Neaksis, AJ got you a sample thing for your bathroom. It's in a bag....somewhere. In the front area, maybe?

Today's awwwwww moment: while the baby slept next to AJ, the Dervish kept pulling out its feet and looking at them, because they were so tyoot. "I never see baby feet afore..."

Time for a commune update.

Maybe, just maybe it won't be Montana after all.

How do y'all feel about Oklahoma?

This is not entirely out of the blue. (A pun, you will see.) Ever since our anniversary trip to St. Louis, AJ has had his eye set on the flight missionary program. We met the head of Adventist World Aviation, & AJ spent a long time talking with him, then went back several more times while I was busy (not) signing books.

I forgot, but he had already gotten his flight books back in March, but he threw himself back into studying after that, and began taking sporadic flight lessons as soon as he was working enough to be able to afford them once in a while. Once in a great while.

Moving to Montana certainly didn't mean he was giving up on this, and he was going to find an airport out there where he could continue his flight lessons.

A few days ago I started thinking that maybe we should at least give OK a cyber-glance, since that is where his tribe is from, and a few days ago he started thinking that, as long as we were moving anyway, it might not hurt to investigate the area of OK near the training facility, praying all the while.

There are some nice houses, not quite as nice or as big as the Plentywood ones, but cheaper to make up for it. Oh, it is in Blackwell, a tiny town but bigger than Plentywood. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

The tornados would be a downside for some of us, and a drawing card for others. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

Nothing is for sure right now, but we will have to decide something soon, as we would be going - somewhere ??? - to look at houses in about 1 1/2-2 weeks. I don't care one way or the other; I just want SOMETHING to be for sure.

Well, I must go feed Neaksis' oldest (she is having an overnight respite), so that when he tells her I didn't feed him, it will be a lie. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

If I have time later, I will post a few links for houses.

Are you sure you don't want to come to Texas?

Texas is nice, but it's just so big! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Houses and land are cheap, cheap, cheap in the Hill Country, tho...and you'd have a built in baby sitter...ME!

*smooch* since they don't have a smoochy emoticon.

In OK, at least we'd be closer than now.

Do they have tornados in the hill country?????

Honey...if you are in the middle strip of the US, they've got tornados.

It's something you live with, kwim? I've lived in Texas all my life and have never seen one....but am always prepared. It's like living at the coast...you are prepped for a hurricane. Or Cali, you know what to do when the ground starts shakin (and if truth be told, I think that's a helluva lot scarier than a twister any ol'day!).

We've been having lots of small tornados in Cali.

I saw my very first funnel cloud a few weeks ago.

>I saw my very first funnel cloud a few weeks ago.

You're one up on me, and I've lived here for 35 years.

<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

So much for Texas Tornados! Nanny nanny boo boo. I mean, I'm so sorry for you.

Dealan-de, where in the Hill Country are you? I'm originally from New Braunfels.

My best friend and his wife are pastors of a small church there and have asked us to come down and be their youth pastors.

We're seriously thinking about it and really want to do it. We need to get this family straightened out first.


FN

SAT....You'd have a built in babysitter 4sure, 4thNail! I'm just a sneeze away.

>We need to get this family straightened out first.

Ask God. Sometimes the straightening happens in the process of the move. God'll tell you what's right.

4N, your last comment made me realize that some progress has actually sneaked up on me unawares.

While I have thought the flight thing sounded like a good idea generally since I first heard about it, even a couple of months ago I would have been unwilling to make any type of long-term commitment in the here and now. Mostly because it would have meant I actually believed he was staying with me, and not going back. And believed it enough to live like I believed it.

I'm still nowhere near the point where I would be comfortable renewing our vows (if we ever do), but this is still a good sign that things are going the right direction.

Here is the house I like best so far. It is $47,000 with 1 1/2 stories, and also has a carriage house with upstairs apartment.

Sadly, no properties with much in the way of land have turned up in our price range, but with no house payment or interest it would be easier to save up.

Oh I like!

So does Neaksis. I see either either a mud or arm wrestling contest coming up soon!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Believer, do you want the carriage house, or are you looking for something bigger? And perhaps just a tiny bit farther away from the Dervish...and his 2 older siblings, Weather Disturbance and the Storm?

t&l

Did you ever stop to think that maybe we're boring people, and that's why we keep sliding off the edge of the abyss?

My vote says it's because some of us can't type fast enough, and the rest of us work too much.


1. I enjoyed the last day in Hawaii story. It sounds like most of our trips. I am not the one everyone looks for either.

2. You just can't get good pineaple on the mainland. I know why you brought some home. We had a field in front of our house on Molokai, and we could get as many as we wanted, as often as we wanted. We even had official permission from Dole to do so. I don't think I ever got tired of GOOD pineapple. Agahhh, first Kimmhy and Weaver, and J make me hungry, now I'm doing it to myself.

4. For Neak -
I like the house, but if you could find one with a cement blockhouse with a steel door, and bars on the windows in the back yard, it might be a big plus.

5. Hi T&L,
I hope you have been well, that life is calm and serene, and that all the debt is paid by now. If not, WHY SHOULD YOU BE ANY DIFFERENT THAN THE REST OF US???

6. Hi Believer.
OK, Hi everyone. Despite my lines above to T&L, life is good. I woke up this morning, and I thought I was dead. I asked my W "Am I still here, can you see me? "
She said "What are you talking about?"

(side note, she asks me that quite often)

I told her I thought I might be dead, because I woke up and couldn't feel anything.
"Couldn't feel anything?" she said.
"No," I said, "I woke up and nothing hurt, so I figured I better check and see if I had passed away in the night."

7. Neak, how are the fears coming? If you don't water them, sometimes they will dry up and blow away.
It looks like the pull to get away is very strong. What do you feel when you pray about it?


3. Hi Neaksis. You are not forgotton.


SS

Yeah, especially if she and her husband got the part with the steel door and the bars on the windows--to keep the children out, of course...and give Mama and Daddy some <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> privacy <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />, too, no doubt. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

Welcome back from your trip. Hope you had a good time.

t&l

Welcome back from your trip. Hope you had a good time.

It was work, ......... but then, it's better than no job, and no income.

I need a rest, but probably won't get one until our anniversery trip in March.

T&L,
Do you ever get enough sleep?

How's your health now? After the problems of last fall?

I thought a lot while I was traveling. I understand your feelings about now wanting to talk about some things. Remember that Abraham and Sara had given up, and when the angels came, they didn't believe them at first.

I'll continue this later.

SS