I have one more big thing to do.

This is our back patio. I really do try to keep this clean. Our back patio has been one of highlights. We love to have folks over and everyone enjoys this area of our yard. 

I know I love showing this part of it off. 

So I will clean it up and then we will be ready for others to come over. 

While I was doing this, I need to clean the seats on the Kia. 

I sprayed them with this stuff called Resolve. it really works pretty good. I will share pictures afterwards. 

Come ON, why would it pop a hole now? 

I still have the side and would like to clean our front walkway and driveway. 

Oh well. 

I got this machine about six or maybe now 7 years ago. I was over in Largo, Visting my cousins. They live in this park called Oak Crest Mobile Home Park. Well while I was leaving their home, I saw a guy having a yard sale. I stopped and saw this pressure washer. Thinking. how much. He told me $40.00 I offered him $30.00 and he took it. I think the day was winding down. 

A good deal, I have used this many times. Clean others, homes and even ours. Plus, driveways and just a nice thing to have. 

I ordered the hose online and it will be here the next day. That is crazy too. How fast they can get things to you. 

The hose came and I had trouble getting the old hose off of the wand. So I ordered a new wand, yesterday. But I need to finish up the Kia, I will share more tomorrow or the next time I get on the computer again. 

Folks I really hope and pray we all are seeking Our Lord Jesus Christ for HIS PEACE, PLUS. 

I know each and every day I wake up I ask Him for His guidance and wisdom to make it thru a other day. 

 

A need to do job, before Joyce, (Jeanne's sister) is coming next week.

I am not sure what day I bought this, but I need it for the back yard's flower bed. 

I think two weeks ago I worked on cleaning this up. Boy there, was sure a lot of weeds in here. Plus, vines went crazy. 

It took me two or maybe three days of cleaning this up. But at the end, my baby will be very happy. 

This was on Thursday afternoon. I need to out the truck bed, so I could use it on Friday morning. 

Okay, it is cleaned. It is not perfect, but it will be okay. Just taking trash to the land fill. Which you can see that happen, yesterday. 

Well, this week ahead is all about cleaning and get this place looking good for our guest. 

So today, I will be pressure washing the back patio. 

Okay this morning we heard Pastor Craig talking about in the Bible the book of Galatians 2:1-21

The verses he, spoke of are, 11 to 21. 

These verses are talking about Paul confronting Peter. (12) When Peter first arrived, he ate with the gentile Christians, who don't bother with circumcision. But afterwards when some Jewish friends of Jameas came, Peter wouldn't eat with the Gentiles anymore because he was afraid of what these legalists would say, (13) Then the other Jewish Christians followed Peter's

 HYPOCRISY. (I am the BIGGEST ONE)

How many times do we act like this? We are always thinking about how people see us? 

(16) And yet we Jewish Christians know that we become right with God, not by doing what the LAW Commands (713 laws) BUT by faith in Jesus Christ. So, we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be accepted by God because of the faith in Christ-and not because we have obeyed the law. For no one will ever be saved by obeying the law. (713 laws) 

So, folks Jesus Christ LOVES YOU VERY MUCH. Please call upon HIS NAME, 

John 14:6 Jesus told him, I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE. 

NO ONE CAN COME TO THE FATHER EXCEPT THROUGH ME. (JESUS)

My prayer for you is seeking HIS face. 

 

Took on a big job?

First of all, Kelly (one of the owners) She asked us to move the light above, to the center of the old medicine cabinet. Which I cut out the paneling. We did have enough 14 gauge wire in the wall. 

So just had to pull it out and bend it around the 2x2 Had to cut a small piece out of the lumber. So, the piece I cut, would fit over it. 

The guy before us, took out a linen closet. So, Roy had some fixing up. Put spackle in the holes and make it look good. 

While Roy worked on the bathroom. I need to put together the two side vanities. 

Then I heard, s---??? I came in and saw the hot side of the CPVC pipe was broken off under the floor. So now what? We ran out and tried to turn off the main water valve. WHERE IS IT?? I found the hot water valve running off the water heater. That shut it off. PRAISE YOU LORD. 

Okay, we need to find the main valve before we do anything else on those pipes??? 

We asked the neighbor next store, Tony came over and told us, not sure. We found a 4x4 piece of medal screwed under the skirting. I took it off. Nothing there. Okay I guess we will wait on doing anything else. But we do need to fix the hot side pipe. Went back outside and took off the skirting where the bathroom window is. Had to dig the skirting out. Got it off. Then I climbed under to see where the main beam that it the frame for the mobile home. Looked and saw no room for my fat butt to get to it. 

Roy and I talked about it and figured out, MAYBE, we can cut the floor out and repair the pipe??? 

That is what we did, just need to be careful with the old pipes. I got to it and cut the old pipe and glued the new one back on. It was very hard to get into the old pipe and not break something else. Really was not my plan at all. Started making me think, WHY would I take on this job?

  Maybe this is our last bathroom work? I don't deal good with stress anymore. But by God's grace we got it back together and no leaks. 

Okay we will just keep going, trying to make this a good day afterwards. 

Open the box and found this panel cracked. I just figured we would put this on the right-side vanity. This you will not see. 

There are sure a lot more parts than I excepted. But after 2 + hours I got the first side done. 

Thinking I need to add a little more time to this job alone. 

I will take the other one home and work there and maybe not think about the broken pipe anymore? 

Roy kick, some butt. It really was looking good. 

Okay got home, this is Wednesday night now. It still took me about three hours to put this one together. 

I am really thinking WHY, am I doing this anymore? 

Stress is not helping me. 

This is Thursday morning. Okay Roy is working on in the bathroom and I will but together this futon. 

There are two sets of legs. Okay I texted Kelly a picture of them. 

She told me the short ones. 

Now what do I need to do about this? The person that put this together was, maybe had a few drinks? 

They used a screw gun, Wrong to use on this cheat furniture. It might cost a lot, but in the end, it is still cheat, stuff. 

I need to take this all apart and redo it. Wow, this was not planned, either? 

Okay cut a piece of paneling to fit into the hole we made. 

It pretty good. The vanity will go right over this.

Okay let us turn the water off now, before we do anything else. Roy turned as far as he could. I got a small pilers and tried to turn it a little more. It started leaking??? WHY? O open the valve back up and left it alone. We are done with the pipes. 

STRESS NOT NEEDED. 

Put new modeling up next to the ceiling to make it look great. Then put the light up. Very good. We are done here, in the bathroom. 

I didn't take any pictures of the front door lock. But I put it in and used the code the paper told me to. 

I will let the sisters put in their code. That was another $75.00 that we didn't plan on doing. 

 I did take pictures before we left. 

Okay I texted Dee, telling her we have a problem with the shut off of the main water.

I drove back home and will come back later on tonight.  So, I drove back to her home around 6pm or so. I walked around showing her all we did and then showed her the main valve that will not shut off. 

Oh, I asked if she would like us to take away the trash out front, plus the sofa. The garbage cans were left full of the old vanity plus. We didn't take out.  So, I told her $75.00 to take it to the landfill. 

The went over the labor bill, then the supplies I bought too. 

Each job we did I put a price next to. Then went over the supply parts I bought. 

Came up with $657.00. I told her all we did that didn't plan on. 

Then I gave here Mike the plumper, his number and told her how to go to the office and ask them to dig up the main valve near the street. So, they could shut the line off. 

Oh, yesterday Roy and I loaded up the truck and went to the landfill. To drop off. 

Afterwards we went over to another house to look at some work, 

WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME? 

 

This shouldn't be too bad? All we need to do is replace a 2x4 piece of drywall. The go out back and clean up the yard. Take some trash away. 

There is a piece of 12" molding we need to replace too. 

WHAT???? 

 

Okay coming to the end of the school year. Senior's Prom, is happening this night. (Saturday April 29th)

Well to get you up to speed, Chef Gray (Jeanne my wife) has been working since last week, trying to get everything ready for this evening's Prom. So, on the way to the school, we stopped and got some breakfast, at Waffle House. 

The place was very busy and noisy. But we ordered and our food came out somewhat warm. NOT HOT. But as I talked with my lovely wife, they are very busy and it will be okay. But as she looked at her grits, NO WAY, am I eating these. Lumpy, she got home fries instead. Started eating and she was not happy. We asked for a refund. No problem. I ate what I had. 

Just not a good start for our day. 

Got to the school and started setting up stations for the students coming in to help us. Miss Yeager came in to help too. Very much a BIG blessing. 

Okay we have the food ready to go over. I started out and took one load of 2 small ovens, to heat up whatever is needed. Plus, it filled up the back of the Kia. 

Then I came back for more items. 

Got some what set up at the prom site. 

I didn't take any picture except this one. The room where the students were was very dark. Plus, very loud music. 

So, I just tried to keep things going and coming. 

Near the end of the evening, I took three loads of things we didn't need any more back to the school. 

Then my final trip we got everything else. 

My wife rented a van for transportation for the student that helped us, back and forward. Miss Yeager drove her SUV. which, if she was helpful for us, we would have had to take many more trips, Thank you Miss Yeager, very much. Plus carrying things and students in her SUV. 

Meanwhile we all got back to the school. 

This was the food left over. Everyone got something to eat and helped us pack it all up, put it into the refrigerators, Plus some in the freezers too. 

As we were packing things up, it was time to get out of there and get home. THE TIME WAS 1:30AM. 

We were both tried and ready to call it a night. 

Slept pretty good and got up and watch Pastor Craig online. He is going thru the Book of 1 Corinthians. Very well done, Pastor. 

Jeanne and I needed to get away for a little while. We brought some breakfast and went down to the Jetty. 

Thes were the leftovers (chicken salad sandwiches) 

What a beautiful day. But you can see the white caps. The wind was blowing pretty strong. Even before we left out home there was a couple of weather reports of tornadoes touched down, down south. No damage at our home. A lot of mangos on the ground and Jeanne and I went around and picked them all up. Saving the larger ones and giving the small ones to our neighbor next store. He has pigs that we give him our leftovers and whatever Jeanne does in her kitchen at the school.

BUT WHAT A BEAUTFUL DAY. Thank you, Jesus. 

Okay now need to get back to the school and make sure the alarm is set. 

I showed Jeanne this and I asked her if they are doing a story on her? Not that she knows of. 

Maybe it just saying thank you for all she got done for the Seniors? 

She really does deserve, the thank you. 

I want to say THANK YOU JESUS FOR USING US.