Good evening and it really is

Compared to last night this night is much better.  When people you love are in trouble then it is hard to sleep or concentrate until you have helped them.  That is the case and tonight we all sleep easier.

This afternoon I drove to Fairfield to see a little sale, a little rough around the edges still a good value and a solid house.  As I was leaving I detected that I was very low on blood sugar and hurried as fast as I could to a SubWay where I enjoyed a flat bread sandwich.  Then I felt much better.

I would appreciate your prayers in my behalf as important changes are taking place, changes that I'll share at some point in the future.  Life is very good, lets just say that.

Sending love to all,

Kallie turned 6 this evening and we celebrated at the local pizza place with good food and lots of classy presents.  She is a happy normal girl, both girls are fun to be around.  Tomorrow the cousins are coming to visit and for 4 hours Kallie's party will take over the City Center with its huge pool and large play areas.  Should be fun, Nikki thinks there might be 50 people as Kallie's whole classroom has been invited, it seems to be the custom at this school.

Sending love to all,

Tim

Need your prayers

I'm having a very rough time this evening and I need your prayers.  Some things I was planning on and hoping for have fallen through and I am deeply in despair.

Please pray that God will lead in the next 12 hours.  I need His guidance and the still small voice.

Thanks

Tim

So tired right now

Good evening, this will be very short since I slept poorly last night and am dead tired now.  I ran out this evening to Berkeley to see a beautiful little house, very nice people and updated perfectly, would you believe, 1200 sf, 2 and 1 will be worth close to $800,000 when I'm done with the report.  Berkeley really  pulls the prices, has a great climate and a great political climate if you happen to like living in communism and the extreme left.  But I find the people to mostly be engaging and delightful with the smell of weed here and there.

Now I'm home and enjoying mowing the lawn, trimming the roses and getting ready for my very special guest.  She is not set to arrive on Friday afternoon in SF about 3 and I can hardly wait.  I may not even blog on Friday night!  Who knows.

Love

Tim

Tuesday evening

Good evening,

Well its been sort of a tense day for me personally.  I'm nearly out of work so there is little to do, at least not as much as I enjoy doing. 

My friend is wrestling with getting a ticket and British Airways keeps raising the price.  I experienced the very same thing last Friday when I drove to SF to try to buy a ticket and the only thing they could sell me was a very expensive ticket.  My friend experienced the very same thing today where she lives when she went to buy her ticket.  It is all in God's hands this evening, a very good place to place things.

Our weather is very warm right now but since I lost the 45 pounds the heat does not have the same effect that it used to have.  I am really very grateful for the weight loss and the much better health, what a huge blessing it has been to me.

I would appreciate your prayers for work, for orders too.  I'm very short on work right now and could use several more orders and soon.

Thank you for being on my team and I hope I'm on your team too.

Love to all

Tim

Monday evening and all is well

Dear Family and Friends,

Today has been a warm one here in Discovery Bay,  This morning I walked and it did not even feel cool though it was 6:30 in the morning.  Through part of my walk I had the privilege of talking with my friend through yahoo messenger and since she is in another country messenger is the only way to keep from paying a fortune for calls.  When I came back I was trying to get things ready in the house and I worked on the shower for awhile but with no luck.  It still looked terrible and the stuff I bought on the internet was a waste, just awful.

I drove over to Rossmore to see a condo and that went very nicely.  Then I drove back, did a bit of grocery shopping at Safeway and then came home to nap a bit.  I was able to chat again for a couple hours with my friend before she went to bed for the night.  During that time the house keepers came. These two guys who were recommended to me by LeAnn, my neighbor, did an incredible job on the house.  Tonight it shines and even the back windows shine.  Should my friend arrive this week she will find a very clean and tidy house, what a huge blessing these guys were today.

My friend often asks me if I am eating and usually I have to say, I had forgotten.  So this time I cooked an ear of white corn, made a nice salad and had a bit of cottage cheese.  It was a delicious meal.

Now its bed time and I'm so ready to sleep.  I went to bed at midnight last night and got up at 5:30 in hopes of a phone call, it didn't come in until later but I was fully awake.  Now I'm sleepy.

Can I ask that you pray for God leading and help in the next couple days.  I do appreciate it very much.

Sending love to all


Tim

Busy Sunday

Dear Family and Friends,
Well this sunday is now in the history books.  This is the first day I've not walked in weeks.  But Kallie was here and I don't leave her and she slept in late.  She needed it and having her was very nice. She enjoys the special attention from being at Papas house.

Her mother came and collected her mid morning. Then I went to an appointment at Bethel Island where I'm helping with a very difficult appraisal, the man is appealing a problem with the county and needs my professional help.  He is a pretty amazing man and I enjoyed my time with him this morning, I also will enjoy the check he gave me.  It helps a lot.

I planted more flowers this evening in the flower bed I've created, just hope they do well and I just remembered I need to put a row of snail bait out or I'll lose some tonight.  Nasty little buggers. 

This afternoon I am working on an appraisal for a condo in the Oakland hills, very nice little place in a nice setting.  I've also had the chance to speak to my friend Art and briefly to my brother but he was busy playing Mexican Train dominos, a very fun thing to be doing.

So now its time to go to sleep, so thankful for God blessings and always appreciate your prayers for His guidance in my life as I move forward in faith.

Love to all,

Tim

Good evening

What can I say about today?  It was a very different kind of Sabbath for sure.  In anticipation of a special friends arrival I determined to do something quite different today than normal.  First off I went to see Kallie play TBall.  she did great and got some nice hits, who knows if the parents enjoy the time together more than the children?  Its a good experience.  Then after a quick stop at Starbucks for a decaf I switched out the wall AC in my bedroom with a newer one I picked up nearly a year ago on clearance.  Then I started looking in the third car garage for a special green colored paint, the paint that is on the walls of the dining and living room.  When Nan died we eventually took her  92 gallon reef tank down and Steve was able to find a new home for it. But when Dana and I painted the living and dining rooms the tank was in place so we had to leave a huge white wall behind and beside the tank, once the tank was gone there was this glaring white wall surrounded by green.  I could not locate the green paint, I even went to town to the hardware store to ask if they had a record of what color we used but they did not.  What to do about the white wall?  I tried a sampler they had but it was too blue.  When I picked up Kallie for her promised sleep over I discussed my situation with Steve.  I had searched in the garage for several hours, found many cans of paint but none were right.  He kindly came back with me and started searching.  I was very discouraged and bowed my head to pray, Lord please help us find the green paint and at that moment Steve called out to say he thought he had found the green paint.  He had indeed found a box with three cans of green paint.  One was the right color and a perfect match.  Then Steve proceeded to grab supplies, roller, paint holder and in a few minutes he had painted the entire walls, the white spots were gone and the new paint looks great.  Once we cleaned up then we went locally to our pizza place and had a nice meal of salad and pizza.  Then we came back and he helped get Kallie's room cooled down and ready for bed.  He tucked Kallie in, helped me solve what was wrong with the power stair chair and then went home.  So it was a different kind of Sabbath but I feel very comfortable in the improvements we have made today to this home and to our life.  The moment I will long remember was when Steve said he had found the paint as I was praying for that very thing.

Love to all

Tim