Saturday
Today was the day…
The truck carrying Julian’s furniture arrived at 4am. The occupants slept for a few hours and then woke up and jumped into action. With a couple of other hired hands, the truck was unpacked and the furniture was lugged up the 80 steps + an extra 15 to Julian’s floor. We pulled off a chunk of the bubble wrap for use on the solar panels. The workers were quick. As soon as they were done, they went across to our old house and picked up the 34 year old wall units, a writing bureau that Mike also made and a bench. They were bought back. The bench looks perfect on our balcony. It needs a bit of freshening up – it will be a nice project for Courage some time in the future…
This part of the balcony doesn’t yet have its balustrade. Werner was due to come and do the tiling today, but there has been no water since late yesterday evening! A broken local hydrant was to blame and it took the Council several hours today to replace it. Finally the water came on at about 3pm. View from the bench…
When it comes, the balustrade will block the bottom half of the view. While all this was happening, Jerome and his colleague were putting tinting on the windows facing Fish Hoek and the mountainside. Now no one can see in when they are on those sides and it also offers protection from the hot summer sun which shines in during the afternoon. Jerome is fantastic. He did a great job and had a great attitude towards our 80 steps!
The moving team went back to our old house to load up the books Julian had stored there. They loaded up as many as the truck could take, plus the 9 solar panels and their batteries and by just after 2pm, they were on their way back to Johannesburg. Mike oversaw proceedings and then went home to have breakfast!! Meanwhile, I saw the tinting fellows out and then went to the airport to pick up Jess and Gerrie who are here for a week. We went straight to the old house, so Gerrie could check the truck was good to go. We then came home. The mist had lifted. The sun was shining. A gentle north wind was blowing and the entire scene looked like something out of a movie. How did this happen? That was the question Mike and I asked each other. We regularly shake our heads in disbelief that we get to live here. View from the balcony…
Jess and Gerrie were shown around and approve! I think there are few who would not. Jess has followed the build here on my blog but agrees the photos just can’t do it justice.
The compromise is for sure the 80 steps – I’m about to do them for the 6th time today as I go shopping as soon as I’ve done this.
Covid numbers in the Western Cape –219 new cases over the last 24 hours.
Covid 19 stats – South Africa
- Friday 24th July – 13944 new cases (maximum we had in a day)– 250 deaths (245 771 recoveries/169 882 active)
- Sat 17 Oct – 1928 new cases – 38 deaths (630436 recoveries/53287 active)
- Sun 18 Oct – 1662 new cases – 63 deaths (634543 recoveries/50799 active)
- Mon 19 Oct – 1461 new cases – 21 deaths (635257 recoveries/51505 active)
- Tues 20 Oct – 1050 new cases – 164 deaths (639568 recoveries/48080 active)
- Wed 21 Oct – 2055 new cases – 85 deaths (641706 recoveries/47912 active)
- Thur 22 Oct – 2156 new cases – 102 deaths (642560 recoveries/49112 active)
- Frid 23rd Oct – 1897 new cases – 48 deaths (643523 recoveries/49998 active)
Total cases: 712412 Total deaths: 18891
Psalm 118:28
You are my God, and I will praise You; You are my God, and I will exalt You.
The best is yet to come.
Keep the smile going.
God bless you.
In His Grip,
Helga xx 🙂
Braces:
1 year and 346 days