Monday
Today was the day…
I took a photo of under the house! I think that idea piqued some curiosity yesterday so today when at Echo, I took a photo. Firstly, this space is just after the entrance to the ground floor which is the one bedroomed unit we will use as a rental. It’s the one where the kitchen is almost finished. Below it is the basement. Above it is Mike and my floor and above that is Julian’s, so it’s the second level. When it was being built it looked like this:
This is now its entrance….and under the house is just to the right of it. The big wall above forms the left side of the crawl space.
This is the crawl space…it’s a bit of a scramble but in the future we could excavate quite a lot of this area and it could be turned into quite a functional workshop or office.
It’s just amazing how much of the house has now been built. A year ago, we were in limbo with the build. In July last year, we were trying to get neighbour’s permission and had stalled as two of them had special requirements before we could go ahead. On 21st July, Mike and I went to Scarborough and sat on some rocks and prayed. Mike remembers it well. Despite all the uncertainty at the time, he felt confident to pray for no more obstacles ahead. Over the coming months, those challenges melted away, we had no resistance from the neighbours and we paid Council Scrutiny fees on 17th October. If you had said to me a year ago that we would be this far by now, I would not be able to imagine it.
Today I did a bit of work and then went with Mike to buy wire for the solar system.
Corona stats – July 2020 – Just seen the Western Cape stats. We’ve only had 388 new cases over the last 24 hours which is a big drop.
- Thursday 9th July – 13674 new cases – this was the highest daily number, so I’ll leave it up. I’m waiting for us to have a massive spike.
- Monday 13th July – 11 554 new cases – 93 deaths (138 241 recoveries/ 145 383 active)
- Tuesday 14th July – 10496 new cases – 174 deaths (146279 recoveries/147667 active)
- Wednesday 15th July – 12 757 new cases – 107 deaths (160693 recoveries/ 145903 active) Recoveries have overtaken active cases.
- Thursday 16th July – 13 172 new cases – 216 deaths (165 591 recoveries/ 153 961 active)
- Friday 17th July – 13 373 new cases – 135 deaths (178 183 recoveries/154 607 active
- Saturday 18th July – 13 285 new cases – 144 deaths (182 230 recoveries/ 63 701 active)
- Sunday 19th July – 13 449 new case – 85 deaths (191 059 recoveries/168236 active)
Total cases: 364 328 Total deaths: 5033
1 Peter 1:6
Be truly glad. There is wonderful joy ahead, even though you must endure many trials for a little while.
The best is yet to come.
Keep the smile going.
God bless you.
In His Grip,
Helga xx 🙂
Braces:
1 year and 250 days