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January 28, 2008
you probably already know this, but...
Why do we borrow money and give it to countries that don't need it?
So I don't claim to know who the Incontiguous Brick is, but he makes a good point. I was at wordpress.com this morning to publish some of our intern blogs and found this article staring me in the face. I thought you should all read it too.
Don't bother with the comments, they'll just get you angry, but the blog itself raises some really Good Questions as to why we (the USA in general and US Taxpayers in particular) send so much freaking money to Israel to support their habit of blowing up homes of Palestinians - most of whom are innocent and many of whom have more history in the land than do the soldiers who are forcing them from their beds and homes.
Here's a prayer request I received this morning from a student at the Bethlehem Bible College. He was here a year ago with the choir and they sang in our office. One of my colleagues has kept in contact with him:
>>> 1/28/2008 9:17 AM >>>
i was going home from the bible college and there was Israeli soldiers and lots of Jeeps provented me to go in the way of my home, so one person asked me to stay there for a while, until this israeli attack finish ...
so am here now for almost 2 hours hearing shooting and bombs all over AND I WAS TRYING TO CALL HOME (few) AND THERE WAS NO ANSWER !!!!!!!!!!!!!
in the end my mom called me and told me that ....... many Israeli armed soldiers entered our home and THEY PUT ALL MY FAMILY IN ONE ROOM AND THEY TOOK THE WHOLE HOUSE UNTIL THEY WILL DESTROY A HOUSE NEXT TO ME ...
so at this moment one or more family will have no home in this very cold weather or shelter and my family and me don't know when this thing going to finish ...
SO PLZ PRAY NOW NOW NOW... i wish i have a picture to show you how scary it is ...
I LOVE YOU ALL AND LETS TRUST GOD FOR A MIRACLE
your host for this episode : carrie; 09:52 AM | Comments (0)
January 27, 2008
Cramped Quarters
We spent the weekend (friday and saturday) working more on our broom closet project.
Friday was spent priming the doors, etc and building the boxes for the file cabinet drawers, and then Saturday started the fun of beginning the install... First we had to add the outlets in the back wall, so that we can house the computer network stuff in there, and then the fun of trying to get square pegs in a rhombus shaped hole ensued...
That space behind the door is really small if you are crouched in there all day long! believe me. And getting things square in an old house is REALLY frustrating too.
Finally at about 11 PM we called it quits for the night! here's where we left off.
Next for the fun of building the REST of the cabinet frames and then hanging the doors. I can hardly wait!
Oh wait, my back is telling me that I better wait before I jam myself in that tight space again...
your host for this episode : dan; 10:18 AM | Comments (1)
January 15, 2008
look what i did!
i got a Lot done today, including the removal of the christmas tree And emptying and removal of the trim pieces from that space where the new cabinet goes. And i caulked the seams of the doors and drawer front so they'll look nicer once they're painted. here'a a couple pics.
that second one's a close up of the top step where the trim went. notice the Cliff on the edge of the linoleum. the trim was put on right after the subfloor - before the underlayment and the present flooring. and nailed in place with two 3" nails on each stud. Rahr!! I'm wonderwoman. i only broke one piece of three - and it's not going back up!
and this is the floor i so badly want to keep. it's cushioned, y'all. cushioned linoleum. when i first saw the house i thought it was carpet. in the kitchen. too bad the redo takes out a wall.
your host for this episode : carrie; 04:15 PM | Comments (1)
January 12, 2008
the kitchen project continues...
captains log. 10:54pm. the fronts are Done. for real? did we really? paint goes on tuesday.
your host for this episode : carrie; 10:54 PM | Comments (0)
Grandpa Hank
One Dapper Young Man.
That's my granddad. Henry H Heeres, born 12 May 1919. We visited with him just before Christmas, with his "new" wife Kathryn. They've been married now just over 6 years, ages-old friends who lost their spouses to time and decided to grow old together. He'll be 89 in May.
I found this picture up on the shelf in the dining room next to all the photos of kids and grandkids and Great grand kids...
He's now in the hospital. He went in to the doc on Wednesday with a sore heart. The doc admitted him and said it's a mild case of congestive heart failure and pneumonia. "Mild failure"? I don't get it. They've got him under observation and have been running lots of tests to try to figure out how to get his heart running on all cylinders again.
I'm proud of my granddad.
your host for this episode : carrie; 11:27 AM | Comments (0)
the kitchen project begins...
and where else to begin but with the cabinet behind the basement stairs? this, my friends, we call "the Trial Run".
this is where it goes, and the chaos it replaces:
this is what it will look like:
this is where we're at now:
oh, yeah, and the saw is Unplugged when dan is sticking his finger in there lining up the dado blade and fence to cut the rabbits... the pile of sticks you see is a pile of door/drawer frames with dados cut in them. learn something new every day. vocabulary. bah.
so, whaddya think?
your host for this episode : carrie; 11:06 AM | Comments (1)