10/19/2019
We now have used our furnace to warm the house in early morning these last two days. If the temperature stayed in the 50s at night, we would not need to do that, but 38-41 demands a heater! Weather is very difficult: I must stop talking about it on here, it frustrates me. I cannot do a single thing about it. Let’s talk SIMH.
This morning, about 5:15, I had two songs sort of alternating inside my beady little brain. One was Roy Orbison’s “Crying!” —did you know he covers two complete octaves with his voice in that song? Fantastic! What a voice. The other was “Ain’t No Sunshine When She’s Gone,” Bill Withers, in the era of Booker T and the MGs (about 1971.) Bill says he was 32 years old, watching the movie “Days of Wine and Roses” when this song came to him. Isn’t inspiration enlightening? He actually recorded this song as what was then known as the “B” side, but DJs played it and switched it to “A” preference. (His only really big hit.) Fate? No. Luck? Maybe. “Time and chance happeneth to us all,” the Bible says.
We’re fixing a few things around our house to prepare it to sell when we’re ready. Sometime before Spring, we’ll move down to the “ditch”
wherein sits Fort Payne proper. We’ve lived on the mountaintop long enough. It’s time we experienced the valley! Not really, we like the near downtown feel of the neighborhood where we’re going. And, we’ll have a lot less property for which to be caretakers. We’re hoping to be very comfortable there.
But, at this house, we’re repairing a couple of things; changing the gates on the fence, replacing a broken shutter, etc. All of which are just going to make the house curb-appeal better. Inside, we’re fixing a builder’s flaw in the kitchen and it necessitates changing a couple of things noticeably. Shouldn’t take long.
Now the work on the house we’ll be moving into, that’s another story. We’ll be working on that project a bit longer. But, we’re optimistic we can get into it and not get overwhelmed. This is a fun project to add to all the other fun projects with which we’re already involved. Gonna take a while, though, gonna take a while.
You know, if I were to “bid” on a project, I would try my best to be specific in my bid. That is, if I was not sure of a cost, I’d try not to bid till I was sure. If I really didn’t know how to do that, I think I would not bid, at all. Or, if I really didn’t want the job, I would just politely bow out of the bidding. A man gave us a bid which was vague, to say the least. Details of certain portions of the work were not listed at all, leaving us to guess on many things which might have altered our course. Then, just as though he had been perfectly specific in his enumerating, at the end he said—“Unknowns, $10,855”—how can “unknowns” be specific? Nothing else was. Befuddling.
We’re thinking we’ll act as our own general contractor, that way we can have some control of when we get the individual items done. Working on my list now.
More prospects showing up for more Blue Jug stores in our area, just not yet have anyone “pull the trigger!” Soon, though, very soon. Even still, it is fun being involved with the expansion of the licensed stores. A lady who is in charge of 7 dialysis locations in the Chattanooga area, told me this morning she has someone who’s interested in putting a store in a very viable area of Chattanooga suburbs. Hope she’s right, I look forward to meeting them soon.
Tomorrow, I go again to Alexandria for Bible Class, then back here for our Sunday afternoon 4 0’clock class. Love the time spent with friends in the word of God.
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