homebuilding in da ‘hood
I have been reading Erwin McManus’ book Soul Cravings. Skimmed it through once quickly, and now am going through it again more slowly, digesting it bit by bit. Good stuff. I highly recommend it.
Like all good writing, parts of it hurt when I read it. Like in Entry 1 of Destiny, […]
Today I was able to attend about half of Spirituality in the Academy, an InterVarsity conference for grad students and faculty. It was at USC, so I just walked over.
First of the highlights was running into Rich Lamb, serving behind the scenes and making the event happen! I helped him bring the lunch […]
The inevitable has happened: we’ve run out of money (again). We saw it coming, and had already put Plan B into action: borrow against our unfinished home and land, and use that money to finish the house.
Now the bad news: we can’t get the loan. Three different appraisers have tried and failed to […]
Yaay, the radiant floor panels from Warmboard arrived yesterday! Now they are all moved into the house and stacked according to kind (Straight Run, Right Turn, Left Turn, and Double Turn).
Boy, that was easy to say, wasn’t it? The reality was quite different.
I realized just two days before the delivery that this shipping company […]