Tonight I had to figure out how to replace a water damaged kitchen cabinet back panel. Last week we had a fizzy drink break in the kitchen cabinet and we didn’t find it until the next morning, by which time the MDF-Melamine back panel had soaked up a lot of the liquid and become quite water logged.

We were not able to figure out how to dry the MDF-Melamine (I’m convinced it’s not possible) so I set out to replace the back water damaged panel.

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On our About Page on this site I have written a little bit about what we do as full-time volunteers in Youth With A Mission (YWAM), but I have never actually written all that much about it.

Last weekend was my 30th birthday and we are looking at my 30th year to be a significant one for us in ministry. It’s exciting to look ahead and see some of what God has planned for us.

You can read more about what we do at 2007.billandtamara.com, which is a web-site that we set-up to help us raise prayer and financial support for this new year, and keep people updated on what we are doing…

Last week I did a bit of late night painting on the posts and banisters out the front of our house. Almost as soon as I was finished it started to rain, which had me really worried about the paint (it was an undercoat) running off.

Thankfully the paint didn’t wash off, but seeing as how it was 11:45 at night when I finished I did miss one of the shorter posts, and a bit under the handrail. I also had a few streaks on the last post that I did, but I’m not sure if that was the rain or the fatigue that caused that one…

Well, it’s 11:45 pm and I just got inside from putting an undercoat on all the steel posts on our front stairs. Do you want to know what it started to do as I was cleaning up the paint brush?

It started to rain!!!

I guess it figures that would happen with all the luck that we are having with our house, but it is still frustrating.

So why was I painting this late at night anyways?

1. It was cooler then in the day. That is relative though as it was still about 28C (83F), but cooler then the day and no chance of sun burn.
2. Tamara and I watched “March of the Penguins” while the kids napped in the afternoon, which is my usual time for working on the house.
3. It just needed to get done.

The centre flight of stairs is still not actually complete, but I think that if I wait until the builder actually gets that up to council regulations then I will be waiting for a very long time…