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The cottage is going to be occupied by a more permanent tenant in 2 weeks time. It has become a high priority to clean up a disastrous area of rubbish that had accumulated next to the cottage….it was just a convenient place to dump stuff. Check it out…
The peeps that cleared the back garden a month ago were supposed to take all this junk away, but they didn’t. So it was left up to us. Mike bought a massive piece of black plastic, put the seats down at the back of his car, got our gardener to come in this morning and we got stuck in….well they got stuck in! All I did was pull out all the overgrown grass that you can see in this picture and sweep the place out when the first load was being taken. The result was dramatic…
It only took a couple of hours. As I was doing my bit, I said to Mike, ‘let us never let it get into this state again.’ It comes back down to it not being a priority in our lives. Our focus was on other more important things. Now, the house has our attention! 🙂 It feels great! It makes me feel we are taking control. In years gone by, we enjoyed looking at houses for sale and were always a little more interested in the houses that ‘needed a little work’ or were described as ‘fixer uppers.’ Well guess what? We are living in our own ‘fixer upper’ & I’m happy to say our progress is going along in leaps and bounds. On Monday, Leonard arrives and he will get stuck into the cottage pane windows that need all the putty taken out of them, the panes put back in and then they need varnishing. Mike was trying to wait for retirement, but you know what? When he retires, there will be other maintenance to do. Maintenance never goes away!
Meantime, inside the cottage it is almost ready for new tenant Dustin…
It’s a beautiful overcast day here in Cape Town. Julian arrived last night from Jo’burg. He is doing some work this morning and then this afternoon we plan on walking up Elsies Peak. Good to get out and enjoy the mountain on a glorious spring day….
Looking forward to that.
I found this fabulous quote from Amy Carmichael…
“A day or two ago I was thinking rather sadly of the past—so many sins and failures and lapses of every kind. I was reading Isaiah 43, and in verse 24 I saw myself: ‘You have wearied me with your iniquities.’ And then for the first time I noticed that there is no space between verse 24 and verse 25:
‘I, even I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake; and I will not remember your sins.’”
God blots out our transgressions for our own sake! I’ve never noticed that before!
Keep the smile going.
God bless you!
In His Grip,
Helga xx 🙂
Gratitude Pic….ahhhhh, I love after pics…
