Washer

Our washer broke on Saturday. The repair man is scheduled to visit today, but in the meantime we've decided to purchase new underwear anyway.

Hosanna

Bring down the house

We brought down the house on Saturday. 

The young people from our church stopped by the Cookie House on their progressive dinner. We fed them bread, butter and strawberry jam.

While they were helping themselves to slices of bread and watching Mennonite TV, the house suddenly lurched. There was a thud and I felt the floor sway beneath me.

A couple of us rushed to the basement. The previous owners had installed a metal support reaching from the basement floor to the floor joists, to help hold up the floor upstairs. While the house was unoccupied, the basement flooded. The water rusted the metal support and it finally gave way sending our visitors on a bit of a ride. 

Upstairs there's nothing noticeably different and we have plans to install a new support, this time on blocks or treated lumber. Until then, though, I've outlawed jumping jacks in the living room. 

Power

But you will receive power 

when the Holy Spirit comes on you; 

and you will be my witnesses 

in Jerusalem, and in all Judea 

and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.

Acts 1.8 NIV

Miss Havisham

Brown

Lang visit

The Lang girls visited the Cookie House Friday night while their parents went out to dinner. We had a marvelous time playing house, decorating cupcakes, reading books and watching movies about children in South Korea and Australia.