When it rains, it pours

"When it rains, it pours," someone said and it has been true for us these past couple weeks. Jon had to spend all day Saturday at our house in Orange. The water heater started leaking -- not sure when -- but long enough to ruin the new flooring we had installed in the spring. We will for sure have to replace the floor in the dining area, not sure if the kitchen portion will need replacing as well. We were thinking of a tankless water heather for the house, but the difference between a water heater ($1,300) and a tankless ($3,000) was just too much with anticipated expense of replacing the floor.

Jon spent all afternoon today (Sunday) getting our computer back up and running. We don't have the Microsoft Office software yet, but at least we have a "clean" machine and can access Outlook Express and the Internet. That is a big help. I am so grateful for Jon's tenacious work to get us back up. We hope to get the Microsoft software installed Tuesday night, so hopefully we'll find all of the documents we have created on our system by the middle of the week.

The new house is supposed to be delivered Monday morning at 8:30 a.m. I have not been happy with the work in preparing the lot -- long story -- but I have stayed on top of the contractor and sales person. Jon has gotten permission to go to work late so he will be there with me in the morning to make sure the new house gets put where it is supposed to. Then we have a couple weeks for the "outside package" to be built (porch, stairs, widen driveway, etc.). After that, we can move in -- hopefully the week before Christmas. I still think that is possible.

Thank you for your encouraging words and prayers. By the way, both Jon and I will need to rebuild our e-mail address books, so if you read this, please send each of us an e-mail. Thanks.

Sheryl