the back deck...

in process, of course...

coming along, Cliffton...

Good job, Honey!

We'll call it complete when we have railings and stairs...

and maybe a hanging basket or two filled with gorgeous flowers?

;)

Before & after...

This is before ~ last year...

And praise the Lord this is after ~ this year!

Thank you, Lord, again for all.
♥

***this is what my Cliffton does in his spare time***

♥ HaPpY FaThEr'S DaY, DaD ♥

Thank you, Lord for a Dad who cares for all our needs...

He's a new Dad here but he knows just what it takes to be a great provider

Here, Dad looks on as Kasha finds her birthstone ring he picked out

and here, Dad gets to reap the benefits of his faithfulness in attendence at church services and in taking Kasha to music lessons (even when it hurt in more ways than one)

Relaxing at a camp ground in Moose Jaw, SK ~ we all had such a great time, didn't we?

And last year Dad (with the help of his heavenly Father) found us a house to call our own...

Thank you, Lord ~ he's just perfect for us; You knew just what You were doing!

♥

Ephesians 6:2“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with promise

New eavestrough too...

What can I say?

God has blessed us again and we are thankful!

♥

My husband has been VERY busy...

We went from all this to...

to this...

And finally ~ our gorgeous walkway!

I don't think we'll see as much gray dirt in the house...

Thank you, Lord for a hard working husband, the money for the supplies, the great weather, etc...

Lord, you are too good to us! ♥

Day 3 of Cliffton's 4 days off...

this is how our day has been going...

here is our water supply the last few days...

for flushing

This is a Christmas gift for which I'm truly thankful for along with electricity, of course...

yep, a new submersible pump with a price tag of $500

My happy husband ~ okay so he's not thrilled, but he is thankful for Frank, an older electrician neighbor who has been helping for 2 days...

And finally, the CULPRIT/CULPRET...

(not sure of it's male or female) and that determines the spelling, I guess!

It's an old submersible pump that fell down the well and couldn't be retrieved so the well drillers drilled on down thru to submerge a pump that could be accessible. Up til now, this was just a story we heard ~ now, there is truth to it...

Cliffton pulled it up with every once of strength in him and even Frank was surprised at his strength ~ I'm not, I see it all the time ~blush~

So, now the $500 purchase was taken back to Home Hardware and the $ is back in the bank account!

~woohoo~

We're running water again!

And thankful for God's provision of strength, praying friends and answered prayer! ♥

Praising God for a wonderful husband & provider...

This is the sight I came upon after over an hour of silence and dozens of calls and quotes

Here is the open well casing

this is Cliffton hard at work to fix what needs to be fixed for his family

It was going to be $300 for someone to drive out to look and once they found the problem, $40/hr ~ maybe Cliffton should have taken plumbing instead of respiratory! :s

a torch ~ be careful!

And just before dark, we have water... ;)

Today, I'm catching up on laundry before going to work for four evenings.

And me, dirty hair and all ~ happy about the running water!

My God shall supply all your need, according to His riches in Christ Jesus!

I would share my pics if I could but for some unknown to me reason, I can't upload any of the pics even though I sized them down... :s

My husband was just about to leave for his night shift and while brushing his teeth, the water was down to a trickle and then without warning, it stopped all together!

Kash & I had a plan to go shopping with a couple of our gift cards rec'vd as Christmas gifts. We continued on our way, while Cliffton was pretty sure, we had a real problem on our hands... It was dark, so we couldn't look at things and double time for plumbers at 45 mins out of town seemed like it could wait til daytime.

I didn't have to work but I had to get up early ~ our new to us minivan has been given us trouble and we had an appt to bring it in. It was being left and Cliffton needed me to come to drive him home but not before removing some parts from down stairs (pump) to bring in with us.

These parts proved to be okay so off we drove to home with parts and a Tim's coffee in hand to see what else could be causing the "no water" situation.

I felt bad for Cliff, he still hadn't been to bed. :s And did I mention we are under a storm watch and the snow had already started to fall?

He worked at it all day ~ made a trip to Nackawic, got busy and sent me and Kash to Nackawic with a list and then just before dark and the freezing rain, we are proud to announce that after all his hard work and much prayer going on, we have water ~ dirty water but all the same, running water!

♥

I'm very thankful to my Lord for providing a wonderful man that is always looking after his family!

Finally...

Well, I got out my sewing machine and decided to finally get to putting something together for the windows...

that was 3 days ago.

And yeah, I got one done ~ see?

Here's how I'm feeling after 3 days ~ did I mention, I'm NOT a seamstress?

Yes, is a huge struggle for me. I don't use pins, patterns, etc. I usually try to buy something with lines and use them as a guide!

But this looks good ~ just don't let an accomplished seamstress look too close...

~eek~

Here they are!

There is a 3rd window but I'm not that happy with it, yet; the topper seems a bit large for the size of the window.

I'll show that one another day!

;)