Monday Monday!

Good Monday Morning!! I hope this morning finds you all bright eyed and bushy tailed and ready to go! LOL.  At 6:00 a.m. I am about as bright eyed as a new born kitten who hasn't opened its eyes yet, but little by little I'm getting there...LOL.

So the last time I spoke with you on Saturday HERE, it was a foggy morning and we were looking forward to a visit with our dear friend Linda (from Simply Linda)and her hubby Dave.  And we were also anticipating the completion of our new floor in our house...and so here below you see both events combined:

Yep, that's the four of us, checking out the new floor! LOL.

Here's a topside picture of Linda and me...and yes, the wind was blowing my hair, adding to my already bad hair day...I should have taken a cue from Linda and wore a hat!  (btw, overdue haircut is happening this coming Thursday, Lord willing and the creek don't rise again...it was supposed to happen last Thursday, when "Hurricane Nicole" breezed through and thus the appointment was cancelled).

Anyway, back to the story.  We had a wonderful visit with Linda and Dave, even though a bit chaotic at our house.  The men were still finishing up the floors and the furniture was all in disarray, and we even had some excitement when a fire broke out in their trailer, which was parked out in front of the house right next to the front porch, where all the scraps and old carpet, etc., were being thrown to take to the dump...apparently one of the workers had taken a smoking break and inadvertently threw his cigarette butt into the open trailer of trash and all of a sudden I saw smoke rising and rapidly growing! Of course someone had moved our fire extinguisher away from the front door where it would have been easily accessible, but after a quick run (by me) to the water faucet (which happens to be on the back side of the house and under the porch, which then connects to a hose that runs under the house to the front yard), the fire was out before it became a conflagration. Praise God! That was a close one!

So after all the excitement and confusion, Linda and Dave were finally able to pick up their roll-top desk that they had purchased from Dixie Cottage and that had been stored in our shed until they could move into their new house, and they were on their way back home (they live about an hour away from us)...and the men finally totally completed the new floor and put all the furniture back into place (thankfully...what a blessing they did all the heavy stuff for us!)...and then we had the joyous task of putting things back together, like making the bed so we could collapse into it that night:

Now, there's a story about that too.  We are learning how to adapt to these lovely new "luxury vinyl plank floors". BTW, the name of our flooring color is "Hazelnut Maple"....sort of sounds like some kind of gourmet coffee, doesn't it?  Anyway, I digress...When I went to make the bed, I leaned against the bed and it started moving across the floor.  Our bed frame has wheels on it, and there was nothing for them to grip since there was no longer any carpet.  So, hubby and I had to figure out someway of giving them some traction or we'd possibly wake up to find ourselves flying on our bed into the next county! LOL.

I finally had to cut some little pieces of rug with a rubber backing on it and we had to lift the bed and place the pieces under each wheel...which was a challenge in itself...but we finally managed to do it well enough to stop the bed from moving.

The next issue was those lovely throw rugs you see above beside the bed.  I had purchased them in anticipation of this event.  The only thing I didn't realize was that they had a fringe tied in knots all the way across the two ends of the rug.  Hubby took one step on the rug and of course his foot landed on the knots, and he declared that would never do for bare feet in the night. So I thought about taking them back to the store, but I liked the color, etc., and so decided to just cut off all the knotted fringes.  The only thing is the rugs will probably now start unraveling from each end and eventually there will be no rug left...but we'll deal with that issue when the time comes. They were cheap enough at Ollie's so when they ravel away I will just get something else. For now we needed rugs by the bed! LOL.

This morning we woke up to a chill in the air, and so it felt nice and cozy in here with the "fire" in the fireplace...  

I still have a LOT to do to unpack all the knicknacks and paddywhacks, but hopefully I will get the majority of it done before Thanksgiving...which yes, will be here at our house with some of our extended Florida family as per our usual tradition...

But meanwhile, in my moments of rest and recuperation from this monumental event we have just undertaken, I have been enjoying reading this book...  My NH and Maine friends will know what I am talking about...Mrs. T from Across My Kitchen Table, and Vee, from "A Haven for Vee" and I discussed this story about the lady known as "Messannie Wilkins, the Last of the Saddle Tramps" recently.  I wanted to get her original autobiography, but alas the only copies were quite expensive, so this biography written by Elizabeth Letts is quite good and was much much more affordable.  It's a story of one woman's determination to not give up living when told she should just go live in a charity home until she died...but she decided to get on her horse and pick up her doggy and head for the Pacific Ocean from her home in Maine....this was back in the 1950's...and is quite a story!   It makes for some interesting and enjoyable reading when I am resting from my labors.

Okay, friends...I hope by now you've had your coffee and/or tea, and are ready to pick up whatever challenge you may be facing today and move ahead.

Philippians 3:12-14

12 Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. 

13 Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, 

14 I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

 

Amen!