Hottest, hottest, hottest.

August 2, 2007 (6:18am)
67º F, Clear, Dead clam calm wind.

Good morning,

Feels like another hot day a-coming, but not as hot as the past couple - by a few degrees. I think our high yesterday was 97º F, but the saving part was that we had a pretty good SW wind most of the day and with the humidity down, the temperature didn’t feel as bad as the day before. Seems like a forever ago that I needed to use any kind of covers at night. Today the humidity is back up again. There were some storms to the north and east of us during the night, but nothing here. Could use some.

A major bridge in Minneapolis collapsed during rush hour yesterday afternoon. The last I saw, there were six dead and many injured. Not a good thing. We have been over that bridge many times, lately when we went to the Holy Spirit Conferences. I first heard (saw) it on the BBC’s news website. Seems strange that the BBC had coverage of it before our news services. They even had a video story about it. English and American language and customs are some different. The BBC had an interview with the "Governor" of Minneapolis, but not the Mayor.

The pictures for today show a couple of changes we have made in the eating place. The old homemade table light made of 2"x4" s and 2"x2" s with a surface mount light socket, has been replaced by a hanging "kerosene" swag lamp. The surface wiring to the light is now gone and replace by what I hope is a better looking gold chain. There also is a shelf on the wall next to the refrigerator, adding some much needed storage for Margriet. It already too small. It came from the main house, hanging on a wall in the bedroom unused and the wall it was hanging on is going to move eventually. The ceiling light will also be chance to something else and the wall to the left, between the eating place and the rest of the kitchen will be removed to make room for a real range.

We are very slowly making our way through the last batch of boxes we brought up, even a couple of those we brought the time before. It is a tedious task to accomplish. Usually I wait until the heat of the day to work on it. I had a chuckle at Margriet yesterday. She was working on the ledger yesterday and she said the heat had damaged her brain! Seems her concentration level drops considerably and after making a couple of entries, has to do something else for a bit. I know the feeling well.

One of the unexpected benefits of this going through things that I haven’t for some time is I am finding some of the old Bible studies I wrote in the past, stored on floppy disks, and found I can’t recover them from the disks any more as they have died. I reused paper that is blank on one side. Too cheap to throw something away that still can be used. The Bible studies are on the backs of many of the pages. Maybe someday I will have a complete set of those I wrote. Since we are at a new church, might be able to use them again. I hope.

Time to get a-going.

In Christ My Saviour,

Chris ><>