The "Re's"

We are REJOICING! The remodel/repaint/recarpet job is DONE! We are excited, grateful, thankful, relieved, ecstatic, and jubilant!

They said it couldn't be done! They said nobody could do it! Some asked if we were on drugs, and others said "It's nice to know an optimist!" when we told people we were having a remodel/repaint/recarpet job done that was to begin the beginning June and end around 31 July. People laughed at us -- truly, they did!

The work began 12 days late, through no fault of the contractor, and ended 4 days late on 4 August.

Neighbors have stopped us and said, "Is your remodel done already?" We gleefully, gratefully say, "Yes! And they've done a wonderful job!"

THANKS must go to Atherton Baptist Homes for allowing us to live in a variety of available guest apartments for 3 of the last four weeks of the remodel, with another week spent in San Diego and Sacramento. We found out just how much fun it is to live at Atherton and did wonder from time-to-time why we hadn't decided to skip the work on our condo and just sell and move to Atherton.

THANKS also goes to NK Construction and all the sub-contractors who did an outstanding job!

Glitches? Yep -- not many but a few, the most traumatic of which was that the brand new air conditioner that we had installed in May, before NK began their part of the work, started blowing HOT AIR late on the Friday afternoon that we were going to begin to move back to the condo. Thankfully, we still had the Atherton guest apartment booked for another 7 days, so we continued to stay at Atherton at nights and work at the warm condo during the days. What a relief it was to get to our cool Atherton apartment each evening! Our condo's air conditioner is now working well again, but that did not happen until Thursday last week, after two visits from repair people. Sigh!

We had one week to move things back from storage, unpack, and put them away while also tying up loose ends to be gone for 2 months on a trip that we're calling "The Crazy Cousin Reunion . . . and More!" Neil is an amazingly hard worker, hauling all the boxes of our "stuff" back from storage to the condo. We got almost everything upacked and put away, with the exception being our books.

You'd be so impressed -- the condo looks lovely, clean, fresh, and amazingly uncluttered, with just a few boxes of books stacked neatly against a wall and inside a bookcase.

We are so grateful for the remodel work that was done, much of which had needed doing for ten years, since the day we moved into this wonderful tri-level condo in downtown Pasadena.

God was so gracious in leading us to a contractor who truly knew how to get the job done well and on time, and in providing us with friends who were so supportive, especially our good friends at Atherton Baptist Homes who offered shelter and fellowship, which was much needed and gratefully received!