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RE: Hunting for churches - 1/14/2008 6:02:23 PM
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I am so stinkin' excited!  The church that Erick applied for that I mentioned in my last post contacted us already, and we're supposed to go down there Wednesday to meet the Chairman of the Board and his wife and have an interview! He actually e-mailed last night, and then called me just about an hour ago. I've been dancing around the house for the last hour and the kids think I'm out of my mind.  They want to arrange a time for him to come candidate.
The man I talked to seems really nice. He was telling us how one of the other board members had been saying all along that the next pastor should have three children. They looked at several candidates that had no children, some that had one, and one that had two, but when they saw our picture they said, "Woah!" He said they love children, and they have a big rope swing behind the church. It's just a country church, way out in the middle of nowhere. It sounds so wonderful it's hard to believe. They even pay moving expenses! I'm just overwhelmed.
Please pray that if this is where we are supposed to be that we will be voted in. If not, pray that God shows us where we are supposed to go. I want God's will more than anything, and as much as right now I want this to be God's will, if it's not, I would rather find where God's will is and go there.
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RE: Hunting for churches - 1/16/2008 8:34:45 PM
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The interview went really well. It took us longer to get there than we thought, and the time just flew by. It felt like we were there for a couple of hours, but it was nearly four hours. We had been planning on going to church tonight, but we didn't leave in time for that.
The parsonage is actually a double wide trailer with a basement. It's big enough, though, and has a hill down the back with a little tiny creek that goes along the back of the property, with a small cemetery behind that. There's woods all around. It looks like a wonderful place for the kids to play.
The church is an old fashioned country church, built in the mid 1800's. There's a newer addition they just finished a year or so ago, with two bathrooms and another classroom. There's an office, a sanctuary with yellow padded pews and orange carpet, a prayer room, and a basement with Missionette colors painted on the walls. There's also an old bell out front--one that I'm sure Jay will climb to ring as soon as he gets the chance. 
The man we met with and his wife are both very nice people. They made us feel so welcome. I don't think Erick's going to be very nervous preaching at all after meeting them! We are going down again in a week and a half to candidate. He'll be preaching both services, and then we're going to pray about it and if we feel that this is where God has called us, then they'll vote on us.
It's a small church--22 members, about thirty attenders altogether--but I think it could grow. It's been 60 or more in the past and I don't see any reason why it couldn't be again. There aren't very many children, though. If we get this church, I'm going to need to find a way to provide some social contact for the kids. I'll have to find out if there are any homeschool groups that have co-ops or something. Of course we'll also be involved in 4-H, but that's not a year-round thing they can have friend at normally.
On the way back we decided to stop and get a phone card and try to call my parents (who were watching the kids) to let them know that we were going to be later than we thought, and that we weren't going to be going to church, and that they could get some spaghetti from the house if they needed to feed the kids. Erick decided to be funny and tell my dad that the truck had broken down in Terre Haute and that we were stranded.  Funny guy. My dad was buying it, too, until I yelled over Erick's shoulder to not believe him.
We also tried to call the church and let them know we weren't going to be there, but no one picked up and it went to the daycare. We tried to tell the lady to give a message to the children's pastor, but she must have had a real hard time hearing us. I only had a minute left on the phone card (those pay phones really use the minutes!) and she kept saying, "Who is this? Lucas? Okay, I'll tell them!" while I was yelling, "Luper! Not Lucas!" Oh well. They can't say we didn't try.
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Goodbye to Pippin - 1/24/2008 12:55:45 PM
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Today we gave Pippin, our dog, away. We've had him since he was a puppy, and he's grown into a big, strapping dog. He's been a good dog, most of the time, but he had a habit of getting loose and getting into the chicken pen. There's another dog in town that just runs loose, and they would get into all sorts of mischief together. Pippin never actually killed any chickens, but he did like to trap them and not let them go, and occasionally chew on their necks.
If we get the church in Hymera, we'd be able to take pets, but we've talked about letting our chickens free range. It wouldn't be a good idea to do that if we still had Pippin. We'd talked about what to do with him, though. It's difficult to find someone to take a big dog, especially a mixed breed. We don't have an animal shelter in our area, so that wasn't really an option, either.
I posted him on Freecycle yesterday, on the off chance that someone might want him.
Here's what I posted:
OFFER: Canine recreation and nutrition center *
I have a dog house to give away, plus a chain and anchor, a dog bowl, a leash, a collar, a bottle of dog shampoo, and a partial bag of dry dog food to give away.
* dog included
(Husky mix, 2 years old.)
I thought it would be funny, anyway.  I wasn't really holding my breath for any replies. The week before I had posted a laptop, and had a ton of replies. I was beginning to think I should have posted them together as a lot. (Free laptop. Comes with dog.)
Amazingly enough, someone actually replied to it, and an elderly gentleman came and picked him up today. He lives out in the country and can let Pippin run free if he wants. I'm so glad. I think Pippin will really enjoy being able to run around. We couldn't let him do that here.
In a way, it reminded me of how when God called us to move to Missouri so Erick could to to Bible College and we had a pregnant cat. We knew we wouldn't be able to take the cat, and we mentioned to each other that God was going to have to find a way for us to give away the cat if we were going to go. We were able to find a home for the pregnant cat, too. God doesn't overlook even the smallest details in our lives.
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Almost there... - 1/27/2008 5:32:45 AM
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In half an hour we leave to candidate at Shiloh Assembly. This has been the slowest week of my life! Seriously, it's worse than Christmas! Last night I could hardly sleep I was so excited. Not nervous, just excited. I kept dreaming we slept late, the alarm didn't go off, we were two hours late leaving, I couldn't find anything to wear (anything! I ended up wearing jeans!) and I couldn't get my hair right, and Erick was playing computer games and wouldn't get off. Every time I woke up to look at the clock, only a half hour had passed.
But it's morning, finally, and we're leaving in a half hour. No, twenty-five minutes now! I'm almost ready to go. Erick's taking up the whole bathroom shaving (small bathroom) and there's no room for me, so that's why I"m wasting five minutes here.
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Candidating - 1/28/2008 9:05:35 AM
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We had such an amazingly wonderfuly day yesterday. It was long and tiring, but it was so worth it. We managed to leave almost on time with very few complications and it took about 3 1/2 hours to get there. We were about ten minutes late for Sunday School.
On the way, I took a drink of water out of Erick's water bottle and didn't screw the top on well enough when I put it back down on the floor. It spilled all over his sermon notes and so I spent the next fifteen minutes or so holding them in front of the heater vent in the van trying to dry them out. I also accidentally ripped my dress when I stepped backwards out the van from unbuckling Timothy when I got there. It wasn't too bad--just made the slit in the back a little longer than I wanted. I didn't have time to fix it before the service.
I sang my solo from the Messiah, and I was incredibly nervous all of a sudden. Erick thought it was funny, since I've sang it so many times before, but I think the reason I was so nervous had to do with the fact that I didn't have my book in front of me.
He preached and I thought he did really well. He preached on "Hearing from God." After church, we had a potluck dinner (Erick brought his famous chocolate orange pies) and then we talked with the board for awhile.
We went and saw the parsonage again. The kids loved it. They had so much fun with some of the other kids that were there (not many, but a few) and they roamed all over and got their shoes all muddy. They went to the evening service in their socks or barefooted, because their shoes were all lined up in a muddy row in the foyer.
Erick preached the evening service, too--an introduction to the gospel of John. He's planning on preaching the whole series if they vote him in.
Then they all came around us and annointed us with oil and prayed for us. It was such a beautiful time. The people in the church are all so wonderful, and we've fallen in love with them already.
They are going to wait a few days, and they want us to pray and see where the Lord directs us, and then we are supposed to call them back and let them know, and then next Sunday morning if we give the go-ahead, they will vote on us.
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Crayon smoking - 2/1/2008 12:20:06 PM
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I just ate an apple! I haven't had an apple in a long time, not a fresh one by itself. I've had them in apple crisp and things, but I've just never really liked apples. The kids love them, though, and I bought them for lunch. Actually, we were supposed to have gone on a field trip today, but it snowed and we had to cancel.  So I had planned sandwiches and apples for lunch, since they would be easy to pack.
I don't like sandwiches or apples personally, and since we were home I took the last of the leftover Biscuit-Topped Italian Casserole that was in the fridge. It tasted like crayons. So when the kids brought me an apple, I was grateful to eat it to get the crayon taste out my mouth.
See, last Monday (or it might have been Tuesday) I got the bright idea to take all the broken crayons and peel them and melt them in muffin tins to make multi-colored crayons. We'd done that a couple of times when I was a kid. It took a long time to peel the crayons, because we had a lot of them. I put them in the oven to melt, and then came in here to check forums.
After awhile, Jay came in and told me they were melted, so I got up to take them out of the oven. He decided to beat me to it, and ran in there and started to take them out. Just as I walked into the kitchen, he was pulling out a pan and it tipped, spilling melted crayon all over the bottom of the oven, and all over the floor.  I was not a happy camper. He spent the next hour scraping crayon off of everything. When I went to fix supper (the aforementioned Biscuit Topped Italian Casserole) the oven filled with a cloud of crayon smoke. I tried to let it burn off the best I could, but the food still came out with a distinctive flavor of crayons. It's kind of like hickory smoked, only using crayons instead.
There were a lot of leftovers, and I've sent them with Erick every day this week. He'll be happy to know I ate the rest of them today and he won't have to eat them tomorrow. Maybe I'll pack him a sandwich.
At least crayons are non-toxic.
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RE: Yay! - 2/7/2008 7:54:21 AM
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It's finally starting to sink in that we're moving in a week and a half. I've been packing up all of our things into boxes this week, so it's finally starting to feel real. I'm sitting here surrounded by boxes of books. Pretty soon we're going to take apart this computer desk and throw it away (it's in pretty bad shape from being moved too many times) and move the computer to a table or something for a few days. I'm not ready to pack that up just yet! Lol!
Erick put in his 2-week notice on Monday. He'll work through the 16th. The 17th will be our last Sunday at our church here, and then we're going to drive down with all of our stuff on the 18th. We'll unload, and then go back up here again and leave the kids at Erick's parents' house for a few days, and then come back here and finish fixing up this house. The owners have been so kind to let us stay here for a lot longer than we had intended on staying, and we just want to leave this house looking nice for them. They have blessed us so much, and we want to be a blessing to them as well. Everything's going to have a fresh coat of paint. We're working now on finishing up the hallway and stairway, which needs to be drywalled in. When we're done I'll post a few before and after pictures.
Then after that, we have a new pastor's meeting at the district on the Thursday of the week after we leave, and then we have to be at our new church on that Sunday for Erick's installation service. The District Superintendent will preach that service. I think it sounds kind of funny to be installed, like a computer program or something. Erick said it made him think of installing windows or doors. Then he'll preach the evening service. Thankfully, he already has half the sermon written for that one, since he won't have much free time to prepare!
I praise God for His timing and His goodness. His ways are perfect. Praise the Lord!
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Timothy - 2/8/2008 7:06:00 AM
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Timothy is so cute. He got up this morning in his red pajamas, one eye squinted shut because his eyes hadn't adjusted to the light yet. I told him to go use the bathroom before breakfast, and he got his stool first and climbed up on it and turned off the bathroom light first. I guess it was easier on his eyes to use the restroom in the dark.
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RE: Timothy - 2/8/2008 9:56:52 AM
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Here's a picture of Timothy in a hat I found at a yard sale and his red pajamas.
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RE: Timothy - 2/13/2008 11:31:55 AM
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We are making a lot of progress on getting ready to go. We leave in five more days. Most of our stuff is in boxes, but I still have most of the kitchen to go, plus about half of the clothes to pack. Toys and books are all packed up. I also need to take things off the walls still.
We're suspending math, english, etc. for the next couple of weeks. We're still doing Konos for this week, though. Our co-op group has one more activity we're going to be doing before we leave, which is tomorrow. We're having a fiesta, southwest style, and we're also making it a Valentine's Day party. They made pinatas and stuffed them with valentines and candy. The kids have had to do just about everything on thier own this week, because I've been busy packing up and also we've been drywalling the hallway and stairway. I've told them that this week they have three things to do: Make the pinata, read all the books I checked out from the library about the southwest, and come up with an act for the homeschool talent show. That's Friday.
They has at first wanted to do a pop star routine from Joy's Bella Dancerella she got for Christmas. My little sister wanted to be in it, too. I didn't really care what they did. My mom thought it might not be appropriate, though, so another one of my sisters has helped them learn a ballet dance instead. It's going to be nice. Of course, some of the people there probably still won't be happy with it. I know when we were younger, my sister and I did a ballet dance and some of the others actually left the room because they were offended. Oh well, might as well keep up the tradition and offend them again.
Sunday, my family is throwing a going-away party for us. I hope we have enough time between all these activites to actually move!
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Moving - 2/19/2008 2:53:36 PM
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We moved yesterday. It was quite an adventure, actually. Our plans were to pick up the rental truck at 8:00am and our helpers were arriving at our house at a quarter to 9:00. One of my sisters came over to babysit, and Erick and I drove the car over to the trunk rental place. On the way there, the car was acting funny. We started to wonder if was even going to make it there.
They had told us the pick up time of 8:00. Right before we left he checked the website and they had 9:00 listed. When we got there, the door said they opened at 10:00. We went to Wal-Mart to use the pay phone and called the 1-800 number, and they told us 9:00. We waited around until 9:00, called over there to make sure they were there, and drove back to the truck rental place. On the way, it started snowing really hard--almost a whiteout. I had suggested dropping Erick off there and going back home to let the helpers know we were going to be getting a late start, but with the snow and the way the car was running we decided not to.
At the truck rental place, their computer system was running slow. It was taking several minutes to get from page to page, and they had about six pages they needed to get through. It took a full 45 minutes to check out the truck, but by the time we left, the snow had stopped.
We headed back home. I was following Erick in the car. We had planned to take the highway all the way off, but suddenly he turned off onto a country road. I followed him, not really knowing what he was doing at the time. I guess there was a lot of stopped traffic because of an accident, but I coudln't see it around the big truck.
We get down the road a bit, and all of a sudden I realize I can't seem to accelerate. The car had died. I rolled to a stop, put it in park, and tried to restart it. It woudn't turn over. I tried and tried. Erick turned around and came back for me and we went home.
We gave the keys and title to his brother and told him if he wanted it he was welcome to get it. We just don't have the time to find out what's wrong with it right now. We were two hours late getting a start on loading the truck.
By the time we got to the church, it was around 5:30. One of my sisters came with me, because she has a friend from Terre Haute who wanted to come see her. He came out and helped unload, as did at least half the church. I couldn't believe how many people came out to help us. It was incredible and they had it all done before supper time. They fed us, too. :)
Today we came back to finish up this house. I'm typing with the keyboard on my lap because all of our furntiture is gone. They are going to try and get us internet access at the parsonage, but they are having problems trying to find a provider that services that area.
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RE: Moving - 2/25/2008 10:30:39 AM
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I have internet access again finally. It's really slow, though. I wasn't able to find DSL out here. I'm lucky to have dial-up! I haven't quite got all the quirks figured out of my e-mail yet, but at least I can get on here and blog a bit.
We ended up coming back here on Friday instead of Thursday because of winter storm warnings. The roads were still pretty bad for the first part of the trip on the way down, but at least it was in daylight.
We bought another car before we left, though, since we were around another day. It was one that a couple at our church up there had owned, and it looks like it'll be a good car for us.
Erick also got his new hearing aids Saturday! I hadn't mentioned them in this blog yet, but he had purchased them on Ebay on Valentine's Day. He'd gone in for a hearing test, and it turned out the amount we had saved back for hearing aids ($2000) wasn't going to be enough. We were disappointed and were considering buying just one for him and trying to save up for another later. We were on Ebay and found a pair of really nice ones for $1700, new. These are the kind that are digital and have a remote, and they are a new design that is more comfortable and lets your ears breathe. He's amazed at how much better they work than his old ones that accidentally ended up in the wash. He really enjoyed the service yesterday, being able to really hear and interact with people.
Yesterday was our installation service. The District Superindentant, Pastor Gifford, nearly got lost trying to find us, but he made it in time. It was a really good sermon. He's got a sense of humor, and he can switch back and forth between being funny and being serious pretty quickly. They had a potluck afterwards.
We're pretty busy trying to settle in. I don't know when I'm going to have time to check my 28 unread subscriptions.  I've never had that many to check at once! Forums is just going to have to wait, though. I still have school to teach, and we've got to go over and look at some furniture later on, and we really need to find the library and get some books on the Southern states for school.
It's good to be back, though.
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New co-op group - 2/29/2008 8:04:49 AM
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Yesterday we went to our first homeschool co-op group here. There's a good group that meets in a town about a half hour from here that has about thirty families. They have three classes in the morning and then gym time in the afternoon one day a week. They have classes from nursery up to high school. I took Timothy with me yesterday, but I think next week I'm going to leave him home with Erick. Tim doesn't feel the need to socialize yet. He'd rather just be with mommy or daddy. Besides, that way I can drive the car instead of the van if I'm only taking five kids and myself, and it will be better on gas.
Rachel is taking a class on safety, a Bible class, and tumbling. Abby is taking a money class, a class on favorite stories, and tumbling. Joy and Sarah are taking a drawing class, a music class, and a class learing multiplication facts. Jay is taking the drawing class, Taekwondo, and another art class, this one about drawing portraits.
They are really enjoying making new friends. I'm glad they have a good co-op here. We're also going to be going to our first 4-H meeting here on Monday. We had been talking about doing sports, too, but we might wait on that for awhile. I don't want to get in over our heads until we find out how well we do with this schedule. I'm thinking of getting a part time job, too, although I'm still praying for direction in that area. I want to have a good balance of being involved in things, but not being so busy that we are never home. Eventually I'd like to start taking some classes, too, and I can't do everything at once. There just aren't enough hours in the day for everything I'd like to do.
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Camera - 3/5/2008 3:49:28 PM
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We finally found the cord to the digital camera the other day, so I was able to upload all the pictures on it. I had 95 pictures! I'm really quite surprised the batteries lasted that long. The ones at the end, though, the pictures that we'd finished up of the old house, turned out rather fuzzy. I do have a few pictures I can show you though that my sister took and sent to me. If I had been taking pictures I would have taken different ones, but at least I have something. We also have some on our cell phone, but I don't know how to put them on the computer yet or even if we can. Maybe we'll figure that out eventually. Last time we had a cell phone all we did was call people on it.
Out of the 95 pictures on there, 15 of them were pictures that the kids had taken of some Beanie Buddies that a couple at church gave them, 18 were pictures they had taken of themselves "skating" on the frozen puddle at the old house, 8 were pictures of a picture that Joy drew (I'm displaying one of those below, because it's rather cute) and 10 were other various pictures the kids took. No wonder the batteries were low by the time Erick took the camera back for more pictures of the old house!
I had also taken a lot of pictures of the homeschool talent show, so I'll share one of those here as well, and also a couple of pictures of the installation service.
La dee da, waiting on the photos to upload to Facebook so I can link them here...
Isn't dial-up wonderful?
I think it's faster to load to Facebook instead of Imagecave. Besides, my free account there is starting to get full. Ah! Here we are!
These are pictures of the installation service:
This is the District Superintendent and his wife, and Erick and me.
Below is a picture of Joy, Sarah, Abby, and my littlest sister dancing in the talent show. They were so beautiful and I was so proud of them.
Above is one of the eight pictures Joy had taken of the picture she had drawn. I figured one was enough to show here.
These last four pictures are the ones of the old house after we finished fixing it up.
Me painting trim on a window
The view of a closet. With a chair on it. (Did I mention these weren't the shots I would have taken?)
The view of the livingroom by the front door, at a precarious angle. 
The kitchen sink
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My camera. - 3/10/2008 9:15:57 AM
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My camera is not working properly. It's not focusing right. I thought it was the batteries, but it's not. I put in fresh batteries and now it's giving me a focus error that won't go away and won't let me take pictures anymore. I looked it up in the manual and the solution is to get it fixed. It's only a 2 Mega Pixel camera, though, and nowadays you can get 5 Mega Pixel cameras for less than $50. We're trying to decide if it counts as an emergency so we can take it out of the emergency fund.
In other news, the church board gave us the go-ahead to invite my family down to do Passover for our church, and they also gave me permission to start a choir. There are a lot of good singers in our church. Of course, there probably won't be very many people left to listen to us sing, but there will always be my husband. He's doing a good job, in my opinion, at preaching. I notice each service that he gets better than the last one, at least most of the time. Last night he forgot to highlight his main points in his sermon notes, so that tripped him up a bit. He's gotten a lot more relaxed, and his sermons are well researched. I can tell he's done a lot of work on them during the week. He still struggles with his transitions and putting enough volume into his speaking, but he's getting better. I haven't looked over his sermons lately at all before he preaches. I prefer to listen to them for the first time when he preaches.
I had always wondered what it would be like to have my husband preach, and wondered if I would get fed under him, or learn anything. After all, we talk about the Bible all the time, and generally what he knows about something we've already discussed and so I already know it too. I wondered if I would find his sermons boring because he wouldn't be presenting any information that was new to me. I am quite happy to find that my worries were unfounded. He's doing so much research during the week that when he preaches I am happy to be learning from him after all. I'm so proud of him. He always has done the best he can at no matter what it is doing, and he's always done it well.
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Easter - 3/23/2008 8:14:38 AM
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Good morning! Happy Easter to everyone. It's still early in the morning, just after eight in the morning, but we've already been up for over three hours now. We went to a community sunrise service at the Baptist church this morning. There are (I think) five churches in this town, and they work together really well. I think there might be one Southern Baptist church that doesn't do things with the others, but the Baptist church, the Community church, the Methodist church, and our church have a minister's association and they get together and do community activities regularly.
Erick's part of the service was the reading of the resurrection scriptures. He looked good up there in his gray suit and purple tie. Actually, three out of four of the ministers there were wearing purple ties. Too bad the fourth one didn't get the memo.
It was a nice service and we got to meet a lot of people, and listen to some beautiful music.
At one point in the service, one of the fireman got a call and four men left to go out on a fire run. We paused in the middle of the sermon to pray for their safety. Two of them go to our church. I wonder if they will be back for any of the other services today.
We aren't going anywhere for Easter, since Erick is preaching both services today. I did make cherry cheesecakes for lunch, and we bought some chocolate rabbits for the kids. We still need to give those to them, but after all the candy they had yesterday from two Easter egg hunts (one at the church, one at the school) I keep wondering if maybe we should just keep them and eat them ourselves.
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Old house - 3/30/2008 7:42:14 AM
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I thought I'd take a few minutes and blog about what's been going on with our old house, the one we lived in for the last year and a half.
This is the house owned by the hispanic couple, the one we were living in rent-free in exchange for fixing the place up after the accident where the van went through the side of their house.
Last Monday, the owner came back to check on some things and he couldn't get in. The locks had been changed, and so his key didn't work. There were orange stickers on the house that said, "THIS PROPERTY WAS FOUND VACANT AND (in accordance with mortgage agreement, H.U.D. or V.A. guidelines) HAS BEEN SECURED". A.P.P. 3/21/08 Winterized--Yes."
The owner went to my dad's house and got him, and they went back over there. They knew that the back window was unlocked, because they'd used that way to get in before if they didn't have the key. It was still unlocked--as a matter of fact, it was wide open. They crawled through the window and looked around. The basement door was open and the light was on, and the back door was unlocked as well. In hindsight, they think now someone may have actually been in the house at the time, but they don't know for sure.
They left the house, thinking that the people that secured it were gone, and called the police to make a report. When they got back to the house next (I think Dad said it was the next day) the house was completely sealed up. The windows, the back door, everything that was not secure earlier was now secure.
The owners bought the house on contract several years ago and paid it off in a few years. They have the deed, and there are no liens against the house. They have paid their property taxes, and there is no reason this house should have been secured. The deputy sherrif that is helping them with the investigation double checked all records and verified that there is no legal action against the house. After speaking with an attorney, he told the owner that he has the right to break back in and reposses his own house.
He was going to go in yesterday, but he didn't show up. He may have slept the day away, since he worked all night the night before.
Some of the advocacy groups my dad talked to think it may have been bootleggers, trying to steal the house. They said sometimes they will take over a house like that and try and intimidate the owners or try to extort money from them by making them think they owe them money for a bad debt or something. I didn't know it was possible to steal a house, but it looks like that may be what's going on. The deputy sheriff also said that it very possible it's a hate crime, because they are hispanic.
What's scary is that it appears they were just waiting for us to move out. We were gone a month before they came and took over. I don't know if they knew the owners, or if they are from the area, or how long they've been watching this place. There's a possibility it was only a mistake, but most of the people involved seem to think it was deliberate. They left no contact information or paper trail, and no one (banks, title company, realtors) are admitting to knowing anything about this.
The newspaper is investigating this as well. I'll post a link when it comes out. I will also post any further updates I find out about this.
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RE: Old house - 4/2/2008 12:03:43 PM
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Just a quick update: the owner of the house broke into it Sunday and changed the locks. As far as I know, no one has been back to the house since.
In other news, on Monday someone stole our license plates off our car. Erick was at Walmart when it happened. I can't imagine why someone would steal license plates right in front of everyone like that. The license branch is closed on Mondays, so we had to wait until yesterday to do anything about it. Since they expired in June anyway we went ahead and just got new ones. While we were at it, we got our driver's licenses changed over and registered to vote. I didn't think they'd have to take a new picture and I wasn't exactly prepared to have my picture taken. Let's just say I liked my old one a lot better.
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