Micah and I went to a house auction today. We were not even close to in the money. House sold for $24,000 over our top bid. The investors stopped at the same place we would have. The remaining 2 bidders both looked like they were in their 80s. I told Micah it proved I would still be out there buying houses 30 years from now.
Micah spent the rest of the day putting up sheet rock while I worked on updating the electrical
There were only 2 outlets in the living room and a room we are turning into a bedroom. That is not enough outlets for today's electronic culture. It was easy to add outlets since we had some walls with the plaster torn out by the previous owner.
Although it can be a bit tricky to get a hole drilled through the floor into the basement without hitting anything. I first drilled down and hit a 6x6 beam. Good planning Royce. So I moved over a couple of inches and hit an eight inch joist. I was able to drill at an angle and finally get a hole into the basement.
There was a junction box close by and I could make the outlets go live. Yea me!
We are putting a walk in closet in the new bedroom, so we needed a light in it. This time I could take the power from an outlet in the wall. Run it up to a switch and then up to where the light will be.
As you can see, we still have some work to do inside this closet. We can not finish it off until we have the new HVAC installed. There will be a new heat run through this closet to the upstairs bedrooms. We are putting in Central Air and it takes a good sized run to get cold air to the second story.
The was no ceiling light in the room we are making the master bedroom. I cut a hole in the ceiling and was able to fish a wire to the center of the room. Ran a wire from the basement up to a switch in the wall and then through the studs above the door. We take having ceiling lights for granted, but there was a time when many houses did not have them.
We are replacing all the windows in the house. making them shorter as well.
Once the sheet rock is on around the windows they look like they were always this size.
From the outside they don't look so good yet. They will look kind of sketchy until we reside the house next year. We are also closing in 3 windows.
There were 2 large windows in the bathroom. That is really more exposure than one needs. We will be putting a linen closet in where the west window was.
Several neighbors stopped by to tell me they were glad I had replaced the broken door.
It was a week of replacing windows and putting in lights. The new windows might be smaller but they are insulated double glass windows and will keep the cold and the heat out. They will still allow plenty of daylight into the house while being energy efficient.
We take light for granted. Walk into a room and trip the switch by the door and the room lights up. We can see as well at night as we can during the day. What an amazing invention. Imagine what life would be like at this time of the year if all the light we had was a candle or a lantern. It would be a long dark winter.
Some of us are used to the light of salvation. We have known Jesus as our savior since we were small children. We have always had light in our lives. For many that is not true. If you want to see someone who is excited about knowing God, find someone who has just had their sins forgiven. Someone who was living in the darkness of unforgiven sin.
When you first see the light of salvation it is blinding in its brightness. It has the clarity of brand new windows letting in the truth of God while keeping the evil out. It is a switch that when turned on lights up your whole world.
As we travel into this holiday season may each one of you know the light of God and go share the light with everyone you meet.
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