Today after a long break, we received another sms from the city. It was not profound…
It just means we are again edging our way forward. The next stop will be to pay the advertising fee for the Council to send out the registered letter to the neighbour who is disgruntled about his sun being lost during part of the afternoon. He has emailed us recently to say his appraiser is valuing his house and looking at the basic footprint of ours to establish how much value his house will lose due to our house being built. If I saw his elderly Mother sitting in the sun room by the window every afternoon, I would feel really bad if she loses a little sun. But this is a man who lives in Pretoria. The house is empty. He only intends moving in in 9 years time. We will go through the objection process and see what happens. Now that we know the house is not going to be built in the next 5 minutes, we are happily enjoying no stress and just letting the process take its course. I spoke to our builder today and he will be moving ahead with putting a roll-over kerb in the next week or two. This will allow for more off-road pavement parking.
Julian arrives tonight. It’s always good to have a bit of a building update for him.
I went to Echo today and mooched around the back taking a few photos. This is from the bottom looking up.
Side view…
From the top looking down…
The plot behind is Gareth’s land. He will build there soon…either before us or at the same time as us…very nice guy….
The neighbour on the other side has a drying patio which was built 2.5 metres into the passage between our two properties. It means the owners of the plots behind his house will only have half a metre to get past it when they come build. Should be interesting to see how they manage, although it shouldn’t be too difficult to demolish the drying patio.
We will dream on. Unless the Lord builds the house those who build it labour in vain. We trust Him.
Today I worked 8 hours and 13 minutes.
Nugget on my journey. As I was preparing to move to Cape Town, I had my Great Grandma’s old trunk that needed to be taken to Harare train station. It seemed an impossible job to try to find someone to do such a chore. A guy from my Mom’s work offered to take it. I remember feeling so grateful for that answer to prayer. I literally had nothing to do with the process. He took it to the station, delivered it to wherever it had to be delivered and many weeks later, about a month after I got to Cape Town, it arrived at my nurses’ home. God also used it as an unexpected means of provision. I think it cost me about $25 (good Zim dollars in those days) to get it to Cape Town. From Cape Town to the nurse’s home it cost R24, a princely sum on my lowly nurse’s wage. After paying that, I was low in cash, but was determined to still tithe what I had, leaving me with even less. “The Lord will provide.” Believe it or not, I got the R24 refunded. How that worked I’ll never know, but that money came at the perfect time.
Proverbs 14:26
Those who fear the Lord are secure; He will be a refuge for their children.
Amen!
These are the days.
Keep the smile going.
God bless you.
In His Grip,
Helga xx 🙂
Gym:
- 5km in 37 minutes 22 seconds
- 5 minute walk to cool down
- A couple of leg exercises.
Braces:
Day 211