Red Thread To China 2007

Well everything here is about the same. Marcus starts school on Tuesday. Jerry is going to register him tomorrow. I sure hope that he does ok with the transition to the new school.

We leave for Omaha on Friday morning to attend my mother's memorial service. Most of the family could not attend the one in Cali so they have organized another there. We won't be staying long.

Tomorrow the electrician will be out to tell us what we need to get that done. Whenever he gets that done and the water well dug we can move down there. Exciting news.

Jerry almost had to go down to the gulf because of hurricane bean. It is set to hit the coast on Tuesday. But since he is a technician he got out of it. Thank god, if he hadn't everything would have been put on hold. Hopefully there is no change between now and this evening when he gets to come home. He has been gone since Friday morning.

Hi all,

Well it has been 4 months since we recieved our LID. We celebrated as always by eating Chinese today. The wait is getting to me a little, only because of the rumors of a 3 year wait. I can handle 2 years, but 3!!!! I really don't see it coming to that but who knows at this point. We will just have to wait and see. I have kept busy shopping for my secret pal from one of the LID groups I participate in so it makes it a little easier. I hope they like the things I bought.

On a happier note we do have some progress on the house. We have an electric pole set and the electrician will be back monday to put in the breaker box. The water well guy should be here next week too. As soon as we get that in we can move our travel trailer down there close to where the house will be and set everything up. It will be awesome. I can't wait. I don't know what I would do without the support of my family at this time. And now since we have high speed internet I can finally download pictures alot easier.

Anyway thats all for now.

I am such a bad blogger!!!! I haven't been on here in over 2 months. But we have been very busy with selling our house, which we finally signed the papers on last week. One hurdle out of the way. Then the move was not as easy as I thought it would be. Man I have way too much stuff. I had to really downsize alot. And anyone who knows me knows that wasn't an easy task by no means. So we now have 2 storage buildings and our utility trailer filled with all our belongings.
Who would have thought living in a travel trailer would be this much fun......NOT!!!!!!. It is way too small and sometime claustrophobic. But I keep telling myself that it is only temporary.
On the new house front....... We put in for the electricity and they should be setting the pole sometime in the next 2 weeks. Then we can have the well dug and the septic put in. We will have the house plans ordered today. We are going with a company that builds houses out of a product called poly steel. It is basically a concrete wall with foam on the outside. They are very energy efficient and when done you cannot tell. In other words they look just like a regular house, but the energy bills are cut dramatically. My husbands First Sergeant is the owner of the company and that's how we heard about it.

I will post a picture of the house later......which means when I figure out how to. It is a 2 story home that takes me back a little in time. The way it looks reminds me of the older houses in some small towns. I really love it and the potential for extra space later on is so great.

Anyway I guess I better get ready....we are having gravel delivered for our road back to the house this morning. By the way..... clearing land is definitely no fun if anyone was wondering.