Saving $$

Tuesday, March 21, 2017

red maple
Red maples are about to start dropping seeds

Today started as another glorious spring day. That’s 2 in a row. More and more of the trees are budding out and the grass is growing. Love spring!! It was another stay at home day and more walking. Max needs to continue to walk to work out the soreness so we did about 3.5 miles today. He can’t pick up anything heavy, but the more he walks the better. He is continuing to improve although not as fast as he would like.

What’s the $$ about? Well Anne’s brother Sonny always says that you need to really check out your insurance every few years just to keep everyone honest. We decided to review Fred’s policy which is up for renewal next month. We received the renewal notice and new rate last week. It seemed it was up another couple of hundred again this year. Are we the only ones that seem to have always increasing rates? Anyway, today we carefully reviewed the policy – the agreed upon rate on the rig was way above the current value. It was the value about 5 years ago. So by reducing the value we saved about $1,000.00. Not saying you can do that every time you review a policy but everyone really should take time to review every 3 years or so. This applies to all your insurance – home owners, auto, life and health. We all get too busy to do this and it costs us money. And insurance sometimes makes us feel very incompetent – constantly have to look up definitions. But – the investment of some time really paid off this time. Tomorrow we see the surgeon for follow up. Praying for a good report.

Improving

Monday, March 20, 2017

Sorry for the gap in posting. Last week was pretty exhausting for both of us. We wanted to get home and get Max repaired ASAP, but things moved even faster than we expected. We are thankful for that even if it was exhausting.free ice cream cone We got no sleep Thursday night, but things have improved each day since then. Today we decided to get out for the first time. It was free ice cream cone day at Dairy Queen. Couldn’t pass up free ice cream – especially Dairy Queen. So we went to DQ, and picked up a few things at the grocery store. It went pretty well, but still certainly not 100%. However, our surgeon assures us that we will be ready for our Camp Sumatanga project in two weeks and we are looking forward to that.

We have been in contact with our team in Cedartown and they made good progress Wednesday and Thursday. Also, the current leaders at Elmore City updated their blog if you want to see the progress continuing to be made on the home we worked on there. Looks like they may finish by sometime next week. We would love to be there to see the finished project. Hopefully, we will get some pictures to share with you. Hope everyone has a good week and thanks to all of you for the prayers, texts and emails. We could certainly feel them. Please continue to pray for complete recovery.

God Is So Good!

Wednesday, March 15, 2017

drone view of campground
Frank braved the cold to capture this drone view of the campground for us.

Feeling very blessed this evening.

joyce and ken sharing devotion
Joyce and Ken sharing a moving devotion that led to a discussion of the film “The Shack” that some of the team went to see last night.

This morning we got up and continued packing up FRED preparing to return home. We went to devotion time with the team where Ken and Joyce had a thought provoking devotion. We then told the team we would be leaving and said sad goodbyes. Harry and Frank helped get our ladder on the truck and while doing that we noticed the ice on the dumpster.

temperature this morning
The temperature this morning. (Actually it said 23, but changed just as the picture was taken.)

It was really cold this morning. We were so thankful that we had no frozen pipes. We went back to the campground to finish packing and pulled out about 9:15.

We had and uneventful drive home and while driving my scheduler from Cullman Internal Medicine called to say she had been able to get us an appointment with the surgeon today at 3:30. That was wonderful news. We arrived at home, got ourselves parked, plugged in and started unloading. It was soon time to drive to Cullman for our appointment. The even more wonderful news is that our surgeon will be able to perform the surgery tomorrow morning! He plans to use a block rather than general anesthesia, do the surgery laparoscopically, and said there will be about a 3 week recovery. All of this is such a blessing!!! We should be back on the road soon! We have remained in contact with our MHCC team and they have now got a replacement for us, a couple that were headed back north but due to the severe weather would like to stay in the south a few more weeks. We are so glad they won’t be working short handed. Blessings on blessings. God is SO GOOD!