A Little Progress

Happy Sabbath

I have been enjoying a great week off from work and am thankful that I was able to get a lot done around the house.  I mowed the lawn about twice, made a new garden bed for the front lawn, fixed the gutters, edged, dug holes for fence posts, planted some gladiolus flowers, and cleared out brush and poison ivy to reclaim a good corner of my yard. 

I also put down carpet and tile and got my activity room set up (no longer office) and have been spending a lot of my time in this room.  I cleared out more stuff from the guest room, finally finished painting my bathroom and touching up fixtures, and finished putting up backsplash tile in my kitchen.  Now if I could just get the folding ladder to the attic fixed, I could get up there, put some more support beams and flooring and have a whole new room upstairs.  It would be nice to have a spiral stair case instead of the ladder steps.  So much to do, so little money though.  My son loves the activity room.  We have an entire wall that is all chalk board and I picked up dustless chalk markers after he had an asthma attack from the regular chalk.  I have masks for him to wear if he needs to use the regular chalk for any reason, but I love the room. 

I am thankful that my plants are doing well.  It will drop into the 30’s tomorrow night so I hope they will survive but my grapevine which I thought was lost has come back.  The cold keeps kicking it into dormancy.  Everything has sprouted except for the eggplant and sweet potato, but I know the sweet potato will be okay and overflowing with vines next month.  I have one thai hybrid hot pepper peeking through, a sweet salad mix growing well,  roma tomatoes, honey dew plants, bunching onions, squashes , morning glories and more growing in my back yard.

I am thankful for a thriving garden.

I am thankful that the Lord stopped me from doing something so stupid yesterday.  I had cleaned out my crock pot and it’s the kind where you can remove the cooking pot from the heating base.  I dried the pot and I don’t know where my head was.  I got a container and put some water in it because I wanted to slow cook some mixed veggies.  I had plugged up the heating mechanism and without thinking was about to pour the water into the heating mechanism.  I stopped and realized I needed to put the cooking pot inside and I was looking as I was surprised not a drop left the container I was holding and landed into the electrically charged heating mechanism.  That thing could have exploded in my face.  It could have burned the circuit along that wall.  My mind was not there.  All I can say is thank you because if not for God, what it could have been. 

I’m still praying about getting a second job.  I need it.  My dad told me of an opportunity in town and he thought I would act as if it were beneath me.  I went the next day picked up an application and returned it the day after.  I haven’t heard anything from anyone but I will keep applying. 

I am thankful for this time off, for getting things I have been putting off for weeks finally completed, and for a thriving garden and amazing looking home and yard.  I am thankful that I have time to enjoy it and be useful at church.  I am going out with my church to a nursing home in a half hour.  My son is coming along for the first time and I hope he will be on is best behavior (he is usually quite horrible so here’s hoping). 

I pray that you have a wonderful Sabbath and a blessed new week.