My week....

Well let's see...I thought I might share with you my past week. Nothing exciting but still sort of typical (atleast for a week when we don't have a med team here)
Bob had spoken to Joe our landlord about our kitchen counters. They were really in bad shape and were causing water to leak down into the cupboards. So, Joe came up, checked them out and agreed they needed replacing. So last Thursday Joe began. He brought Pabo (caretaker when Joe's back in Canada) and they ripped out the old counter tops. Of course, previous to this I had to empty out the cupboards and remove the drawers. It took them 5 minutes to rip out the old. Then they made a new base out of plywood, got it all installed with the sink reinstalled. This only took about 2 hours max. Then Joe called the guy who was lined up to put the laminate over the plywood. That was Thursday about noon.
Now Joe doesn't like to do any repairs in our apartment unless Bob or I are there. So, I sat home waiting for the laminate guy. Everytime Joe called him, he was going to be over in just a little while. Sunday evening at 6pm he finally arrived and installed the 'butcher block' laminate counter!
Joe came up this morning with the ceramic tile he purchased to finish the wall by the sink. It should look nice when done. With Joe doing it it should be completed soon.
I did get the new curtain panels made for the temporary room dividers Bob had purchased used from a junk yard. These are the to be used for the med clinics in the villages. So my sewing machine and I reconnected after being separated since last April! What joy! sewing!
Then I was able to remake 5 t-shirts. I do NOT like the way t-shirts fit..I really hate t-shirt necklines esp in the heat! I had two new SCORE t-shirts along with 3 I had picked up while gone from the DR. So using my serger I was able to redo the necklines and make them sleeveless, and cut about 8" off the length. Why do they make t-shirts so-o-o-o long? So, after a few trying moments of bad tension (the serger --NOT me!) I reconnected with my serger too.

Then Wayne (SCORE missionary in charge of construction) was here Sunday thru this morning. He took Bob and I out to eat at a place I'd never been to. How do you describe a restaurant that is on the beach with beds in the water, and on the beach that you recline on and eat? We, however, chose the tables on the wooden deck. Had to get our flaslights out to see the menu. Who knows if what I ate is what I ordered, the one little votive on the table didn't illuminate my plate. But it was delicious! And we had a great time with Wayne as we sat and talked for over 2 hours.

Wayne showed Bob a stack of scrap wood that was left from some projects he had completed for SCORE. Bob used some of it today and made three (YES THREE!!!) bookcases for our apartment. One for his little study and two for my sewing room. I had two bookcases in their already, but one only had three shelves and the other is only 3 feet high. My two new ones are each 6 feet tall! Bob is going to take them home in a few minutes. I already have left over paint from some other projects and I will paint them this evening. I am so exceited!!!!! Just last week I was wishing I could have new bookcases, but knew it wasn't in the budget to buy them or the wood to make them. Now I have two and Bob has one also....God is so good! This was just a wish and He still honored it. Maybe it seems silly...but I feel humbled that the God of the universe would still care that I got two bookcases!

Yesterday Bob and I got to go into Santo Domingo. He had to check on some items for an upcoming med team. So we got to spend the afternoon together. Even got to get a slice of pizza and a Coke at Price Smart (their version of Sam's Club).
Oh yes, we left for Sto Domingo AFTER we waited 2 hours for the fumigator to show up. Monday afternoon Bob found a BlackWidow right inside the front door of the clinic. I thought I only had to be on the lookout for tarantulas!

I've been in the morning with my coffee reading a book by Randy Alcorn called "Heaven". I started it before but got side-tracked and never finished it. So I re-started and am really enjoying it. I highly recommend it! Really has made me think about, well, HEAVEN, of course!

So this has been my life...nothing earth shattering...but this was my past week.

love you.....