I have a contract! ... and other news

For those who have not heard yet, I do have a contract on my Stoneborough Court house. Hallelujah!! I am hoping to close before the end of September, though the contract allows until Oct 7.

The "musty" smell in my garage turned out to just be the damp weather - hallelujah! But in the process of determining that, I did learn that I do have hail damage from one (or more) of the spring hailstorms. There is a roof specialist coming to assess how bad it is (aka if it needs to be replaced). In the meantime, someone has loaned me a dehumidifier to pull some of the excess water from the air in the garage.

The loan of the dehumidifier is a "God story." I had brunch with friends Saturday and one item on my "to do" list for the afternoon was to buy a dehumidifer. On their first stop on errands they were "off to run" they saw another friend of mine & mentioned we had just had brunch and I was headed to buy a dehumidifier. She had one that wasn't being used and immediately sent me a txt. Praise God for friends! Both the one with the dehumidifer & the one who "happened to mention" I was in need of one!

At least I am not like my friend, Joyce, who had both her sump pump and an additional pump going with two people bailing water in addition to that to keep the rain from flooding her basement Friday night / Saturday morning. The "house with the lake view" no longer has the appeal to her it once did! Floridians, of course, realize you don't build basements when the water table is only 6'-8' down. Kansans have NOT figured that out yet!

Wichita would have likely made the national news with the problems caused here Friday & Saturday, if it weren't for the far worse flooding conditions caused by Ike. Our rain did not come from Ike - it was just a line of storms that moved up from the southwest and dropped rain at the rate of over an inch an hour for hours at a time; then would break a bit; and then the next bad wave would hit. It rained from Thursday evening until Saturday morning. We had major streets that were rivers instead. Some of the highways outside of town were closed, including a portion of I35 for a while. In areas within Wichita where the Cow Skin & Calf Skin Creeks go through, some homes had their entire basements filled with water (again!) all the way up to just inches from the main floor. I'm not sure why these are called "creeks" when they can quickly become raging rivers. I guess when they were named and it was just open plains, you simply picked the teepee up and moved it.

I am enjoying the extra time off from work right now and trying to use it wisely. I got one major project (unpacking & organizing the content of the boxes in my storage room) done Friday. Tomorrow, I am going to start on the garage. It will likely be a multi-day project.

I'm doing discipleship two nights a week now plus the class at WSU on Thursday evenings. The class has been interesting so far. Three weeks down; seven to go. The homework is heavier through most of the rest of it, so I will have to focus a little more on that. Plus a few issues to work with in the home owners association of which I am secretary. So ... life's not dull! :-)