Thursday
Today was the day…
We got completely locked out of our house. Three years ago when we upgraded our security we added latches inside our garage doors. When they are latched, if someone tries to break the garage door lock from the outside, they still can’t get in because of these latches. Today the one garage was latched and we left through the other. We were in the car and about to drive away when I suddenly remembered we didn’t have some tiles we had to take back to the tile store. Mike went inside to get the tiles. He had to take the keys to open the garage door. Went inside, put the keys down, picked up the required tiles, exited the house, closed the garage, put the tiles in the boot, got in the car – no keys!
We were completely locked out. I phoned Julian who came with the keys for the latched garage door. I was so impressed with Mike. After some fiddling, he did an absolute “McGyver” – I really thought we were going to need to call a locksmith.
We went to the tile stores in Paarden Eiland again and finalised the purchase of almost all the tiles for the bathrooms. I’m really happy with our choices and once the bathrooms are done, I’ll post some pictures. Riana came by the other day and snapped this photo of me on my balcony…
The house is soooo inaccessible at the moment. That should change this weekend when a lot of the excess rocks are taken off site.
We got home mid afternoon and I got stuck into work. This evening, we had a really enjoyable family dinner out.
The other thing that happened today is that my tax got finalised.
Anne remains in ICU. It’s a grueling few days after such a big operation. Hopefully, she will get over the worst and start going from strength to strength.
Corona stats South Africa country-wide –August 2020 –
Corona stats in Cape Town – 390 in the Western Cape over the last 24 hours.
- Friday 24th July – 13944 new cases (maximum we had in a day)– 250 deaths (245 771 recoveries/169 882 active) It’s now three weeks since we had the day with the highest number of new cases.
- Thur 13th August – 3946 new cases – 260 deaths (437 617 recoveries/123978 active)
- Frid 14th August – 6275 new cases – 286 deaths (461734 recoveries/105850 active)
- Sat 15th August – 4513 new cases – 121 deaths (466941 recoveries/105035 active)
- Sun 16th August – 3692 new cases – 162 deaths (472377 recoveries/103129 active)
- Mon 17th August – 2541 new cases – 143 deaths (477671 recoveries/100233 active)
- Tuesd 18th August – 2258 new cases (a new low) – 282 deaths (485468 recoveries/ 94412 active)
- Wed 19th August – 3916 new cases – 159 deaths (491441 recoveries/ 92916 active)
Total cases: 596060 Total deaths: 12423
Proverbs 9:10
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
The best is yet to come.
Keep the smile going.
God bless you.
In His Grip,
Helga xx 🙂
Braces:
1 year and 281 days