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On my last post I said that "today is the "last" day that contractors will be there to work" and true to the pattern they didn't get everything done. I have determined that in general people just don't do what they say they are going to do! It has been extremely frustrating. We are planning on today being the "last" day. They have to finish the back steps going from the top deck to the patio. We can not pass inspections without those. That is the finale' for inspection. But they do also need to finish the back screened in porch, we can pass inspection without that. They will finish the steps today and then the inspector can come tomorrow and we can get possession for Wed.


1/7/10-6/21/08 Lydia Yoder
My Great Aunt Lydia ( Aunt "Lydi" as we called her) died early Sunday morning. She was 98 years old and was very ready to go. She was like a 3rd grandma to me as she lived with my grandma for as long as I can remember. Some memories I have of her...

1. Black "grandma shoes."
2. White hair always up in a bun, but if we stayed over night we got of glimpse of it down and it was long!
3. Crocheting...she was always croteching. She made me some beautiful crotehed hangers for my wedding. I still cherish them. (I do not know how to spell that word so I spelled it 3 different ways...it is so wrong that spell check couldn't even figure out what I was trying to spell!)
4. She always treated us like her own grandchildren.
5. She and I my grandma took turns cooking the HUGE meals that were required when all the family came for supper, which seemed often.
6. Ice-cream and crackers for dessert.

Her funeral will be Wed. also and Jeff is preaching that. That is at 12:00, by the time the "festivities" are done it will be 5 (it is truly a great thing that she passed as she was ready to go a decade ago and she herself could never understand why God kept her here so long).

We are planning on a crew to meet us at our old house to help us move beginning at 6 Wed. night! We will move all week and then Jeff has to preach a wedding Sat. night, and we leave Sunday after church to go to Illinois for Jeff's parents 50Th wedding anniversary celebration. We will return sometime Tuesday. We will return to a house totally in boxes. Oh well, God has been so faithful throughout this process as I prayed ardently for timing in all this!!!! The timing had to be perfect in when we sold our house and when our new house would be done...I also prayed that we would have several weeks to move and not to have to get out in like a weekend...we do we have about 2 weeks...I even prayed that we would sell the girls' bunk beds with the right timing. We didn't want to sell them too early or the girls wouldn't have beds to sleep in, but we didn't want to buy new bedroom furniture until we sold them! They sold yesterday, so they will only have about 2 nights to sleep on the floor. God works out all of the details of our lives, even non important in the grand scheme of things ones.

My friend Rose, who is a reader of this blog on the east coast is going to lose her dad from cancer this week. He is in his last days. Rose and I were GREAT friends in high school and still remain great friends. Would all of you pray for her family as they say their good-byes. (Side note: Mom and Dad: that would be Harold Bender)

Have a great week!