Project Warm

After the snow melted a bit we had an opportunity to volunteer with our church for an event called Project Warm and what an amazing blessing (for us!)  Our job was to re-roof a house in desperate need...

(this was the second day - after we took the old roof off)

 (Eric ready to go with his tools!)

I wasn't sure I was going to have the courage to get up on the roof and certainly didn't think I had the skill set to lay shingles, but it really was quite easy to learn, very rewarding to do and a blessing to us to be able to help.

(Karen got off to a bit of a rough start trying to figure out the nail gun - ha ha!)

Eric was running the show inside planning, cutting and installing trim around the entire living area.  (that 12" compound sliding miter saw came in pretty handy!)

We both felt very accomplished, overwhelmed with the reality of the many many (MANY) blessings in our life and the opportunity to help others.  It was a GREAT day!

And to boot the house looked great too - and Miss Mary was very happy! :)

Other Things

Christmas?  Really?!?!  That was the last thing I posted about (a month after it happened?)  Well - there has been ALOT since then.  Nothing earth shaking, ground shattering, or the like.  But snow that shut down the South...

Frightening eh?  Well we took full advantage of our two days off work.  We played in the snow with the dogger (he love catching snowballs), we made chocolate cookies (come to think of it - those are a bit earth shattering - best chocolate chip cookie recipe - EVER), and cleaned out all our kitchen cabinets.  Yup, productive.

YUM!

Now that I've given up TV for Lent - I may just have time to go make another batch of those.  (or keep blogging... lets do that - see you tomorrow!)