Just a brief update

We attempted to drive to the farm on Wednesday. We called Denny to let him know we would be down. He said he felt the roads were too bad. We shopped in Ft. Wayne where the streets had been cleared, and where we only took our lives in our hands on our own driveway and on the streets in our housing development.

While we were shopping at a Lumber Liquidators we found by accident when we rented a van for this Saturday at a van rental across the street from it, Denny called to advise us not to even attempt the drive...that we would not be able to make it up the hills in the area of the farm and campground. He had already carried a ladder to the camper from his homestead to use in an attempt to remove some of the limbs from the top of the camper. He was unable to even drive his van into the campground. That was quite a nice hike for him...carrying a ladder to boot! He had left the limb that had punctured the top of the camper in place so as not to expose a large hole that would allow water into the camper. He found a dent in the roof of the camper near where one of the limbs had punctured the awning. He planned to go back after his lunch to place a large garbage can inside the camper to catch the drips that would be coming through the roof as the ice melted. The ice was quite thick on the top of the roof.

We made arrangements to meet Denny tomorrow, Saturday, to try to get a tarp over the top of the camper. Bonnie will be picking up the rental van and going to Sears to pick up the water heater and transporting it to the cottage. We picked up the microwave and reverse-osmosis system from Sears on Wednesday and also purchased some additional lighting from Lowes. Bonnie still has at least one more light she wants to purchase for the half bath in the loft.

We will be meeting with Rex tomorrow to discuss the need for additional wiring due to the extra light fixtures we have purchased. Rex will soon be leaving for China, so we will be without his services for a while as he and Leann spend time with their oldest son, daughter-in-law, and grandchildren in China.

Once again Sears chose a late afternoon-early evening time slot to deliver the dishwasher tomorrow. So, for the fourth time, we have rescheduled the delivery for a week from tomorrow.

Tomorrow, if it is muddy, Denny has graciously offered the use of his garage for temporary storage of the items we bring down. If it isn't muddy, we will maneuver them into the basement of the cottage.

Bonnie is busy with rehearsals and performances for our church's Boars Head Festival Production, so her evenings are tied up through Monday night.