Weekend

 

 Our skies look like this much of the time these past few weeks. After a dry May, June has been rainy with some thunderstorms. We are not complaining.

The weekend was nice. Tim and Kyle moved the shed from next to the driveway, to the other end of the house near the pool.

The shed needs a bit of work. We've had it for many years, and it was my parents shed before that! At one point Tim replaced the siding so it's easy enough to replace a section. We plan to repaint it white to match what the house siding will be when the addition is done. The shed will be used to store pool things, from floaties, to life vests, to towels and more. I want to hang hooks inside so the towels have a place to dry other than the railings of the deck!

The house needs to be washed but it hasn't happened yet, and since it will have new siding in the next few months it's probably not going to happen before that!

It's been tough for Tim to balance all the things he needs to do around here, and work. We are grateful for the work (could use more!) and soon Tim's part of the prep work for the addition will be done and it will be in the hands of the builder.

Dad's surgery went very well. The doc said he got all of the tumor. We are thankful. We wait for the all clear from the lymph nodes in about a week, but we are hopeful since the cat scan last month showed no spread! Praying and trusting God.

We had to be at the hospital at 11:45am yesterday, so I took Mom and Dad and we got there in plenty of time. Their small group leaders were already there waiting on them, and one of their pastors showed up just after that. Dad got all checked in then had a wait so we all prayed together.

Then Dad went back to get ready. Mom got to go back just before he went into surgery, which was around 2:00pm. He was out by 4:00pm but it was several hours before Mom could go see him. By then Tim was with us, and their small group leaders left. It was so sweet for them to stay with us the whole time!

We got home after 7:00 pm last evening. Dad was still waiting for a room, but called Mom a few hours later to say he was in a room, and they were getting him some broth (liquid diet at first), he had a tv and a phone and was content.

Thank you for your prayers for my Dad. We know God is in charge of all my Dad's days. We trust him.