This is a bit harder post to write! Today we arrived at the station site to find out we had been vandalized overnight. After the necessary calls to police and insurance and window companies - we basically cleaned up the broken glass, boarded over the broken windows and now need to confirm with Loewen a repair to six segments of windows. This act and some telltale evidence has shown it to be a repeat of vandalism that has happened already in town recently at another construction site. We've done all we can do. We need to be more faithful in praying a "hedge" around the site when we drive away at night.
How can we be thankful in this?
The number of weeks those brackets and beams sat out on the lot and didn't receive any damage (willful or unintentional)! How can we not be thankful!
The amount of damage that COULD have happened last night and didn't! How can we not be thankful!
Why this didn't happen already when you almost come to expect it? How can you not be thankful!
What if it was something that could not be repaired? How can you not be thankful!
What if theft was also involved? But nothing was taken! How can you not be thankful!
There are no pictures from today!! We left it to the police to take the pictures!
THE LAST NUMBER OF DAYS
On to another "train" of thought - pardon the pun!
We have lots of trades working on the inside of the building these days! We met with the electrician (Lorne Green) today to discuss moving along with that element of construction. So that is on the horizon! The drywall boarders are in boarding the mechanical rooms so the plumber and electrician and sheet metal fellows can all get in there and do their part towards PERMANENT heat! Today the "gas man" (Dameon from Civic Mechanical) is running gas lines and preparing for furnaces. The sheet metal fellows were in there getting some duct work done to carry the coming heat from the furnaces around the building.
Last weekend Peter and I spent part of Saturday upstairs staining our timber trusses. We are truly happy with the transparent stain we had mixed up for us! The grain of the wood is not lost, yet they are darker - which we wanted for more of an antique look. Out of the six, four are done being stained and we need to stain two more. Then one coat of varnish before the drywallers put on the drywall upstairs. I DO have some pictures from the weekend!
Getting ready!
One is done!
It's a long way up!
This week yet? I think we get insulation somewhere along the line. Plus more of the ongoing work downstairs.
Pray for us and the project - to remain true to Christ, and not become discouraged in this endeavor. To remain level-headed in moving forward with setbacks. To remember - always - to give Him thanks!
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