~Early Roofin~

Was a quiet morning, until 7:30 am.. I was sitting at my desk,

doing email and I hear this loud BANG!.. and scared the day

lights out of me.. was Kenny, he put the ladder up against the

front porch.. I know he said early.. I didn't even see him pull up

in the yard .. I found out real fast he was here! I do that every

day though with the mail.. I know the mail comes about 3 every

day.. and I look at the time, and think about it even, but when

that lid slams down on that box. I jump every time! The cats don't

any more :-) Kenny left and I have no idea what the status is on

the roof..what stage its in..I will ask Penny when she comes in

tomorrow. We are going to start working on the stuff in the base

ment.. Its really bothering me all that material down there and

its not protected..

Im going to have Penny get some good strength plastic bags

and transfer it from the box into a bag..be a lot easier..and so

much safer for it.. I have such a fetish for material..my sis does

too.. we could spend hours looking at it and touching it..thinking

of all the things we could make out of it.. She is moved into her

new house and the first room she worked on to get things put

away of course, was her sewing room.. I know for a fact that she

could steady sew till she dies and not use up the material she

has shes got so much.. I have a lot.. Mine is mostly Silk and

Cotton.. that's what I mainly use...Material will soak up the odor

from a basement..like the smell of a fire if cloth is in it.. the

smell will never come out.. a special chemical has to be used..

When I had divorced my first husband I moved into a small

one bedroom house something like this.. I woke early in the

morning to intense heat , opened my eyes and my kitchen was

totally engulfed in flames.. like looking into a furnace when

you opened the door.. I barely made it to the outside.. When

it was finally out and the fireman were gone..they told me not

to take anything out of it..that they would put a chemical in it

and that would take out the burning smell.. I don't remember

a lot of the after, I was in such shock and just devastated, it was

awful.. the feel of that heat and not be able to escape and you

feel your lungs just not getting any air..its a horrible feeling...

I had finally managed to get the door unlocked and ran across

the street to the neighbors and sat and watched as the firemen

worked on putting the fire out..was faulty wiring..my dishes that

I kept in the cupboard used to get so hot sometimes from

being in side there.. When we walked back over there to look

at the damage, the whole inside of the house was gutted..there

was nothing left untouched.. My TV had actually melted into a

pile.. my lampshades were just wires there.. I saw an old picture

that was on the wall.. I remember thinking how glad I was that it

had survived.. as I reached out to take it down to take with me,

it crumbled in my hands..and fell to the floor.. I looked at it laying

there, and looked around my burnt house, everything gone.. and

I cried.. my first thoughts.. like they were that night I looked down

and saw the empty space where my leg had been.. "What the

HELL are you gonna do now?"

Its been a trip let me tell ya.. not too much I havent really felt or

seen or gone thru.. A lot.. nothing I regret..because I made the

decisions to do what I did, so was my choice..I made the wrong

decision sometimes though.. but that's life and living and I did

learn from those wrong decisions.. I guess I learned pretty good,

Im making it thru one of the biggest challenges ive had so far.. I

say so far.. I hope I have no more ahead..but well..if I do..which

Im pretty sure I will.. All I can do is like I have been ..pull up my

invisible pants legs and just step over the crap and just keep

on rollin.... works for me.. :-)

Speaking of rolling.. I have some leftover pot roast.. and I am

hungry..lunch was a salad, I ate the tomatoes and hard boiled

egg and that was it.. Ohh I want you to know.. I have 2 ..as in

TWO tomatoes out there hangin..yes I do!! and boy.. I am

watching them too..Kenny get too close, well he would rather

do something ugly and fall in it than damage those plants

with that stuff hes throwing around out there.. I have plans for

those beauties.. I am patiently waiting.. Time for some dinner,

time for TV and some good relaxing, I had a most wonderful
visit with my company that left me feeling very good, we had
such a very very nice visit...friends are a wonderfulthing..
Im really fortunate to have such great ones.. "NiteyNite"

Y'all have a good one now, Y'hear? love ya and THANKS !!! :-)

Always, Lois ****

God Bless you, is my prayer today,

I'm so honored to call you "friend";

I pray the Lord will keep you safe,

Until I write again.....