Changing modes – from building to cleaning

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We move next week – Monday to be precise.

Up until this point everything has been towards renovation.  Getting things ready to put tables and chairs into a room that is newly reset.

Now I’m in the mode of cleaning up things so that we can move.

Are we finished our renovations?  Not by a long shot, or a short one as well.

But we are ready to be in the house and working out of the house as our place of both refuge and our place of advancement.  I’m looking forward to these next few weeks as we complete work and go back to “work.”

Cementing

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A quick comment for an extended work period! 

In order to get the basement bathroom coordinated and to have a larger utility room in our new home, we had to move some plumbing.  In the basement floor.

Which meant jackhammering out concrete, placing new pipes and finally replacing the concrete.

That was yesterday’s job.  Backfilling around the pipes was the afternoon.  The evening was smoothing out the area for cementing and the actual cementing.

I have not done a lot of cementing, but I was amazed how much I remembered from my father’s projects.  Our evening ended at 2:00 in the morning.

In the end, the cement is in place and will be cured in the next few days.

Hallelujah!

Plumbing inspection

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Today the new sewer lines get inspected.

Our plumber knows that they have to be done just right.  Both he and I know the inspector – a real stickler but fair. 

So, early this morning – around 6:30 – our plumber was by the house to make sure things are in place.  There are a few more lines to attach, and then he needs to be at the house when the inspection takes place.

The basement is a marvel.  Three weeks ago there were all sorts of plumbing lines run helter skelter.  A bathroom that was just across the hall from the shower.  An upstairs bathroom that seemed to have the fixtures in the wrong place. 

The renovation has required a jackhammer (which I rather enjoyed), new ABS piping, and a whole lot of planning and revision as we have gone along.  The Town even found out that we had a water line coming into our house that was unmetered.  That was fixed!!

Our day will be exciting – we hope of have permission to recement the basement floor by tonight and the next phase comes next!!

In my daily reading

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Today the reading was on transitions.  The devotional writer spoke of the transition a professional athlete has to make when he “retires.”

The emphasis was on not doing it all your way, but seeking for help.  The help described was God – the first and primary point of call.

I have found in my life also, that God is first.  But after that, you’d better be open for your fellow lifeboat members to give you a hand.

They will bail for you, tell you when storms are approaching, even relieve you of a night watch so you can get some respite.

Chose your companions well.  Life will be so much better!