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A House

Well, i said before that i was going camping. But our plans have changed a little, and we just got the final word back on an agreement to buy a small house near our childhood homes in San Jacinto Co. I'll post pictures later. It's just a little 30 x 30 slab with walls and a roof and walled off bathroom. It has running water, a working septic, and electricity! We couldn't be happier. Perhaps today we will purchase our mailbox! That's the news for today! Pictures later!

Let us back up a bit...

I have a new adventure, but please allow me to precursor with some foreknowledge that i haven't gotten to in the childhood lifestory stream. The summer after my sophomore year in highschool, we moved away from the Coldspring Texas highschool area.....to New Mexico. I can tell you more about that later, but the important thing is this: this move was probably...well definitely the most distressing for me of all of our moves. I left behind a lot of close friends and a wonderful comfort zone. Soon after our move and the beginnings of kind of adark depression for me, i remember something burning in my heart that i could not shake. I also remember being in tears and full of passion trying to explain to my dad that i "have to go back there some day. i just know it!" This is a message that has always seemed to me a message from God. The desire and the passion was so strong that it felt like God's speaking destiny through my own lips to myself. Now skip ahead to the n

A New Adventure

Up until now, i have written mostly about my childhood. But now, i and my husband are embarking on a new adventure, and this blog will be morphing a bit, to include the present and the past. Hope you enjoy the reading. Today is my last day at work. Where am i going? I'm going camping. What am i going to do? I'm going to watch my husband build a house. What will i camp in? A tent. Say again. A tent. We're really going camping. Stay tuned.