Category: Unrelated News

Obviously I have not posted much here the last two years. My routine has changed, but I haven’t gotten my blogging worked back into the new schedule. There was a time when I would get all my writing done at night before going to bed. But with schedule changes that has been harder to do. So I am going to try a morning writing routine.

Where Are We?

We moved back from Argentina at the end of 2011. I have been working in our mission board office since then. That does not mean I am stuck within the 4 walls of the office. Since I posted about going to Ethiopia last year, I have been in Costa Rica and Mexico. The Costa Rica trip was to visit one of our missionaries working with the Deaf. The whole family made the trip to Mexico for 3 months. It was great to be back with all our old friends.

Writing

I am still writing for What Christians Want to Know. As with this site, my writing schedule has gotten turned upside down with having real office hours. You would think that regular hours would afford me structured time to write, but I have other responsibilities that keep me occupied in the office.

IT Guy

The IT man at our office took a job in another state. I was working as his assistant in the office while he came in as necessary. But now that he is not able to visit physically, I have taken over the responsibilities completely. I am still spending quite a bit of time getting my head wrapped around everything, but I think I am figuring most of it out.

Hopefully I won’t be as much of a stranger in these parts.

While we are not in Kentucky or West Virginia, we are close enough that we can go barefooted all the time. We completed the move to East Tennessee last week. We moved up here to be closer to our mission board office where I will be working as our home base.

Since we got here last week we have looked at several houses to potentially buy. There is one that has stood out. The price is a little high, but there are a couple of problems with the house and sellers that may drive the price down significantly. The house is within the area we want to live and has all the amenities we wanted. We just can’t pay the asking price.

That may be a moot point as we found out last night that foreclosure proceedings have already started. That means they can’t sell it at any price at this point. We will have to deal with the bank unless a couple of big hurdles get knocked over.

While it sounds like a mess, it really is a position I like to be in. The decision is not ours at this point. The bank has to process the house and deal with it in one of a couple of different ways. It depends on how everything falls together over the next three weeks that will determine if we can buy the house. If it doesn’t go in our favor, then we will take it as a sign that this was not the house for us.

While looking for a house to buy, we have a friend in the church who is letting us rent his house for a reasonable price without any obligations. If we stay a year, that is fine. If we move out next week, that is acceptable as well.

We won’t be doing our normal traveling until the end of October. We will be in town over the next few weeks to deal with everything that is necessary with buying a house.

Exciting times!

Tonight we walked by a lady’s house who has 18 cats. Our 7-year-old daughter said that she wants cats when she grows up. My wife, who is allergic to cats, told our daughter that she could have all the cats she wanted when she got older.

I said, “But remember, Mommy is allergic to cats. If you have a bunch of cats that means Mommy can’t come and visit you at your house.”

Without even thinking about it she said, “That’s OK. Daddy can come and visit.”