On the Hill

Things are different here on our little hill.

We've had a shakey dining room, sometimes den, floor. About 6 weeks ago I called John Allen, a man in Jackson known for restoring old houses ... ours is 50 this year ... our deal was that when it rained he'd send his men ... and how much notice did I need.

I said not any, just call. He said, "You mean I can call any morning and come right then." YES!

So Monday they called, but Brother thought it was the 2 lawyers from the man that is sueing us because he ran off the bridge with the log truck. His position is the bridge wasn't wide enough.

Three hundred trucks of gravel went in and out over the bridge that summer. The other log trucks were going in out every day. Everyone in front of him and every truck after him crossed the bridge, even Brother.

The moral of that is ... if you run off the interstate and the police try to fine you or something, sue them because the road isn't wide enough.

So ... anyway ... the carpenters showed up Monday instead of the lawyer. I though we could take up the carpet and the plywood in the closet floor like we did before when we jacked it up. Sonny had that plywood so tight we couldn't get a chisel in it. So they cut a hole big enough to go through and make an inspection.

We now have over about a third of the dining room floor adjacent to that closet wall torn out, as well as the joists, all of it.

The duct work under the house where we are working looks pretty bad. Heat/air man was here today about that. We'll repair what we can. I wanted to chuck it all and put in a new system in the attic. That seems cost prohibitive at this time, but may be something we do in the future.

Larry Ketchum, who does our carpet and floors came out today and took a piece of tile like that in my kitchen, util room and bath. Called back and said he could still GET IT. So that solves a big problem. We'll put tile back in the dining room and at the bar where we eat and down the hall pass Brother's office door. It will be much cleaner and better looking than the dirty carpet we have now.

Maybe the carpenters and duct men will finish this week, hopefully tomorrow or by noon Thursday. Don't know when Larry will get to us. We have to move the rest of the dining room furniture somewhere, get the old carpet up ... hope Larry will do that ... and scrape up the rest of the original tile from when the house was built.

During this time I've added sources to thousands of people in my genealogy data base ... I broke the first rule ... did not source correctly to begin with.

And have been researching religious history on the internet and find I'm woefully ignorant of what has gone on since AD 30. My focus now is on the psalms, hymns, songs and instrumental music and position that is taken by some who hold to only using the Inspired Psalms in the Old Scriptures and not man written songs. I haven't found the man written ones that were sung to bar (pub) tunes, but I know they are there somewhere.

I was equally suprised at how many Rock and Rap musicians use songs we consider holy. I want to do more research on this.

And then I found this:
http://upchucky.net/~upchucky/worship-psalm23.html

Peace