Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Day 35, "Every picture has a story"
For sure this picture could have enough stories for a book and a half.  It would start with a decision in August of 1977 to move from Devils Lake to St. Paul.  We hurried to do some things with the house to sell and then drove to St. Paul to look.  2094 Niles was down the street from where we stayed with a family.  The short story is all about how God guided us to this house and then intervened in the loan process so we could purchase it.  We moved into the house in October of 1977.  The next spring we begin to take out the hedge by the picket fence and the the fence itself.  We hardly had a choice as the boys were breaking the pickets to the east and west as they used the fence pickets for soccer goals.  Here Aaron, Travis and John are all involved in the process!  Well I think Aaron is the supervisor on the steps looking at what needs to be done next!  Well, a few of the highlights moving into are:
  • Midwest Federal giving us a loan inspite of us still owning our Devils Lake home.
  • The owners, Tom and Thelma Ruth, allowing us 2 extra days to get the down payment!
  • The owners putting the house on the market after our first request for a loan was denied.  Then, after a new buyer agreed to pay 20% more they turned down that offer to sell it to us.  They said they really liked our family!  I heard later that was VERY uncharacteristic of Tom "for sure"!
  • Moving into the house before it was closed but having to put our HEAVY upright piano in the garage until we closed!
  • In the spring of 1978 we were about ready to drive to ND for Mary/Mark's wedding.  Two days before we were to leave Travis came down with the Chicken Pox.  We gathered in the living room and I said that friends told us if we wrote a check with a desire to God and cashed it God would honor our request.  John asked that Grandpa Lee, who had a broken leg, would not suffer.  Later Grandpa told us that it was wonderful that he had NO pain after his surgery.  Travis wanted the Chicken Pox to go away so he could go to the wedding.  The next day there was NO POX.  Aaron wanted a friend and the next week Caroline knocked on the door.  She lived across the street.  Gail and I wanted our house to sell.  We came back from the wedding on Sunday evening and there was a voice message on our phone.  The reality company had called and a young couple put in an offer on our house and wanted to close in 2 weeks with a cash payment!  All we could say is "God is good"!!!
I played tennis yesterday and played my best yet this season.  I will have to see if that carries through to our match Wednesday.  I am putting Karl and me on court #1 so it will not be easy.

Terry has been getting in her daily walks and is doing so so much better.  It appears that her feet are pretty much back to normal which is GREAT.

Yesterday we went to Walmart to shop for a few things.  We purchased 4 frozen turkeys  but when we got to the check out 2 of them did not have tags on them.  I walked back to get 2 with prices on them.  We checked out and Terry, which she is always so good at, looked at the receipt and we had been over charged.  We purchased several boxes of one item and were charged for one too many.  Then we were charged the normal price, not the sale price on 2 of the turkeys.  We went to the service counter and after about 10 minutes got served and noted that we had been over charged by about $30.  AFTER another 20 minutes or so we were finished but not before we had some thoughts and maybe some words about Walmart!  As we left there must have been 10 people in line.  No way.  Maybe Target next time!

My court time is 9:00 today but I may go over early.  I am still in the mode of hanging around to see if I can pick up some court time with better players.  It will happen but when?  

I finished my breakfast of pork sausage and eggs and then washed it down with FP so I am good to go.

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