Basement wall Part Du

The repair crew was to be here at 8:00 this morning. But did not show until 11:15 am. They did call saying they would be a couple of hours late.

Pictures of the holes in the garage. They will return to finish the job tomorrow morning.

More to follow....

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Basement wall

This is a couple of pictures of our stairs that go down to the basement.

It is hard to tell from the pictures, but the wall has a crack about 24 inches down. This is because the garage is on the other side of this wall. And the garage floor is pushing the wall in toward the basement. In fact it has move the top 24 to 30 inches of this wall in about 4 inches!

Therefore the crack. The garage floor is being pushed by the driveway. Which is being pushed by the street in front of our house. This is caused the the kinetic energy of the cars and trucks coming to a stop at the stop sign on the opposite side of our house.

Three months ago the city came out and cut the first 8 inches of my driveway and took out the concrete and replaced it with asphalt. This in turn has created a buffer between the street and my driveway.

Now the fun part. I have to take down this wall and take up the carpet on the stairs, so that a crew can come out tomorrow and reinforce the wall. They will drill 4 holes into the wall and insert 14 foot rods through the wall into the ground under the garage floor. Then they will drill 2 foot diameter holes in the garage floor and dig down about 4 feet. They then attach plates at each end of the 4 rods and torque up the rod to reinforce the wall.

I will take and post pictures as the work progresses.

Monday, Monday...

Monday morning. Kalleigh was baptised yesterday and hope to have some pictures with in the next day or two. Ran accross this video. One of my favotites. Hope you enjoy it also.

Still Thanksgiving...

We picked up Natalie this morning, then went by church to clean and fill the baptismal font for Kalleigh's baptism tomorrow.

We are leaving in a bit for my niece Shelly's home for Thanksgiving dinner with my parents, brother, sisters and their families, who could make it to St Louis this weekend.

We will miss those of our family who could not be here this weekend.

Kalleigh's great-grandpa Twente ( my dad), will be baptising Kalleigh tomorrow. Then she will be confirmed by Elder Vicki Gunther and Elder Judy Rice.

I will be giving the sermon.

Yes, I am a member of the priesthood in our church. I know this might seem a little strange for some of you who know me outside the family and church family.

Happy Thanksgiving

We would like to wish all of those who read this blog a very Happy Thanksgiving.

The one Thanksgiving day that stands out is one that happened in about 1990.

I was working as a Ground School Instructor at Trans World Airlines. And that year I had to work Thanksgiving day. We had contract training with an airline from Sweden. And with almost all commercial eating establishments closed at least until evening. The other instructor and I talked to our wives and they agree to fix a Thanksgiving dinner for 20 people.

We had all the traditional eats, turkey, masked potatoes and gravy, cranberry sauce, rolls, salad, string bean casserole, pumpkin pie with whipped cream, etc...

This was the first time for those pilots from Sweden to experience this type of American food. Some were even skeptical of even trying some of the items (cranberry sauce). But everything was devoured.

But the most requested recipe was the pumpkin pie recipe! They had never tasted it before and the just couldn't get enough of it. So, Susan told them the recipe was on the back of the pumpkin can.

So that later that week I took quite a few of them to the local grocery store where each of them I took, bought at least 1 if not 2 CASES!

Once they got home they were going to have their wives make them pumpkin pie.

That year we got not only to share our special meal with them but a large part of our American culture. The Good culture part, sharing and caring for and with others no matter what nationality, color, religion.

May God Bless you and yours the Holiday season.

November 20, 1970

Today is our Wedding Anniversary.

Yes, 37 years, two children, four grandchildren, 2 apartments, one mobile home, and three houses ago, we were married at the Methodist Church in Blue Springs Missouri.

Shannon helped me put together this video that briefly shows Susan's and my journey to this point in our lives.

There were a lot of songs to choose from, but I felt that the two I chose best expressed my love and life with Susan.

I wish her a Happy Anniversary with all my heart and love.

Home

Got home yesterday morning.

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More tomorrow......