You read it right! Thanks to John, who goes to church with us, we only need to hang two more cabinets on the wall and THAT part of the project will be done (pictures pending.)
But don't you know that last Tuesday, as Brooke and I were leaving Elizabeth's house, I received a text massage from Dave. It read, "house fell-need camera-part of floor in den needs replacing." I quickly handed my cell
phone to Brooke for confirmation.
Luckily, we were almost at the house and I was able to personally assess the damage. One day, Matt and Dave, as they were crawling underneath the house, noticed that one beam was leaning over. So, on Tuesday they decided it was time to address the issue. Sure, why not? Not a problem...they thought. So they bravely attacked the problem. They crawled under the house to formulate a plan.
While there it became obvious the problem with the sunken floor was not the leaning pier but a joist split in half. At that point it was determined that a 4'x4' square should be cut in the floor. Lovely!!! So they removed the old floor furnace and placed a pier under the split joist. They also placed 2 new piers to shore up 2 load bearing walls. I am now glad to inform you that, thank God, that's another item we can now gladly scratch off our list of "things to do." Oh by the way, this was only possible because of Matt. As you can see in the picture,
it was a tight fit under the house. I doubt Dave could have done this without Matt. Especially since Dave has been working so many hours at the house, that we've been asking to see more of him. As a result, he's been eating as much as he can - No offense intended Dave!
Dave has been working so hard on the house, for a while now, and he is still going full force. Sometimes, it's hard to believe that one day this project will be 100% completed, but look at the kitchen now...what an improvement! Day in and day out he diligently works on the house and sometimes it seems as if it will never end. I can't imagine working as hard as he has been. He works at his practice all day long, eats dinner, and somehow, gets motivated enough to go to the house to work all alone. Then, every other weekend, while he is not working on the house, he drives all the way to San Antonio to see the kids and me. He never stops. And though all this, I've never heard him complain. On the contrary, he find the good in every situation. Wow, he amazes me! 
But don't you know that last Tuesday, as Brooke and I were leaving Elizabeth's house, I received a text massage from Dave. It read, "house fell-need camera-part of floor in den needs replacing." I quickly handed my cell 
phone to Brooke for confirmation. Luckily, we were almost at the house and I was able to personally assess the damage. One day, Matt and Dave, as they were crawling underneath the house, noticed that one beam was leaning over. So, on Tuesday they decided it was time to address the issue. Sure, why not? Not a problem...they thought. So they bravely attacked the problem. They crawled under the house to formulate a plan. 
While there it became obvious the problem with the sunken floor was not the leaning pier but a joist split in half. At that point it was determined that a 4'x4' square should be cut in the floor. Lovely!!! So they removed the old floor furnace and placed a pier under the split joist. They also placed 2 new piers to shore up 2 load bearing walls. I am now glad to inform you that, thank God, that's another item we can now gladly scratch off our list of "things to do." Oh by the way, this was only possible because of Matt. As you can see in the picture, 
it was a tight fit under the house. I doubt Dave could have done this without Matt. Especially since Dave has been working so many hours at the house, that we've been asking to see more of him. As a result, he's been eating as much as he can - No offense intended Dave!
