After living in the bush for nearly ten years, I thought that seeing a barge in the Bay was pretty commonplace...until I saw the barge pulling in last night (two days late)! I was SO excited! Why? Because that barge carries my flooring, appliances and furniture! In short, nearly everything we need to make the house our home! I can hardly wait! The flooring guy is ready to go as soon as the container with the flooring in it is located. The lights are all installed, with the exception of the hanging light in the stairwell. That one somehow got turned around in Anchorage by Fed-Ex. It is supposedly on its way back here...we will see!
I would like to ask you all to pray hard for something, please...we noticed a few weeks ago that there is still the smell of smoke upstairs. When the upstairs was gutted, most of it was sprayed and sealed with Kilz, but not the side attic storage areas. Ron and I pointed out the omission to Andrew (the guy who has done the lions share of the work) and he sprayed those attics after the walls had been rebuilt, insulated and drywalled. I am not sure whether or not the roof and ceiling joists were sprayed. Anyway, it still smells like smoke from aobut the middle of the stairwell on up the stairs and into the girls rooms. Ron and Andrew discussed it and Andrew thinks the smell is from the floor where the sealant has worn off from work crews. Ron authorized him to re-spray and lay a subfloor in the upstairs portion of the house. Please pray that this will solve the problem. If it does not we are left with a really yucky possiblity of having to gut the upstairs again! Really yucky on many fronts...time, money, flying a crew in from ANC AGAIN to re-do walls, winter is coming, and I could go on and on! :) I do know one thing-God is bigger than the lingering smell of smoke in the house! Actually, I know two things-God listens to the prayers, pleading and petitions of His people! Okay, make it three- all things, circumstances and events that touch my life are filtered through His fingers of love! Thank you so much for thinking of us and praying for us throughout this time of trauma, trial and triumph! It is a privelege for me to share with you all who God IS to us and what He has done and is doing in our lives.
Foe now I rest in this truth...my furniture, appliances and flooring are on that barge!!!