Friday
Today was the day…
I worked through my to-do list…
- Bible reading
- Work
- Laundry
- Bird feeder refill
- Then to Fish Hoek for coffee with friends.
By mid afternoon, I’d wrapped up work for the week.
Rain is coming. We should have a bit overnight and throughout the weekend. We went down to Echo this evening and I exchanged a few messages with Werner. He said the electrician had gone AWOL. I told him the electrician was busy working on the kitchen design and finalising the cutting list. He asked me to tell the electrician he didn’t have power on the top floor. As we were at Echo, I told the electrician and he flipped a switch so Werner will have power on the top floor when he comes in tomorrow. Mike has not needed to work at Echo this week as he has just about completed the electrics. He’s a star!
We are meeting Werner on site tomorrow morning to discuss a number of things. For my own benefit – we need to talk about:
- Tap on our balcony
- Ceiling trapdoor on top floor
- Architraves
- Finalize tiles
I think once that’s done, Mike and I will go to the tile stores and order the tiles, so tomorrow we need to measure up for that.
Werner has been working long hours and has done an exceptional job. We are very happy. We hope to have built our house on the mountainside, with really bad access for R10400 a square metre. As we near the end, we hope we will come in at or under that.
I’m excited about moving, but I am going to miss the easy access of the home we have enjoyed for the last 31 years. We are scaling down as even though our new house has 4 storeys, our apartment is two bedrooms. We will fit perfectly.
We have been very comfortable here.
Corona stats South Africa country-wide –August 2020 –
- 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.
- Friday 7th August – 7292 new cases – 305 deaths (394759 recoveries/140808 active)
- Saturday 8th August – 7712 new cases – 301 deaths (404568 recoveries/138410 active)
- Sunday 9th August – 6671 new cases – 198 deaths (411474 recoveries/137977 active)
- Monday 10th August – 3739 new cases – 213 deaths (417200 recoveries/ 135777 active)
- Tuesday 11th August – a new low: 2511 new cases – 130 deaths (426125 recoveries/ 129233 active)
- Wed 12th August – 2810 new cases – 259 deaths (432029 recoveries/125880 active)
- Thur 13th August – 3946 new cases – 260 deaths (437 617 recoveries/123978 active)
Total cases: 572 865 Total deaths: 11270
Proverbs 19:20
Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter days.
Wisdom is accumulative.
The best is yet to come.
Keep the smile going.
God bless you.
In His Grip,
Helga xx 🙂
Braces:
1 year and 275 days