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February Eleventh

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Did you know  February 11th  is National Make A Friend Day? Here is what the Internet tells me about this celebration –

NATIONAL MAKE A FRIEND DAY

Always observed on February 11th, National Make A Friend Day is a fantastic opportunity to meet someone new and make a new friendship. Friends serve a vital role in everyone’s lives. They are one of life’s most valuable assets.

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“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light”  – Helen Keller

New friends can broaden our horizons by helping us to see new perspectives, challenging us to try something different, or connecting us to opportunities. Meeting new people can help sharpen our social skills and keep us from becoming lonely.

 

I’m happy to report that since we are in a new (to us) neighborhood – and have been here for three plus months (as opposed to three plus weeks)  we’ve been celebrating “Make a Friend Day” quite frequently.  While we already knew several couples that live here (there are about 60 dwellings), it’s been a delight to get to know (or get to know better) so many good folk! Gary often joins the ‘guys’ for coffee in the afternoon where they solve the problems of the world (or at least discuss the best place for Texas BBQ), and I’ve enjoyed the weekly Bible Study group and have even found some lovely walking buddies!

So while today may be the National Make A Friend Day, it’s more than that for us. We are full-steam ahead in Make A Friend Season! And it’s been grand!

Thank you, friends, for stopping by!
Steph

 

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Life at Bass Lake Lot 205, SOWER Projects 2018, The Adventure

Some Clarification

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After yesterday’s post about what I’ve been doing lately, I got asked the following question from a SOWER we’d worked with several years ago –
What are you doing with a fully furnished house? Is this your own home wherever your home is? And are you downsizing your rig? Are you preparing to retire?

So – since some of you who drop in here occasionally might have some of the same questions, here is my reply that sorta-kinda describes what these last months have been all about!

Hello! We are in ‘transition’ mode these days! We purchased a house in the sweet RV community behind the SOWER office in Lindale as we prepare for the inevitable ‘what’s next’ stage of our life! But while we’re on our way to retiring from being active SOWERs, we aren’t there yet! Our faithful rig is 22+ years old, and we think she’s ready for retirement even if we are not! So it’s a shift in ministry focus – but praying that the LORD will still use us wherever we might be!

And so this NEW adventure continues…

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But what are YOU doing?

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While Gary’s been busy making trips to Lowes and renovating sewing rooms and building workspaces and redesigning walkways, I’ve been trying to figure out the interior of the house. Some of my angst comes from the fact that this sweet little house came completely furnished. Not just furniture (and there was a lot of that), but it also came with linens, towels, a fully outfitted kitchen, cleaning supplies, soaps, shampoos…you name it, and it was probably here! I do believe that if we had just come with our clothes, we wouldn’t have had to do anything but go grocery shopping to live here quite comfortably.  But of course, we also had a motorhome that was full (and I mean 20 years of stuff full) of our life. It’s been hard for me to figure out how to mesh these two dwellings. Even now, after almost four months, I’m still trying to remember where I put something….or maybe it’s still in the rig?

So for the last couple of weeks, I’ve been trying to bring SOMETHING (or maybe many things) in from the rig, and then find a home for it (them) each day.  Now, it might just be the earrings I wanted to wear that day, but it’s something!

And speaking of earrings – I cut down my earring solution from a couple of years ago to fit in my new space,

and let Amazon help me find a solution for my necklaces.

These are small things, but figuring these small things out has helped me get moving on this transition.

 

Today I brought in my box of Kosher salt.
It’s in the cupboard next to the sugar and flour.
No judging, please!
=)

I wonder what I’ll find to bring in tomorrow…

Steph

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Life at Bass Lake Lot 205, The Adventure

But what is Dad going to do? Part II

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With the She Shed and the He Shed renovations just about wrapped up, Gary moved to the next phase – making his work area more useful! First he needed to make a solid work surface for his ongoing projects!
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(That’s Lizzie parked outside of our RV cover. Our neighbor who owns the lot next to ours let us park Lizzie there while we were getting started on these renovations. We have the best neighbors!)
Next up he tackled the walkways – upgrading from concrete pavers
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to a wooden walkway.
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This also involved new steps –
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And although I have used those stairs regularly for the last two months – I don’t seem to have taken any pictures. But they’ll show up in some future posts. Because you know he isn’t done yet!
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The adventure continues…
Steph

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And just like that – it’s February!!

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Whew! Where did January go? I’ve been thinking that this is the first February in twenty years that we haven’t been working at a SOWER project, but when I did a little checking, turns out I was wrong! We were in Florida twenty years ago and we were about to have our long anticipated Disney World vacation with our whole family!!

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We were a much smaller group those days! And while the memories are sweet, I don’t recommend taking a two year old on a Disney vacation! And that’s your travel tip for the month!

But here we are in East Texas, where it was in the 20’s last week and is expected to be in the 70’s the next two days (at least!). Our adjustment to house-life continues, so watch for more installments on the “What’s Dad going to do?” question and more musings on this new life of ours! And trying to figure out where this blog is going!

Have a blessed Lord’s Day tomorrow!
Steph

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