Stuck with it – for now

This weekend I concentrated on getting the large cabinets ready for their intended uses. One of them had to be cut for the double oven and the other for the extra two drawers that had to be cut out of the opening for the double oven. I elected to do that instead of sheetrock work because we were going to get a couple quotes on the sheetrock. Unfortunately, that did not work out too well.

The one man from BBTI bowed out because classes are soon to begin. One person we called was not available and the one we did have come over Sunday afternoon gave me a price I could not afford. I understand the price. It takes a lot of repeat trips to get sheetrock done. Each trip requires time and time is money to an independent contractor. I was a little disappointed, but I do understand. So, as it stands now, I will be doing the sheetrock. It will take me until the end of next month to get it done –providing my shoulder holds out.

Additionally, we have had no calls on the car. We are still praying the Lord sells it for us but I am not going to go to great length to advertise it. We continue to post it on Craigslist but I am not going to pay to advertise it in the local paper. Mama and I have never been successful sellers. It is not in either or our makeup and from the beginning I did not know if the Lord was in the process or not, but we had to try, and to her credit, Mama was willing. It has been a successful exercise on many fronts, just not on the sale of the car – yet.

We still have the big dogs because Mama cannot decide what she wants to do concerning them. She finally admitted that she only wanted to get rid of them to make way for another set of big dogs. She and Victoria want to start over and hopefully get more training in when the dogs are little. We missed that time when the big dogs were pups because we did not live on the farm at the time and we had to isolate them due to a run in with a skunk early on. I do not know if it would have made a difference, but Mama and Victoria think that way.

I got diesel for the tractor early Saturday since Mama has been using it to brush hog the pastures. Even though the seven foot cut of the brush hog makes a sizable swath through the weeds and tall grass covering the meadows it takes quite a bit of time to get the mowing done because there is a lot of land to cover. She has been making some headway and where she has cut the weeds it looks pretty good. As a consequence of being in the dust from that process she got something in her eye and it scratched the eyeball, giving her some pretty severe pain.

We went to Wal-Mart one evening to get some solution to flush and lubricate the eye and within a few days she was feeling better. Saturday she spent the entire morning out on the tractor. It is easy to tell where she has been working, but it is equally easy to see just how much there is yet to do.

At times like these we really miss Grandpa’s help. We will each eventually get the things done that seem to be taking too long to get done at this point and little steps forward are their own reward when the task at hand is great. We just have to keep pressing forward without taking too much time to admire our work – until it is done.

That will be some time away.

Pray for Maggie. She is only weeks away from giving birth. These last weeks are the most uncomfortable and Maggie is doing her best to deal with it. For now, she will have to stay pregnant regardless of the discomfort. That part of having a child will be over soon and the real work will begin.

We are all pretty excited.