This is a picture of our garage addition that Jeff is building, along with a little help from Eric and I. I, being the weaker vessel, am not able to lift too much and I definitely do not like heights. Jeff asked me to climb up an extension ladder to help him check if something was level. I reluctantly climbed up to the same rung of the ladder that he was on (except he was on another one about 8 feet away). As I waited there for him to be ready, I was watching him reach out away from the ladder to nail something and I got woosy! I felt that little dizzy feeling and a strange feeling in my stomach. Then he was ready and I had to reach out to grab the level from him ("panic") then he told me to see if this header was level. I looked up and realized that I would have to go up one more rung (Aaaah). But I did, and grasped onto another header that was nearby. I got that done and said, "Can I get down now?"
Now Eric wouldn't mind helping, but we don't want him to overdo it with his back. He helps when he can though. So we have our nephew, Ben come over. He is a great kid! I was so thankful he came to help because Jeff really needed it. It is pretty difficult to build a roof by yourself. But as I watched and handed them things they needed, I saw that Ben was a little nervous as well about being up high. But he sucked it up like a man and did what he had to do. I am just amazed at the young men our nephews (all of them) have become! You think about the cute little guys running around playing and the times they all tried to impress eachother with the things boys do and now look at them! Now they are flexing their muscles and pushing eachother around and wrestling and there is that manly bond. They even do this with their uncles and dads. They grow up, but yet they never grow up. :) I like it! It's so......neat!
I saw this on my friend Craig Dehut's blog. He is a recent graduate from film making school and his mission is to infiltrate the movie industry with good, wholesome movies that Christians want to see. He highly recommends this movie that is coming out on September 26th. It tells a story about a fire fighter that is having trouble with his marriage and turns to God for help. These are the movies we need to support!
Last week I woke up one morning and looked out my window and there was this layer of fog on the ground, but the sky was clear. It looked so beautiful I had to take some pictures. Of course it looked better in person. Here are a couple more.
It made me feel so peaceful. I looked up a couple verses that had to do with peace and this is what I found:
Psalm 85:10-11
"Love and faithfulness meet together; righteousness and peace kiss each other. Faithfulness springs forth from the earth, and righteousness looks down from heaven."
Psalm 119:165
"Great peace have they who love your law, and nothing can make them stumble."
Neil and Jacqie came up to Indiana to escape hurricane Gustav. They arrived Sunday evening around 7:00. I am really enjoying the time we have to be with them. They are expecting to leave Thursday morning. Neil wants to be back to work Friday to help his plant get things moving again. Their town of Slidell did not get any major damage. Some trees came down and put out power lines, but they don't know if their house received any damage. Neil's boss said he might drive over there to check for him if he has any downed trees, broken windows... That's nice of him. Their power was out for a couple days, but it is back on now. So they are hoping their food in their freezer might still be ok. We are going to go for lunch with Neil's grandparents this afternoon and I think Jacqie wants to go say goodbye to her family later on after tonight's bible class. We'll hate to see them go, but are thankful we got to see them.
I really wish Neil and Jacqie didn't live 15 hours away! It really makes it hard to just decide to go see them. It has to be a big planned out thing. With Eric having his back surgery this summer, he really can't handle a long drive like that for a while yet. We were thinking of maybe going in November for Thanksgiving. But that's 4 months away! (sigh)
Anyway, I was talking to Jacqie on the phone last week and she was telling me that she really hates to mow the lawn there. The bugs and creatures are horrendous! She said she was mowing the culvert area and you could just see all the cockroaches just scatter and bury themselves into the ground. Yuk! Then she also had a spider on her leg at one point and the flying insects are biting and flying around her head. Ugh! Then she went to put the mower back in the shed and there was a snake in there! And when she was watering her potted flowers, a gecko lizard jumped out and startled her! She said she's not really afraid of those, but it just suddenly came out. Sounds like Louisiana is not the place to live if you don't like bugs and creatures. (shutter)
