Weekend Woundup and Weview #31

I have pictures for the Weekend Woundup and Weview and not much time for anything else. Maybe I can at least give you a summary and tell you more about the major weekend projects in posts later this week.

Friday was the day the block walls went up in Odie's closet which will double as a safe room for her during storms. These guys worked very hard and very long.

I will have lots more pictures of that with a full description another day.

We put regular fiberglass batt insulation in a few walls to help with sound proofing between some rooms. Steve and Kelly Jo were a big help with that and did the most of it themselves.

Odie took some pictures of Deidre and Ben's wedding shower next door at Dodds fellowship hall Friday evening. Those pictures are posted a little further down. After the shower several folks helped us clean up and get ready for drywall first thing the next morning.

Since the block was finished it was time for the last pocket door frame to be installed. Dad and I took care of that.

Here are the pictures Odie took of the wedding shower.

Saturday morning several men from Kentucky and Indiana came to hang the drywall in the house.

While they were working hard inside, my Dad was working hard outside.

Kelly Jo was fascinated by the stilts

We had a few visitors Saturday as well.

Bro. Jimmie Radcliffe made it in Saturday afternoon and it was wonderful to see him again. He has been gone way too long!

Saturday evening a bunch of folks jumped in to clean the house once the drywall was up. I was "kilt" and sat outside in the shade so I do not even know who all was working. I know that Kelly Jo, Steve, Karen, Deidre and Lisa were all involved.

Sunday morning we were with Pastor Wade Hicks and his church in West Harrison, Indiana. We walked smack dab into the middle of the presence of God there Sunday and it was wonderful to feel and behold!

Sunday night we were in Brooks, Kentucky with Pastor Phillip Webb. We went to hear Pastor David Webb preach and we had a great time with all of them too.

Thank you for reading today. I will have more information later.

Davy

View From the Front Window July 28, 2017

First things first, today is the birthday of a very special person in our lives. Today is my Mother's birthday.

Happy, Happy Birthday, Mother Dear!

Here are the links from our posts this last week.

Friends For A Lifetime

Block and Drywall

Jimmie Radcliffe

Super Tuesday

The Water Line

Weekend Woundup and Weview

I am excited to show the tremendous view for this week. Several guys from Kentucky came to hang the drywall Saturday. This is Odie in her bedroom! 

What a view!!!

I will have more about that whole process later this week.

I hope you have a tremendous Sunday.

Davy

Friends For A Lifetime

Hey Friends, 

This is Odie checking in on another Saturday. We have had a very good week here on the home front. Both Tuesday and Thursday night we were in wonderful services at our home church. I love it when God comes down and blesses Dryden Road Pentecostal church in a very special way. It was great to be home and experience the move of God with them! 

For this post I wanted to rewind a few weeks. Earlier this month, I was able to spend several hours with two of my favorite people. These ladies are some of my dearest and closest friends. I am blessed to have them in my life! 

Odie, Deidre Boggs and Lisa Isaacs

Red Lobster was on the menu for the evening. It was absolutely delicious. I am hungry again just looking at these pictures. 

Also I thought I would give you a little peek into our process of trying to get a good picture. Let's just say we were laughing a lot, Oh the memories!

When we are together, no matter what we are doing, it is always a blast. When I get with Deidre and Lisa there is always laughter, maybe a few tears, possibly an impromptu prayer meeting and usually good food is involved somewhere in the mix. Our good times together often become blog material.

Life most of the time has all three of us going in different directions. It is nice when our schedules align enough for some girl time. Things will change even more in October when Deidre gets married. We are trying to savor every moment we get to be together.

I am privileged to have Deidre and "Mama Lisa" in my corner. I know no matter where I am or when it is, I can make a phone call or send a text message and these girls will be praying for me. They will do everything they can to help me through life. We will stick together through the good times and the bad! They will always be my friends for a lifetime!

Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Odie 

Block and Drywall

The next two days are big days at the house. Today the block layers are coming to lay some block. The walk-in closet will double as a safe room so that Odie can take refuge in the event of bad storms. This is something we really wanted to include since Odie can not flee the house easily at all.

We were hoping the block would be laid in June but we are glad to get it now. They should be able to finish in one day. Once they are finished I have one more set of pocket door hardware to hang. We left it out so the block layers did not have to work around it but it needs to be in place by Saturday morning.

The second big thing this weekend is drywall. Bro. Corwin Cain is bringing a crew to hang the sheetrock and begin to finish it on Saturday. That is really exciting for us. Once it is finished we can help Kelly Jo's Dad start slinging paint. Once the paint is started we can hang cabinets and make this place start looking like a house. 

While the block is being laid, the sheetrock is supposed to be delivered early this morning so we will have a lot of activity. We have cleared room for the sheetrock to lay in the floor and we have tried to make room near all the walls to hang it. We have a little more to do on that and I need to insulate a few interior walls for sound today. The plumber has a little more to do as well.

With all that needs to be completed, I better get to work.

Thanks for reading.

Davy

Jimmie Radcliffe - A Family Member Coming Home

Bro. Jimmie Radcliffe will be here again soon and we are super excited to see him. We have missed him terribly. I think someone may need to shorten the distance between Ohio and Oklahoma. I was going to make a joke about removing Illinois but I have too many friends there.😁 Plus Jimmie is originally from Illinois and he may want to stop and see his family.

Jimmie and his parents and one of his brother's family have prepped the big tent trailer and loaded it up with cabinets for the house.

Then Bro. Jimmie picked up the metal door for Odie's safe room and all of the interior doors in Oklahoma City.

Each one of these items has a great  story to tell and the stories will be told in good time. Right now, we can hardly wait to see the big truck and trailer pull into the Lazy OD Ranch again. 

It was a sad day for me personally and for my girls when Bro. Jimmie pulled out last November.

The smile turned upside down and my eyes started leaking when his truck and trailer rounded the curve and started heading for Sapulpa, Oklahoma.

All will be well soon! AND we are so happy about it!

Stop in and see us!

Davy

A Super Tuesday

We really had a great day yesterday. It was so good, that I will label it a super Tuesday without a doubt.

Drywall will be hung soon in the house so there are several things that need to be completed before then. One of those things is the pocket door hardware. The house we are building for Odie has seven pocket doors. Three of them are 36" and four of them are 42". Learning how to install the hardware was the main task Tuesday.

I have never installed pocket door hardware before so it is a learning process. Plus the 36" and the 42" are different brands and even different designs. That means we are learning it all twice. Between me and Dad, I think we just about have it.

This is the 36" door between the kitchen and the utility room. Originally this door was drawn to be a 42" door but as the plans developed it was evident there was not enough room.

Bro. Bennie Sutherland, our Pastor, came by the house today with Renae and Jacqueline Coffman. It was great to see them and to drink a little salsa while they were in town.

It was Renae and Jacqueline's first trip to Acapulco. That is hard to believe!

Bro. JR Alexander preached great at Dryden Rd. Tuesday night. The sermon was definitely a Word from the Lord for us and our home church.

God worked in miraculous ways in the altar service for over two hours. It was awesome and was a tremendous way to top of a super Tuesday! We are looking for more great things today.

Thanks for reading.

Davy