Happy Easter - Resurrection Day!
The day celebrated when Christ rose from the dead, snatched the keys from Hades and ascended into Heaven!
I thank the Lord for Salvation through Christ's shed blood, the final and ultimate atonement for our sin. "For without the shedding of blood, there is no atonement for sin". Blood sacrifice was God's ordained way, Christ was the sinless sacrifice that can wash you sin away into a sea of forgetfulness. Thank you Lord!
Of course, we are going to church this morning. After what they said last week, we will assume the parking lots will be full and I will probably be leaving a little early to get a space somewhere to park. And then, proceed to the front row as they asked last week. You know how it is, you haven't gone to church in a long time or maybe have never gone, but you want to be a part of an Easter celebration, you stand or sit in the back of the church? So, endeavor to make it more comfortable for them to experience a service that will undoubtedly be about the sacrifice Christ made and about how you can experience salvation for yourself, become a new creation in Christ and have your name written in the Lamb's Book of Life!
Do you believe all of that? Absolutely I do! Without hesitation or doubt!
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I look forward to this coming week. Why? Well, to continue work with the shed, yes but also to say goodbye to much of what happened this week. It wasn't all bad, definitely, but there was enough bad spots I'd just like to turn the page. I have wonderful taxes to do this week and I will be without a vehicle for probably 2 weeks starting Tuesday. Yayyy! It won't be all bad. I'll stay home a couple of days, get these taxes figured out to the best of my ability and get it over with. That's tax return, projected tax for the IRS and whatever the comptroller of the state is demanding, some document you must file to show your earnings and such - even if you made no money at all.
The shed will be put on hold while I do that. It will also be put on hold to mow the grass, which has grown quite abundantly. I really need a riding mower.
But I will try to get some of the walls up for the bathroom tomorrow so that at least it can be used. The sewer line? No idea, I'll get to that when it dries up a bit more. A lot more, actually, lol. I will be taking a complete change of clothing over there tomorrow with me to keep available for when I can get that done. Including a nice towel so I can wash that stuff off of me before changing clothes. Well heck, if I get the walls up, I can actually take a shower over there!
It really shouldn't take too long to get those walls up, but I do want to run the wiring in there first. Even that shouldn't take more than a couple of hours. Well, maybe longer since I've added a few more outlets to the equation. Make that half a day lol. I tend to be very cautious about wiring - there really isn't any room for errors. Get the wiring done right the first time and triple check it. I've already got the wiring over on that side of the shed, just need to drill more holes through the wood to get it to where I need it, namely, nest to the door to the bathroom for a switch and then up to the ceiling and install a light and down to the floor for a regular outlet.
It doesn't sound like much until you start looking at it. Now is the time to get it done, now that I have most of the framing up.
There is still quite a lot to do in that shed. It's basically building a house but in a shed.
None of this even includes a kitchen - I still want one and I want to at least get the water and electrical and drain pipe lines run to that area before I close it in with drywall. But, that can wait. In fact, I have so many "top" priorities this coming week, it's hard to decide which to do first. I think installing that other camera is right up there as well as mowing the grass again.
Anyway, unless I get a wild hair, I am doing nothing over there today. I mean, it would be good to at least get the grass mowed in the dog park area today tho. That's a large area and the grass has grown so much.
Fortunately for me, the guy that didn't know how much longer he is staying has paid for another month and still doesn't know when they are sending him somewhere else, only that he is probably staying long enough to warrant paying another month in advance.
I'm getting views on my Facebook ads, no bites on those, yet. It was interesting that a rash of inquiries didn't come in at the end of last month. In fact, the whole thing is interesting in that inquiries stopped about the same time I lost 2 tenants. I dunno, maybe I need to lower the price back down again. That's what seemed to make people interested, it's just that prices that low are not really tenable when thinking about summer electric bills - which is just around the corner.
It's a hard place to be in, trying to wait and hope a few people will show up to take 2 more spots or go down in price - but hamstring my profits once those high electric bills come in.
Well, anyway, it's time to get ready for church.
