First, I want to thank everyone for keeping in contact over the holidays! So good to talk to everyone! Carol & I had a quiet, yet productive Christmas and New Years. Very busy time at work for me, Carol was off for 2 weeks. I know she worked just as hard at home than she does at work! 

We had a new roof put on this week because of high wind damage a couple of weeks ago. So the roof was completed on Wednesday, January 7th. On Thursday evening, after checking on Mom Peters, we smelled something burning in the garage. When I pulled down the attic ladder, Carol said she saw flames!!! I backed the car out and grabbed the garden hose (with sprayer) climbed the ladder and sprayed down the flaming area. After I put the fire out, I pulled out the halogen lamp I was using to put the flooring in. It had fallen from the hook in the overhead when the roof shingles were  being replaced. It fell on house wiring (Romex) and got so hot it burned through the insulation and started a fire in the insulation and caught the joist support on fire also. Carol called 911 and the fire dept. showed up and removed smoldering insulation. The next morning Carol called Cherry Electric and they came right out and replaced all the bad wiring and reset the breakers. Here's a picture of the burned joist:

 

I spent part of the day, Saturday, cleaning up the mess and cutting out the burned section. Then,  I sandwiched new 2 X 4's around the burned section. The read board is 3 feet long for support.

The old wiring looked like this:

 

Anyway, we're glad we were home! And awake! Thank You , Lord for protecting us!!!

Next weekend we'll be in Lincoln City at the Inn At Spanish Head - it's a birthday gift from Carol :)

Write more soon.