What day is it?

Today I am exhausted. I find I need to check a calendar or newspaper to remember what day of the week it is. We continue to be under a boil water advisory - so we are using all that bottled water I had hoarded. Today we had a bit of normalcy..... trip to the orthodontist with the girls. Having to sign the financial papers for Heather's second phase seemed a bit of bad timing - but a necessity I know for their office.

Yesterday I was on the phone with our insurance adjuster - one of many I will speak to I am sure. Although I had initially had difficulty getting through, they held true to their promise to call back in 24 hours. That was the good news. The bad news is that fences are not covered by our policy. The other bad news is that our deductible is "per incidence". Since we already had an "incident" from the Mother's day hail storm this was not welcome news. The adjuster said that if they can "relate" our water damage to the roof needing replacing from the hailstorm that deductible will be met. In the short term we just wait for the inspector to look at the house, they send in a report, then another adjuster will go over it with me. I think it would be foolish to pray that AAA out of the goodness of their hearts would cover fences after all. In the meantime, Robert is trying to figure out how hard it would be to install a fence.

Our church is still without power and sustained significant water damage. Can't tell much more until the lights go on. We will be having a service on Sunday - Robert is off buying plywood so we can make a sign to display in front of the church to communicate that. CORE (which helped in Katrina relief) is up and running again joining together churches. We have teams that meet at the church every morning at 8:30 to go out and help. I think that will change to every Saturday morning as people go back to work. I guess some outside groups are now beginning to come and help - there is so much to do. We are still thankful to have power. There is a rumor in our area that full power might not be restored for 3-4 more weeks. Generator sales are brisk.

And the true answer to prayer - it is still cool here. All our windows are open. The over 10,000 electrical workers do not have to battle Houston heat and humidity and people without power are not sweltering. Truly a blessing.