August is half GONE!

Yikes, so much to do!  (but I still like to take time to blog about it all)

• The ceiling in the garage is all up and mudded (it appears to me)  Just need to finish the attic access, and paint(?)
• Tim brought home the man-door for the garage today  =)  Hopefully they will get it installed before the next rain!  (hmmm, just checked weather ~ 40% chance tonight?)
• He's shopping bids on the vehicle garage doors and thinking we'll be ready for them soon.
• Tim has also been working on rearranging our dirt lately  ;-)  Had a backhoe here one day, a skidsteer another... and started building a retaining wall.
• Kayleb worked on siding today.  The weather was just about perfect!  So nice to be out and enjoy the pleasant level of humidity...
• I was going to bake bread, but the gorgeous day begged me to come outside instead  =)  So I scraped paint off of shelves for one of my old garage sale bookshelves ~ trying to get it fixed up this time before it comes in the house.  Still need to use a sander on them since they had a glaze under the paint, and I want my paint to stick. (Some of the paint on these shelves I was able to peel off with just my finger nails, so you might imagine how easily it stuck to 3-ring binders, blech)

Yesterday (Sunday) was another fun day with good food and great friends here ~ so fun to watch the boys chasing each other across the hay bales...
We concluded the day with another trip to Menards after the evening service ~ so today started a bit late for most of us (and we finally had supper tonight ~8pm even though the beef was leftovers)...

I saw a cute clipart today that sort of sums it me up ~ Let's see if I can cut/paste it in here...

Thank you, Sylvia!  Here's another part of her post on simplicity that caught my eye to share with you as well...

God doesn’t call us to detach ourselves from things … He calls us to attach ourselves to HIM. That is where true simplicity lies; in Jesus Himself. We’ve been led astray by the thought that we need something more than Him.

 May you all have a great week ~ Take time to remember how good our God is!

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