“The RoseBouquet”

Last week Jake decided that he could get my roofing job done yet by the end of the week. He and his helper worked on Wednesday to repair the sagging area of the roof, and found several other sagging rafters underneath, so they fixed those too.

They also threw down the bricks from the chimney. That was in such a sad state that the bricks were not even held together any more by the mortar! In fact, when I saw the scattered bricks in my messy back, and saw how black many of the bricks were, I wondered if I had not been pretty close to having a chimney fire! I believe the angels I asked God to set on watch around my place last summer and fall have had a very busy time of it and been quite conscientious! (Another instance in a bit).

On Thursday they took delivery of the new shingles and put them up, while I was away at the office again. They finished the shingles over the front and back porches on Friday morning, so I stayed home then, so Jake and I could work over his invoice and I could prepare it to send away so he can get paid.

They did clean up the old shingles and some of the debris, but there is still quite a bit for me to clean up, and the yard to rake - I just have not had time to do that yet.

Presently I’m waiting to get through to the man who is to put up the new eavestroughs.

Jake will come back later to do the rest of his indoor renovation jobs.

I’ll have some things to show the electrician when he can come too! Someone offered me another used windowbox air-conditioner when I mentioned that mine had died. Joe, my good neighbour, was kind enough to carry it inside, but we discovered it to be incomplete. While he was sorting out the electrical cords we discovered that the shorter extension cord that had been attached, looked very burnt out and mishappen at the plug end behind the freezer. When we took that cord off and plugged in my old A/C it came back to life! Immediately I knew that God has prevented another house-fire for me. Those angels He set on watch around my place have been doing their duties silently but consistently! All praise to God!