’m going with Elaine and Beth (with two now-extra tickets, as Dmitry and Carolyn aren’t going after all) to the Nokia theater to see Third Day!  They’re one of my favorite contemporary Christian musical groups.  Should be fun (assuming the rain stops). 

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