There is absolutely no man like mine!

It is 3:36 am Manitoba time. I know NOW that once I get into bed, I will not be coming out of it at 6 am to do what I just blogged about. There is just no way.
It is freezing cold outside. I just came inside, after helping Alvin with the wood boiler. And he is still outside working, in the cold, where he has been since we got home tonight at about 9:15 or so.

My husband, is one of a kind. The only man I know that is a jack of all trades and a master of all of them. There is not one single thing that has broken in our place that he has not been able to fix. He is a builder, a renovator, a fixer.... and that is all on top of being the most incredible husband I could ever have been given. Tonight, there I was, freezing (yep, a little wimpy I am!!) and I did not complain!! And yet, he is still out there, not complaining at all, just doing what he needs to do.

Today he noticed there was a leak in our wood boiler (that heats our house, and Alvin's big shop, with heat that comes through underground water hoses. He spent the good part of the day emptying out enough water, so that he could get to the leak, and hopefully weld it (or something like that). We had a leak last year too, and that was the protocol. Well, we needed to go into the city, and so he did what he could and decided he would have to finish it tomorrow. Well, when we came home, just one look at the temperature in the furnace, and he knew that there was no water circulating. Now, 6 hours later, we have filled and emptied 15 (possibly 18) 5 gallon pails of water.... one small container at a time, through a hose and a funnel. It seemed that nothing worked for him tonight... the little pump he was going to use failed, as did his big flashlight...
But like I said, there was little complaining coming from his lips. Just a few words spoken to indicate that if our lines froze, we were done until spring with this system. The other thing was that because of the water not circulating, there was an air lock in the pipes... not good. It was at that point, that I texted our kids and asked them to pray. And that is exactly what I did on this end as well.
"Lord, I know you are not a vending machine, but could you please unlock the airlock in the hoses... "

Did I expect that God would do it? Yes. Did he owe it to me? No.

Well, That was at about 11:15 or so. I said "God, I know that you can do it, and that you are sovereign over all - even this ..."
Alvin just came in, and I was dreading that perhaps I would have to refill the pails again. But, he ran downstairs to check the lines in the house... and said the machine shed lines were working. Jack of all trades, and master of each one. The lines/the pumps/the boiler is working.

God, thank you.... for answering this prayer. Not because you had to, not because you owed me anything. But because you are sovereign, even over the boiler!

I am heading upstairs to bed... with my husband. Goodnight.