The Greenup Family

A new panorama; it feels like we’re so close, but there are SO many things left to do.


Not much time though.

“An epic adventure”? Maybe.
After work, I went down to Windsor Plywood to get a few more ballisters and some door molding. Our truck is dying, and doesn’t really start on its own, so I took care to park pointing downhill, incase I needed to use the clutch to jump the motor.
Just when I was feeling good about having thought ahead, I realized I forgot my wallet. Since Windsor would be closed by the time I went back home and came back, I called my wife and got her to pack up the kids and come down.
After getting only the ballisters, we decided to go on to Costco for dinner, then go on to get the molding. Unfortunately, Michele left before I did, and I failed to get the truck started on the meager hill I found. I was surprised to find that I could actually push that behemoth… 10 feet until I got to the hump of the street. After the third try, a helpful guy from the store came out and helped me push it enough to pop the clutch and get it going. A humbling experience, when your vehicle sucks SO BAD that even the measures you take to overcome its weaknesses (parking on a hill) don’t get the job done. I feel bad that others have to be inconvenienced because I can’t take care of myself or have a vehicle that runs well. That’s pride for you, though.
The Lord took care of me. He sent the man from the store to help me, and though the pickup made three more stops before I got home tonight, He gave me enough hill (and skill) to get it started each time. (Michele made even more stops… she was there to lend a hand at most of my stops, if needed, but she also hauled all 4 kids into Lowe’s twice besides )

Praise the Lord, because He takes care of me… For the big things I can’t take care of, like salvation, and the little things I also can’t, like a truck that won’t start. He even gives me wonderful (not too painful, just humbling) object lessons as reminders!

“…whoever believes in (trusts in, clings to, relies on) Him shall not perish (come to destruction, be lost) but have eternal (everlasting) life.”
May I remember to (trust in, cling to, rely on) Him always.

more progress

we’ve been staining trim every night, so there hasn’t been a lot of time for play, like website updates; but that’s the way of it sometimes. Too busy living to talk about it.

It’s getting closer to time to move in, unfortunately someone’s beat us to it:

Hopefully he won’t like it as well when we get to painting and the smell gets overwhelming, and then hopefully not too long after, we can get things shut up.

Here’s another panorama at the site, with the viewpoint taken from inside the kitchen, standing in front of where the stove will be.

You can click and drag in the viewport below to “look around”, or control-click or shift-click to zoom.

But it might just be one of those situations where “you’ve got to be there to feel it”