Today I am thankful for propane and electricity. Most days I tend to take those things for granted. Today I am thankful I have access to both. It is very cold here in Blaine. The high of 27′ and an expected low of 16′ tonight means a very cold motor home without propane and/or electricity. We usually just heat the motor home with a small electric heater. We actually have two but we can only run one at a time. So during the day when we are up and about we run the heater in the living room facing it towards the kitchen. When we go to bed, we turn the one in the living room off and turn the one on in the middle of the rig and face it towards the bedroom.
We usually use the propane furnace to just take the chill off first thing in the morning and when we come home from being gone for any period of time. Well, since Saturday we have been running the furnace quite a bit. Our plan was to fill the propane tank when we left to go sell Christmas trees. Saturday I happened to check the level and it was getting down into the top of the red so Ron made a trip to the storage unit to get our little propane tank (like one used on a gas grill). I am so thankful he did because when he came home from Ferndale earlier today we had totally run out of propane out of the tank in the motor home. He quickly hooked up the little tank and made it all toasty in here.
With the weather as cold as it has been the little electric heaters just can’t keep the motor home warm.
Thank you Lord for the men who invented the use of electricity and how to make propane. Thank you Lord too, for a husband who is handy and knows how to switch out tanks.
Selling Christmas Trees ~~~
We are going to be selling Christmas trees for Noel’s Christmas Trees at the Aurora Marketplace Safeway parking lot. The address is 23632 Highway 99, Edmonds, WA. You take exit 179 off of I5 and go west on 220th. Go to Highway 99 and turn left. (I think it is the 3rd or 4th stoplight.) The parking lot for Safeway is on the right about 2 1/2 miles from 220th. We are in the corner. You won’t be able to miss us. Our hours start on Wednesday, November 24th and go thru December 24th at 5:00 p.m. Monday thru Friday the hours are 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., Saturday 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. and Sunday’s 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
One of us will always be there as we are also on duty all night – for security.
If you are in the area we would love to have you stop and see us, check out the trees and if it works for you to buy one. We plan to have coffee and hot chocolate going. I know if this cold weather continues we will definitely need the warm drinks to keep us going. Though I have told Ron I may have to go to Starbucks, inside Safeway, once in awhile 🙂
Prayer requests ~
1. Please pray for our friends Kenny & Tammy. Tammy is having a radical double mastectomy on the 9th of December. Please pray for clarity for Kenny and Tammy regarding treatment and for the doctors who are treating her. Please also pray for others to be able to physically near them to walk hand in hand with them to doctor appointments.
2. For safety for Ron and I as we travel to Edmonds tomorrow. We are in the midst of a very cold and blustery storm. Snow and ice are prevalent throughout the area. We had our 16′ flatbed trailer for sale so that we could purchase a tow bar setup for the Jeep but the trailer did not sell. We have made the decision to tow the Jeep on the trailer. This means we are going to be almost 60 feet long on the road. This means extra stress on Ron as he will do the driving this trip. I have not ever pulled a trailer with the motor home and in winter weather I am not going to learn.
3. For our boys and their families as this will be the first year we will not be with at least one of them for both the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. I guess also pray for us to not be missing them too much.
4. For Theresa as she has had her final surgery for her breast cancer and is now recovering and the healing process is going slow. Pray that she will be patient with herself and follow the doctor’s orders. Pray also for Rick as he stands by her and supports her during this recovery time.
I will check in with all of you tomorrow night once we are settled at the Christmas tree lot. They are supposed to have power to the lot no later than Wednesday – we are praying it will be ready for us when we arrive tomorrow, especially with this brrrr chilly weather.
Life with us ~ The Wandering Workentins 
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