Urgent prayer request

Please lift this baby and family in prayer. We have attended church with them and their family and love them all lots. Their baby was early but has done so well until now. Here is the blog. http://thankfulfortennyson.blogspot.com/2007/10/i-will-praise-you-in-storm.html. The parents are Travis and Lindsay Myers. Thanks so much!

Winterizing the room

Jeff got the heater working today and Paul did the insulation in the ceiling. We should be moving in in a couple of weeks or less. The heat/ac unit is like those used it motels. It is nice and quiet in operation. We went to a garage sale today and I got two bags of nice winter clothes for a dollar a bag. I said I thought God led us to that particular sale.

Alexis finds a new place to hang out

Our timid sheltie spends the majority of her time in a corner in front of the entrance to the new addition. We wondered where she was going to choose as her new spot, once we had the door on and we were going in and out of the new addition. The picture Mark took tells it all. The new spot is in the opposite corner. Paul painted the room and hung and painted the remaining doors and all of the base board. We are very happy with it! We will try to post pictures when we get them taken. Next step is carpet!

Room update

Paul put primer on the walls today. Yesterday, we did some shopping for the room and picked out outdoor lights that were even on sale at Mernards. Mark took pictures of the walls and the new lights. We had a full day yesterday with shopping and meeting with our new doctor. We really like our new MD. He seemed very concerned and made sure he addressed all of our concerns. We hope Dr. Jura stays around for a long time because it seems we just find one we like and they leave. We did take time to eat lunch out and took a walk at Riverfront Park in hopes of seeing fall leaves. There was not as much fall foliage as we had hoped but we had a great day. Here are some pictures of the room from today.

Hubbard Happenings

Paul said today that he was hoping to put the primer on the drywall Wednesday, which is exciting! Mark is taking a vacation day tomorrow so we can meet with our new MD for the first time. Our NP's office is closing and she moved to another one but we were ready for a change anyway. I am having trouble with being able to stay warm and I think that I just need to learn to dress differently for fall than when I weighed significantly more than I do now. Otherwise, life is good and God is better.

Room update

Paul has taped and is in between mudding the drywall. I think he has done it twice and is letting it dry. It won't be long until painting and carpeting begin! We will need to have either a ramp or steps that go to the new addition because it is higher than the existing. We originally thought a ramp but the area is so small that we may have to do steps (2) because a ramp would be too steep. It would have hand rails on both sides and I plan to have a walker for the addition and one for the existing part of the house so I do not have to negotiate steps with the walker. We might devise a plan so that I can put laundry in a basket through an opening into the addition on a shelf. It would be in the laundry room. I made bean soup in the crock pot yesterday and while it was cooking my Aunt Shelly came down and we had lunch and did some shopping. I got three long sleeve shirts at the DAV thrift store. Last night we had friends that wanted to see the room so I had invited them to eat dinner with us. It was a great night for bean soup and cornbread!

A huge praise to a Holy and Awesome God

Today, Paul's wife had come to clean up the new addition some for Paul. We got to eat lunch and visit some when I received a call and it was Mark. He was calling from Occupational Health which is where his company sends people when there is an incident. He had been shocked when the conveyor belt on one of the machines was not starting and he set the reset button and then touched the plug in (thank God the rubber piece and not the metal) and was shocked, This is a 480 volt machine and we know that beyond a shadow of a doubt, God saved him from death from electrocution. He let go of the plug in and just had a tingling in his arm and some black on his hand and he was checked out at the doctor at Occupational Health to be fine!!. Praise the Lord Mark is alive and well!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We have a door!!

Paul worked so hard yesterday (he always works hard) and got the door and frame in and the laundry room window out. I was so happy to have an indoor passage!! The camera needed batteries and we had to get those tonight and I took a picture of it. Dusty gets his second hair cut tomorrow and since it grows so fast, we will probably have it cut pretty short. I bought him a sweater so he will stay warm but we will see how that goes. He is in the "chewing" stage and he and Lacie share toys. His teeth must be sharper than hers because he has chewed holes in some of Lacie's toys. Lacie has plenty toys to spare and it is a good thing Dusty can't get her new ball in his little mouth. He requires pretty close supervision right not. Here is the long awaited door! The outside is done also with the exception of some more concrete and so this is a view from the back.

more drywall

I believe the dry wall is almost done and that tomorrow will be the day we put the door on the opening to the new room, making it possible to go from the kitchen to the new addition without going outside and around. I have waited for this step for a long time and hope to have pictures of the "event". The progress is great and exciting.

Drywall and dog shows

Paul has started getting drywall up on the walls. The picture is of the first piece being put up. Saturday we attended a costume contest for dogs and this is my sister -in- laws shitzu, dressed as a pirate. We have entered the contest in the past when we had our other set of poodles (Cocoa and Buffy) but not with Lacie and Dusty. Sunday was the Thank-you and good bye meal for our Pastor. It was sad and I came home very tired. I started a new Beth Moore study on the book of Daniel, during the Sunday School hour and also I take a class on Tuesday's that is a Basic Bible class (kind of like Walk through the Bible). I have lots of homework!

lights and insulation!

We have lights!!! So far, this is the extent of the use of the electricity but there will probably be another outlet put in tonight! Paul has a lot of the insulation up and put in cable and telephone hook-ups yesterday. I volunteered at a Health Fair this morning for the American Red Cross. The ARC gives out free smoke detectors and batteries and will come and install and change them for free and we were trying to get the word out about that and it was mainly senior citizens attending it and so that was good. We also had pamplets about disaster preparedness kits. My job was to initial their paper saying that they had visited our booth while my co-volunteer talked with them. I think they had a drawing for those who visited all the booths and turned in their papers. This was an answer to prayer because I so wanted to be use full but there is sometimes a communication barrier between me and others who do not know my speech and especially if they have any trouble hearing. I enjoyed the experience!

We have a ceiling!!

We passed the electrical inspection on the first try and Paul and his son Paul put the entire ceiling up today!!! It was a great day!!!