Thank You Lord For Something New!!!!Th

 This afternoon I lost all patience with our old couch. It is scratched and the springs have given out completely on one end, and are separating now on the other.  It was damaged when it arrived from the factory over six years ago: the fork lift on the loader had pierced the delivery box and gone right through into the bottom half of the couch when it loaded it into the truck to bring to our place. Trying to prove the company had caused the damage was going to be more trouble than it was worth, so my Mr. Fix It husband invented a way to repair the damage and restitch the upholstery, never thinking the couch would last this long. Yay, it did! 

Today I was in so much pain, again, with my hip hardware after sitting on that couch for less than an hour that I decided it had to go out...be gone....leave! My husband agreed and ten minutes later we were off to our favourite furniture store to place an order. The new couch  is similar is style and has the same colour and upholstery, so it will fit right in with our remaining living room furniture. It also has a different spring system that should last even longer than the first one. It is slightly shorter and less bulky, so it will be easy to move next spring and will fit well into whatever downsized suite we end up in. Yay, again! 

The price is right too and it should arrive from Vancouver in a month or less. So, once again yay!!!

I had some computer issues yesterday so my husband spent most of the day scanning, trouble shooting and repairing the problems. I changed all my passwords and started a new spreadsheet to keep better track of some things I am doing online. So, we have had a productive day! Y.A.Y.!!!!! Being on holidays means my husband has accomplished all sorts of house and personal chores that have been on the back burner for months due to his limited energy. As it sinks in that he only has one more year of work, he is relaxing and enjoying the idea of full retirement.

We received a tax notice today that we are getting some unexpected funding that we are very surprised about. Looking at the information they sent we couldn’t reconcile their numbers with our last year’s income amounts, so we called their office. We were certain a mistake had been made and we did not actually qualify for this lovely surprise bonus. Shockingly we did not have to sit on hold for an hour. The tax assessor answered the phone immediately and checked our filed income tax information. He led us through the formula used by the tax department that arrived at the information we were sent today, and voila! We DO qualify for this bonus!!!!!! The man said we made him feel like Santa Claus because we sounded so surprised and thrilled. We made his day and he made our day!! What an incredible blessing today has been! So thankful are we!