Always Learning

T loves to help out and learn how to do practical things. A pic of T helping cut extra support boards for the deck. Just want to give a little added support to our original boards.  

Hindsight is 2020 (Pun intended)

Well, we went and got our first load of deck boards with the van today. We also got some support boards as well and they came in to the tune of $450. I think that included the bucket of screws we got but that only covers maybe half the deck. The deck boards were twice the price ($23 a board, I think🤔 ) of what they were a few weeks ago when we went to check the pricing🙄. Just another thing we can thank the pandemic of 2020 for😡. With us not anticipating the cost to be that high that kinda threw us somewhat. It has to be done though so just another cost we are eating😞. 

Front Door

This is after two coats of paint. It’s currently drying but looks great. It’s giving a fresh new look to the house. Once we put a new storm door on it will look even sharper. Once it’s dry we will decide weather it needs a third coat or not. 

My Fighter

T is constantly trying to improve and get better. He’s had a lot of bad habits to have to break from former training before he was with the coaches he’s with now. It’s a constant battle to get new habits formed in him to replace the bad habits. This video is a good moment from his training. 

Back Door

Back door got damaged from the water the house took on while we had no gutters and the issues we were having with the roofers and our roof being open to the elements for 7 days. And as with everything so far, we go to replace the door and we have sheet rock fall apart as we were taking the framing off to take the door out. There’s always more challenges to deal with along with trying to get a task done. We are praying there are no more issues to have to deal with. We just keep finding things and that’s frustrating for us. It is also equally frustrating that we can’t feel safe in our own home because of the water damage that happened to it😞. 

This first picture is the lower part of the door that crumbled in Scot’s hands as he was taking the framing off. The framing has mold spores building on it so it will have to be replaced. 

This picture shows how wet the sheet rock is half way up the door where the frame used to be.  As you know sheet rock holds water and falls apart like you saw in the first picture. 

Keep us in your prayers as we deal with the problems that have been popping up from the water damage. Pray in agreement with us. Pray for an expedient and excellent job to be done in repairing all the problems. That our home is restored to what it was before all this damage happened to it. And also pray that with the rains that will be coming in from the hurricane that we have no more leaks coming into our home. Pray for the Lord to give us favor in getting all that needs to be done done. Pray that He works on the hearts of the workers and staff of the company that even if they are meaning to do harm that the Lord will turn it around for our good and His glory. Thank you!  

In The Meantime

In the meantime while we wait we are replacing old outside light fixtures that are rusted through. Getting the new back door ready to be installed on the house. Organizing the house some more. And just taking care of odds and ends that need doing around the house. It’s crazy times we’re living in. If not for the pandemic I’d have been hard pressed to be here to help with all of this cause I’d have still been traveling for training/tournaments. At least everything is getting taking care of now though. 

I stood on the inside because there was yet another wasp nest. Scot killed it though. 

Drip Edge Replacement and Interior Mediation Update

Called this morning to get things lined out for the roofers to come back and replace the drip edge all around the house because it got damaged when the gutter guys had to redo facia wood and wraps that they did wrong. They are still getting things ironed out with the mediation company to get the inside of the house taken care of where water got in. #tryingtobepatient 

Internet Issues...

The internet company had an outage in the area this morning. It took us until moments ago to get it back working. T can now get his school work done for the day. #challenges #takingitinstride 

My Boy is turning into a Man😢

T doesn’t like when I take these kinds of pictures. Puberty has hit full fledge at our house with him. So many changes. The biggest is his torso and his hip bones. The boy is growing and changing a ton. 

Gutters Are On!!!

The gutter crew came and got the gutters and new downspouts on. The machine they use to make the gutters is so cool:

The white material on the reels comes out up at the front of the machine to form a gutter. See below:

Such a cool machine. The new gutters look fantastic as you’ll see in the pics. What was more impress though was that the new downspouts are some much bigger than the old. Take a look:

Now the roofers have to come back out and fix all the drip edges. So we will be waiting for them to come and fix that. Not sure when that will happen. We are also still waiting approval on getting the crew out here to fix that side of the house as well. We are praying that they work with us to get this done and done right and that we don’t have to have our attorney get involved.